I enjoyed reading Judy Hirst's A Kind of Sleepwalking, a gentle, yet provocative challenge against sleepwalking through life. She reminds us that bad stuff happens - "Suffering arrives, shattering and unravelling our world: jolting us awake. This is an awful, painful place, yet somehow we need to be able to recognise that it is at these moments when we can in fact move forward, but it is difficult because in pain we struggle to find the capacity to deal with what is happening."
With a mix of reflecting on life and Scripture, we are helped to think about what really matters - "We have limited control over the circumstances of our lives and that is the hard truth. What we do have, though, is the choice in every circumstance of suffering to shape our attitude to it; to hand it over to God or to withhold it from him. To trust him with it or to give up hope."
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