Get Back Up Quick

Jeremy Kingsley's Getting Back Up When Life Knocks You Down encourages perseverance, recognizing that God uses pain, facing truth, letting go of guilt, letting go of anger, letting go of bitterness. This issue of being frustrated, defeated, discouraged, is real for all of us. Kingsley's personal stories are poignant and effective. It's always inspiring to have someone admit his or her own discouragement and disappointment and how he dealt with and rose out of it.
While this book is brief and only says so much, offering many thoughts Christians are already aware of, what's said is helpful and at least a good reminder. I'd like to see a bit more biblical content and I do feel the book's not quite long enough to fully cover the subject. It just feels a little pat, so that at the end you might ask, "Is that all?" but again what is said is helpful and I especially appreciated the many warnings against different wrong responses.
I received this book free from Bethany House in order to review it.