On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living

Meditations on Why Life is Worth LivingWe aren't always honest about how difficult normal human life is.For the majority of people, sorrow, despair, anxiety, and mental illness are everyday experiences.In these pages, you'll findAlan Noble's deeply personal yet universally relatable consideration of the unique burden of everyday life,Insight that offers hope and challenge without minimizing the reality of ordinary suffering, grief, and mental illness, andNoble's ultimate conclusion that the choice to carry on amid great suffering―to simply get out of bed―is itself a powerful witness to the goodness of life, and of God.