If you’ve have you been given clear clichés during challenging times, you understand how painful it could feel to be misunderstood by well-meaning people. Far too often, it appears the response we get to our hurt and disappointment is normally to suck it up, or pray it apart.

But Scripture reveals a God who meets us where we are, not where we pretend to be.

FORGET ABOUT Faking Fine is your invitation to get gut-level honest with God through the life-giving vocabulary of lament. Lament, a practice woven about No More Faking Great: Closing the Pretending throughout Scripture, is usually a prayer that God by no means ignores, hardly ever silences, and never wastes. As author Esther Fleece says, “Lament is the unforeseen pathway to accurate intimacy with God, and with those all around us.”

Esther learned this the hard way, by believing she could turn off painful emotions that haunted her from a broken former she tried to forget on her behalf fast monitor to success. But in silencing her pain, she robbed herself of the opportunity to become healed. Probably you’ve performed the same.

No More Faking Fine is your permission to lament-to give voice to the hurt, frustration, and disappointment you’ve kept inside and silenced for too much time. Drawing from careful biblical research and hard-won insight, Esther reveals how to use God’s own language to attract closer to Him as He leads us through any darkness into His marvelous light.