Resilient by John Eldredge

The human soul has a built-in yearning for joy and beauty and all good things. But that craving for life has taken a real beating in the last few years.

Join New York Times bestselling author John Eldredge, in this Christian Counseling book, as he gives you the tools you need to follow Jesus' path of supernatural resilience so you can reclaim your joy, strengthen your heart, and thrive through the storm.

Between false promises of ease and comfort on one side and the sheer trauma of global disease and disasters on the other, people today are facing a shortage of peace, happiness, and strength.

In Resilient , Eldredge reveals a path toward genuine recovery and resilience through Jesus himself. Drawing on wisdom from Scripture and Christian tradition, and illustrated throughout with powerful, true stories of grit and survival, Resilient will help you: Thriving requires a resilient soul. This book will help you find the resilience you long for when the world has gone mad--and discover in Jesus himself the strength that prevails.

My Verdict: This book is a Christian-based post pandemic perspective on weariness, while offering the reader some skills and tools (based on scripture) that we can apply in our lives to combat the attack of the weariness we feel deep in our soul. This book is for those who are trying to understand the effects of trauma from a post pandemic world filled with anger and division. I particularly related to the part of the book where he talks about mental resilience and how we need to rearrange our lives. He says that this begins when we decide to take hold of our thought life. This resonated with me because I believe strongly that our thoughts have power in our lives. The central message is one of the importance of leaning into God in times of struggle.

While this book may not be for everyone, if you are a Christian and you are still experience fatigue from the past few years this book is one that I would definitely recommend. I give this book 4 stars.