How Did I Get Here? by Christine Caine {book review}
How Did I Get Here? Finding Your Way Back to God When Everything is Pulling you Away is the latest book by author and speaker Christine Caine. If you’ve ever felt lost, disconnected, or like you were just going through the motions in your faith walk, you’ll want to read this.
How Did I Get Here?
We’ve all been there at some point — life is coming at you from all directions and you feel like you’re just barely trudging through. The tyranny of the urgent, the discouragement, the tough days. It can all feel overwhelming, even when you have the eternal hope of Jesus in your heart.
Why is that anyway? I’ve asked myself that question so many times. Why did the Hebrews complain about being tired of the same old manna in the desert instead of just being thankful that God provided for them? Why did they build that golden calf after all that they’d been through? Why did the Apostles, who lived and walked and ate with Jesus, have so many doubts and shortcomings? The human condition tends toward despair and grumbling and clutching at straws when we’re at our worst. After all, it’s why we need Jesus in the first place!
Christine Caine understands this very well and covers the topic with compassion and practical ideas. She describes it as moving from a what-if faith into an even-if faith, or from fear to blessed assurance.
I found myself nodding along as I read her descriptions of the anxiety and questions that fill your mind when you are overtaken by fear during life’s struggles. This has happened to me too many times, lying awake at night and wondering how I’m going to handle it all.
From the publisher:
Bestselling author, speaker, and activist Christine Caine helps readers who are feeling weary and like things somehow aren’t quite right to identify how they ended up where they are and what they need to do to course-correct and anchor themselves in the only One who does not change or shift with the currents.
We’ve all at some point looked up from the daily grind and realized we had somehow drifted off course. Maybe we’ve been doing all the right Christian things and saying all the right Christian words, but inside we know something is just a bit off. Like we’ve run out of energy, vision, passion, and feel unable to move forward. The question we’re pondering is not only How did I get here? but also What do I do now?
In this new book, Caine meets us all in that place of weariness and uncertainty, sharing her own journey of discovery with vulnerability, candor, and self-deprecating humor. She lays out what she has learned about staying the course when you’re feeling untethered and guides us each to
- learn the questions to ask about our relationships with God, with others, and with our own hearts to stay continually anchored despite the world’s shifting currents;
- discover how to trust God more deeply by moving from a “what if?” kind of faith to an “even if” kind of faith;
- identify nine signs we are drifting off course and learn how to reposition ourselves to get back on track; and
- wrestle honestly with life’s hard questions so we can respond faithfully to all the ways God answers, including the times when it feels like he doesn’t.
Christine offers up deeply personal stories, scriptural insights, and an eye-opening admonition to start paying closer attention, helping us to stop drifting and start thriving as we place our anchor on our unchanging, trustworthy God.
If you struggle with anxiety often (or even rarely), there is much hope to be found in How Did I Get Here? by Christine Caine. I highly recommend getting the book or audiobook today to add to your spiritual growth toolkit.
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