The Night Is Normal:
A Guide through Spiritual Pain

 

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It’s unnerving, isn’t it? When our faith feels ungrounded, untethered . . . unreal. 

In The Night Is Normal, revered author, speaker, and mentor Dr. Alicia Britt Chole offers a groundbreaking perspective that reveals spiritual disillusionment as an unexpected friend. Within these sacred pages, you’ll explore how:

  • The roots―and fruits―of spiritual pain are actually an invitation to deep love
  • Mistaking emotions for devotion and viewing abundance as proof of obedience create an unsustainable model for Christianity
  • A strong night-faith can lead you into something far more satisfying than understanding and far more powerful than peace


Our reality is broken, but God has not changed. Whether you’re disillusioned with God, yourself, or others, Alicia offers practical and soul-full tools to help you navigate the night and find your way to a livable and love-saturated hope.

Your night will not last forever.
Within it, there is priceless treasure
that’s simply too weighty to be sourced in sunshine.

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Storms are survivable when we view them as relational. The night is filled with holy invitations to grow our love for God.
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Bring any uncertainty, frustration, and pain with you. Denial–however polite or well-intended–has no regenerative power.

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God has not changed. But our understanding of what it means to follow Him has undergone an alarming mutation from the dual toxins of mistaking emotions for devotion and viewing abundance as proof of obedience.

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Your night will not last forever, but within it, there is priceless treasure that is too weighty to be held by sunshine.

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Pre-sin, pre-fall, pre-curse, and pre-drama, night was one of the original residents of Eden.

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Disillusionment is not all loss. When we are disillusioned, loss is making way within us for a powerful gain.

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The soul-deep sadness of disillusionment challenges and then refines and purifies our beliefs with the fire of Truth.

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Living faith can never be reduced to lifeless formulas. Formulas gut faith of relationship. And if faith is anything, it is relational.

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The Christian faith is a duet to be lived out with God, not alone in our heads. Our faith is in God, not in our own understanding.

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Day-faith had taken Job far, but night-faith is what ushered him (and what can usher us) into new dimensions of devotion to God.

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JOIN the 5-Day devotional: NightLights

Alicia has joined with the Bible App YouVersion to bring a 5-Day Devotional that goes along with her latest book, The Night is Normal.

Join us with the Nightlights Devotional and discover that
The night is not your enemy.
In fact, the night is necessary.

Endorsements

I’ve just finished this book in full-body chills. Without a doubt, The Night Is Normal will become one of the most important books of our time. I dare you to read this work and not be irresistibly drawn to Jesus.

-LISA WHITTLE
Bestselling author, Bible teacher, and podcast host

Alicia Britt Chole is one of the richest and most timeless voices of the twenty-first century. In fact, I believe her work and insights will be as profoundly relevant one hundred years from now as they are today.

Dr. Chole’s book serves as a wise and gentle guide to what often feels  like an excruciatingly lonely journey in the Christian faith.

-GRANT SKELDON
Next Gen Director at Q Ideas and author of The Passion Generation

When I entered into a prolonged night season in my own life, it was Alicia who stepped in to help me navigate the disillusionment I feared would cause my faith to unravel. The Night Is Normal is a gift to us all.

CHRISTINE CAINE
Founder of A21 and Propel Women

This book is an insightful journey through spiritual disillusionment— its meaning, healing, and hope. The Night Is Normal will offer you a  path leading from disillusionment back into the depths of God’s never-ending love.

JENNIFER KEITT
CEO of The Keitt Institute: A Center for Emotional Development andWell-Being

This is no pablum or spirituality-lite bromide. The Night Is Normal is robust, tough, and authentic. As an octogenarian with fifty-seven years of mission ministry, I thank Alicia for speaking into the liminality of my own journey.

WILLIAM D. TAYLOR, PHD
Servant, mentor, and writer

I know Alicia. I trust Alicia. You can trust her to be the wise and empathetic voice to speak into your own spiritual pain. Each word Alicia wrote in this book reflects her heart. I’m convinced that God  can use this book to sweep away the dark so the night will give way  to beautiful hope.

-JENNIFER ROTHSCHILD
Author of nineteen books and Bible studies, including Lessons I Learned in the Dark; founder of Fresh Grounded Faith women’s events; and host of the 4:13 Podcast

Alicia Britt Chole has put her ears to God’s heart and mouth to help us navigate the night seasons of disillusionment with God, with ourselves, and with others. Through scholarship and the exegeting of her own walk with God, she helps us own the night seasons as cycles that produce an ever-increasing commitment and capacity to love and to faithfully endure.

BISHOP CLAUDE ALEXANDER
Pastor of The Park Church

When I first read the line “The night is not your enemy,” my heart was welcomed into one of the most important books of our time. Like a master craftsman at work, Alicia will challenge you, enlighten you, and give you the biblical framework and language to express and work through thoughts and emotions you have probably wrestled with in recent times.

DARLENE ZSCHECH
HopeUC Church

The Night Is Normal graces us with an insightful and realistic assessment of disillusionment with God, ourselves, and others. Her practical counsel invites and empowers the reader to surrender to God’s upward pull of love.

KENNETH BOA
President of Reflections Ministries and Trinity House Publishers

In The Night Is Normal, Dr. Alicia Britt Chole dismantles our desire to make everything okay and calls us to recognize that God is God of the night just as He is of the day. Prepare to discover gems in the  darkest part ofnthe ocean to help you navigate the nights of your life.

KIMBERLY ALEXANDER, DPHIL
Leading lady of The Park Church and founder of Deeper Roots SoulCare, LLC

I can’t think of too many people I’d trust more to guide us through these  deep waters than Dr. Alicia Britt Chole. This book will  surely be among the most dog-eared on my shelf!

LISA HARPER
Bible teacher, speaker, author of Life

Meet Alicia

In person and in print, Dr. Alicia Britt Chole’s words perform grace-filled surgeries. Her voice is soothing, her manner is calm, and her messages are piercing. Men and women, learners and leaders, across ethnically diverse groups agree: In a culture obsessed with all-things-new, Alicia brings ancient truth to life.

An intriguing wordsmith, skillful mentor, and international speaker, Alicia’s award-winning writings have been featured in Christianity Today, FaithGateway, YouVersion, Propel, and Guideposts. Alicia holds a DMin in leadership and spiritual formation from George Fox Seminary and serves as the founding director of Leadership Investment Intensives , a nonprofit that provides customized soul-care for leaders in business and ministry.

Alicia lives in the Ozarks of Missouri with her husband, Dr. Barry Jay Chole and their three amazing children (all Choles through the miracle of adoption). Among her favorite things are thunderstorms, jalapeños, wild woods, and pianos in empty rooms.

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