Breaking Open
How Your Pain Becomes the Path to Living Again
by Jacob Armstrong
Pub Date 19 Jul 2022
Thomas Nelson--W Publishing, Thomas Nelson
Christian




I am reviewing a copy of Breaking Open through Thomas Nelson and Netgalley:


We live in a broken world and as such we ache to go through life without giving up or in. Jesus offers us another option, instead of breaking down we can break open.


We ache to be whole, we ache to be healed, we ache to be restored. But most of the time we are unable to put it into words. We are broken because we have a child whose fell into addiction We ache because the depression of our youth is now the depression of our golden years. We are stretched to the point of breaking because our career ambitions position us to commit to a pace we can’t sustain. Miscarriage, divorce, loneliness. In all of it, we ache.


In Breaking Open Pastor Jacob Armstrong exposes the seven dangerous ways that we commonly seek to avoid a breakdown, showing how these seven ways are stealing life from us, and then walks us through a progression of seven Jesus-ways that move us from merely breaking to breaking open. 
It is these Jesus-ways tha get us to the good stuff: a life filled with hope and opportunity.


Jesus never meant for us to break and stay shattered, instead he wants us to fall and rise differently. We are meant to rise up with hope, with purpose with power. We will rise changed and find a new way of living.


I give Breaking Open five out of five stars!


Happy Reading!

Breaking Open is a very well written book and it is helpful for anyone who has experienced pain in their lives.
You can have healing and can have hope!
A life filled with hope and opportunity and it's okay if we dont have it all together!