Through the Dark, by Yolanda Nava, author, Hispanic celebrity, and frequent visitor to Santa Barbara, is a profoundly important book. She held a recent interview with Frank Shaeffer of University United Methodist Church of Isla Vista, and she responded in person to participant questions about her book on the sudden change in her life.
Many of us find ourselves adapting to a new set of conditions in life, coping with fear of more delays in restoration of a preferred normal. Her story is about self-determination in the face of not only difficult obstacles, but radical, permanent, physical ones. Mostly, for believers in their own spiritual life, it is about faith, and deeply held values that a strong spiritual life offers when facing near-death situations.
Nava's book will convince you and empower you to see that your own life mostly presents what Bernie Sanders calls the small stuff, easily overcome with a few changes in beliefs or attitudes. This story is about real change needed, alongside the basic difficulties we all face in relationships, false expectations, loss of people, or things valued, and in the face of overwhelming financial pressures.