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This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks Into Our Darkness by Sarah Clarkson
4 reviews
mamatoca's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
A memoir that describes the author's experience with loss and mental illness, and how God showed her his goodness through her trials. She concludes that God does not abandon us, nor does he pluck us out of our suffering, but rather he FILLS it with himself. A very Catholic view of spirituality, although she is a high church Anglican.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death of parent and Mental illness
betsyhokamp's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Mental illness
Minor: Death, Pregnancy, and Miscarriage
coffeestainsandinkspots's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
This is an amazing book that goes through the meaning of beauty and how God uses beauty to draw us closer to him... especially during hard times.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Mental illness
The author talks quite a bit about her struggle with OCD and invasive thoughts. She occasionally will briefly describe the nature of her invasive thoughts and sometimes they are shocking or violent.abigail_leigh's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
(Note: Baker Books was kind enough to let me read an eARC from NetGalley as part of the launch team, but all opinions are my own)
Y’all… this book.
This is a book that incapsulates what I’ve been looking for in an understanding of beauty and art as agents against the darkness of the world. This isn’t going to wrap everything up into neat little answers—in fact that would go against the entire purpose of the book—but it’s a beautiful dive into how beauty restores us and our humanity.
Sarah Clarkson has a distinctive writing style consisting of vivid imagery and description. It’s more generous when speaking of beautiful encounters, and yet it does not minimize or ignore descriptions of grief and darkness. She just refuses to be gratuitous which I appreciate as it could otherwise turn the reader’s focus to the horrors of the world without acknowledging the beauty. She allows for her own experience of darkness to loom as it did from her perspective, but it never gets the final word. Beauty is always woven in through experience, song, book, and film.
Speaking of, I am inspired to read what she referenced throughout this book and in her preorder reader’s guide. I also have a playlist of the songs referenced. She just brings these things to life and it makes me want to pursue beauty more and more in my daily life.
So I would absolutely recommend this book for people going through hard times and also just for those who want a clearer picture of where God meets us in our suffering and how to create beauty in our lives. And I hope that eventually the ideas in these chapters especially in part two become books of their own because there is clearly a love and passion there.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief and Mental illness
Moderate: Death and Miscarriage
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