Undone: When Coming Apart Puts You Back Together

With frankness and insight, Truax, senior pastor of LaSalle Street Church in Chicago, draws readers toward a God who strips away masks and feigned perfection and replaces them with trust in his love and his plan for their lives. Describing the day of her divorce as the “best worst day of my life,” Truax is able through the undoing of her marriage to stop seeming “beautifully invincible.” Instead, she discovers she is free to explore how fear was keeping her from being honest about her life and her relationship with God. Drawing from biblical examples like David and Peter, as well as her own story, she illuminates the masks of self-deception, of being good, and of being busy. Becoming who God calls you to be, she finds, requires “living in a tension between who we are now and who we are becoming.” While some passages run long, Truax provides a nuanced view of where to turn at the moments when life seems most out of control, and a reminder of who ultimately knows best how to put all the pieces together. (Aug.)