In Even in Our Darkness, Jack Deere helps readers see the beauty of God through his unconditional love for us as he brings harmony to our broken stories of darkness and destruction. I feel privileged to have witnessed this book being lived before it was written, as my mentor Jack Deere showed by example how to savor God's friendship through our darkest days. This story inspires hope, not by sanitizing reality, but by artfully displaying a transcendent reality---the beauty of God even in our darkness.