Even the Monsters

Living with Grief, Loss, and Depression: A Journey Through the Book of Job

De: Daryl Potter

Narrado por: Bill Forsythe

A grieving father and husband. A search for understanding. How can a suffering soul find meaning and peace?

First-time dad Daryl Potter never felt joy so deep. Then one week after his daughter’s birth, a devastating series of medical emergencies threatened the lives of both his wife and daughter and that innocent joy was gone forever.

Daryl’s initial inability to find help in the Bible’s key book on suffering shook his trust in God. What followed was a desperate quest to find something in the story of Job’s trials that could help him or he risked giving up on faith altogether. The search that followed lasted over twenty years.

Does Job’s ancient poem have the power to repair a wounded heart? Can a life dismantled and hope destroyed ever be restored?

In this intimate and honest account, one man wrestles with deepening his perspective of God in the context of suffering. Comprehensive Biblical commentary is interwoven with Daryl’s deeply personal narrative. He offers those experiencing hardship a path to surviving life’s challenges. It is a path that creates a rich understanding of the one who is God of even the monsters.

Even the Monsters. Living with Grief, Loss, and Depression—A Journey Through the Book of Job is a must-have resource for those going through tough times. If you like relatable experiences, in-depth Bible interpretation, unflinching quests for the truth, and real-life application of God’s Word, then you’ll be moved by Daryl Potter’s meaningful and emotional account.

©2022 Daryl Potter (P)2022 Daryl Potter

Excellent, Accessible, and Moving

Even the Monsters is one of the most engaging nonfiction books I've read. A compelling mix of biblical commentary and personal memoir, Daryl Potter swept me into the tragic and inexplicable reality of his family grappling with his daughter's medical conditions. He leaned on the book of Job to help him make sense of their suffering, but it didn't have answers he could uncover quickly.

Daryl's decade of studying Job and the care with which he read it and its commentaries by others is abundantly clear. I have learned so much about the book of Job and expect my approach to reading the whole Bible to shift due to what he has learned and shared.

Bill Forsythe narrates with both an even keel and, when appropriate, passion.

I began highly recommending both the book and audiobook to friends and family long before I finished Even the Monsters. Thank you, Daryl, for baring your soul, and refining mine and, I'm sure, others' as a result.

Grateful that God is not threatened by monsters!

If you thought you knew the story of Job, think again. Daryl Potter carefully takes his reader/listener on a journey of discovery in this expository work of the book of Job. Potter weaves his own trials of his medically fragile daughter carefully throughout the book as he works to find his own “new version of normal” that has purpose and hope. In the end, God’s love does not disappoint.