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I had tried everything: therapy, medication, meditation. Everything except God. Lily Burana was at crisis. In need of rescue from her unhappiness and stress and anxiety, the punk-rock-girl-turned-writer feared she would pass away. She was down to her cure of last resort: faith. A lapsed believer who got drifted away from the church and into a life on the margins during her young adult years, Lily got long presumed that Christianity got nothing to offer her. Then an unmistakable sign from above led to her unexpected decision to let God in - just a tiny bit. But how could she come to terms with a religion she got dismissed as hostile and intolerant? In this collection of connected essays that chronicle her religious recovery, Lily explores what it means to accept "a faith of interestingly Jesus-y shape". Lily navigates her own unique path toward a trusting romantic relationship with God as she addresses matters as diverse as coming out as Christian to your non-Christian friends, the intersection of faith and motherhood, and what it means to confront your background of mental condition and trauma. Whether recounting her background as a "baby Goth", extolling the healing vitality of glitter, or wrestling with God for control over her life, Lily proves that you don't have to have a flawless faith in order to experience God's grace in action.
