When growing up Christian was just what you did, attending Christian conferences and singing Christian songs and reading Christian books and hanging out with Christian friends, life was easy. Those around you shaped your walk with Jesus and almost scripted how it would go with Christianese words to describe the pitfalls and peaks along the way. But once you reach early adulthood and nothing is scripted anymore, what do you do when suddenly you're at a loss for the God you thought you knew? Is something wrong with you when you no longer feel Him?
Addie Zierman, in her new book, "Night Driving," takes us along an honest, transparent, literal road trip that symbolizes the spiritual road trip her life is taking with or without her. A follow up to "When We Were on Fire" (here's my review), the book details her winter minivan trip with her two young sons from Minnesota to Florida in search of sun and that old "fire." Like most events to which we attach expectations, the trip falls short in some ways...but in the most important ways, she finds just what she needed.
I appreciate Zierman's honesty and am thankful for her willingness to lay her heart bare for those going through similar seasons with God. She reminds me that the answers to faith issues are not always scripted. Not only do I need to know that for my own life, but I need to remember it for others'.
I received this book free of charge from "Blogging for Books" in exchange for an impartial review. For more information on Addie Zierman, go here.
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