Where Is God?: Finding His Presence, Purpose and Power in Difficult Times gives some excellent advice on how to draw closer to God during the difficult times in your life. During these hard times many people wonder if God really does care about them, if He really is aware of their struggles, and how a loving God can allow great heartache and tragedy. This book answers those questions.

I started reading this book shortly after my infant son passed away. Thanks to some godly advice from a pastor in our church I didn’t struggle immensely with many of the "Where is God?" types of questions during this very difficult time. I did, however, wrestle with the "Why us?" question. "Why did we have to lose our child?" While the book didn’t give me a concrete answer to that question (and I never expected it to!), it did encourage me to draw even closer to God during this difficult time. The book is easy to read, with quite a few examples from the author’s life to help explain different concepts. I especially liked the final chapter, "Nuts and Bolts", because it discusses how to incorporate "time with God" into your life without it becoming just another task to check off on your to-do list.

Knowing that the book was written by a Christian psychologist, I was curious to see how much of the book was built on the Bible, and not just on psychology theories. I was glad to see that Dr. Townsend’s writings are very strongly based on Biblical truths. He references quite a few Bible verses throughout the book to help explain and reinforce his points. If you’re a Christian with a close, personal relationship with God then you probably won’t glean a lot of new insight from this book. I think the book is best suited for new or struggling Christians, or even non-believers.

I received this book free from Thomas Nelson Publishers as part of their BookSneeze.com book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.