"I want to believe, I want to have hope, but...." Pastor Craig Groeschel hears these words often and has asked them himself. We want to know God, feel his presence, and trust that he hears our prayers, but in the midst of great pain, we may wonder if he really cares about us. Even when we have both hope and hurt, sometimes it's the hurt that shouts the loudest. Can God be good when life is not? In this book, Groeschel explores the story of the father...

Shortly after being hired by Yale University to study joy, Gorrell got word that a close family member had died by suicide. Less than a month later, she lost her father to a fatal opioid addiction and her nephew to sudden cardiac arrest. The theoretical joy she was researching at Yale suddenly felt unattainable in the fog of grief she now found herself in. She began volunteering at a women’s maximum-security prison, where she met people who...