A review by danielle_w
Kiss the Wave: Embracing God in Your Trials by Dave Furman

4.0

I would recommend this to anyone who is suffering, particularly someone at the start of a hard journey. This book would have been incredibly helpful to read when I was first diagnosed. Some of it was a bit under-nuanced for me, but I particularly liked the chapter entitled "The Wave Maker Will Carry You to Shore". My biggest encouragements came from Furman's transparency (I love that he was so open about mental illnesses without taking the time to disclaim them left, right, and center from Biblical counseling readers) and how he set up the chapters to be so simply read. That in itself shows a sensitivity and understanding towards the mental capacity of severe sufferers. This will probably get a re-vamped 5 star review when I read it in a different part of my own suffering path. I sense that Dave wrote much of this when he was past the worst of his grief and lament over physical disability- I hope to one day meet him there.