Night Driving: A Story of Faith in the Dark by Addie Zierman
In the follow-up to her critically acclaimed When We Were on Fire, Addie Zierman chronicles the grief that came when she left the faith of her childhood, and how she found peace, hope, and God on the other side. In When We Were on Fire, Addie Zierman told the riveting story of how she decided to leave the sheltered, us-versus-them culture of her fundamentalist, evangelical upbringing. This is the story of what came next: the crippling grief Addie felt after having lost everything she thought she knew about God, and the hope that found her as she began to sense his presence in a new way. Addie narrates this journey against the backdrop of her family's road trip from Minnesota to Florida in the dead of winter, telling of the friends and strangers she stayed with along the way and the questions that haunted her with each passing mile: What does faith look like when you're living not in the highs of spiritual fervor but in the absence of God's presence? How do you have a relationship with God when you don't feel him, sense him, hear his voice? In this honest, vulnerable memoir, Addie conveys how she learned to see glimpses of God at work--even in the dark.