On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living - Hardcover

by Alan Noble (Author)

Christianity Today Award of Merit

Meditations on Why Life is Worth Living

We aren't always honest about how difficult normal human life is.

For the majority of people, sorrow, despair, anxiety, and mental illness are everyday experiences. While we have made tremendous advancements in therapy and psychiatry, the burden of living still comes down to mundane choices that we each must make--like the daily choice to get out of bed.

In these pages, you'll find

• Alan Noble's deeply personal yet universally relatable consideration of the unique burden of everyday life,
• Insight that offers hope and challenge without minimizing the reality of ordinary suffering, grief, and mental illness, and
• Noble's ultimate conclusion that the choice to carry on amid great suffering--to simply get out of bed--is itself a powerful witness to the goodness of life, and of God.

Author Biography

O. Alan Noble (PhD, Baylor) is associate professor of English at Oklahoma Baptist University, a fellow at the Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics, and author of On Getting Out of Bed, You Are Not Your Own, and Disruptive Witness. Noble has published articles at The Atlantic, The Gospel Coalition, First Things, and Christianity Today. He lives with his wife and three children in Oklahoma City.