Summary

Don’t spend your life practicing disappointment and rehearsing tragedy when you can experience God’s gift of joy and celebration today.

Author and marriage and family therapist Nicole Zasowski knows that it’s difficult to trust joy and find the courage to celebrate when you have endured seasons of disappointment and despair. When God has been your faithful anchor in the storm, does joy then leave you unmoored? Nicole reminds us that we can stay tethered to the hope of Christ in seasons of celebration, because even joyful days hold the learning, growth, and intimate encounters with Jesus that our hearts crave.

What If It’s Wonderful? offers a new perspective. With a compelling psychological and spiritual case for the importance of embracing joy and celebration, even when it feels scary, it will help you

identify common barriers and hesitancies to experiencing joy, debunk their lies, and overcome your fears,
confront toxic messages you have received about joy as you learn to see celebration as an avenue of growth and intimacy with God,
approach life with an expectant heart, a receptive posture, and courage to trust God’s good gifts, and
stay emotionally healthy and spiritually alive in seasons of joy and celebration.

Things don’t always have to be hard to find God and to stay close to him. Release your fears and accept his beautiful gift of joy and celebration.

Review

For those of you who are faith based that have faced personal disappointment and embracing joy, this book will encourage and challenge your intrapersonal consciousness about yourself. The trajectory of consistent disappointment can be crippling when trying to be optimistic but with some challenging commentary, What If It's Wonderful hopes to give the readers some insight to breaking the cycle and having the courage to embrace joy.

We all go through trials and tribulations and for some more than others, it's hard to expect or embrace joy when things to work out over and again. A great takeaway from the book is through her shared personal experiences, professional insight and influences from her faith, she tries to help you break down those fears and embrace a future where you can receive joy. For use to evolve, no matter how bad things are, we can't allow it to define us or our future. For us to grow, we have to quiet the negative voice that we don't deserve joy and trust and be open to receive.

Overall, I thought the book was engaging from the perspective of what she wanted to accomplish with her book. Her experiences are relatable and her insight gives you something to reflect upon for your own experiences. So if you are faith based and are struggling with this topic, this will be a book that you might want to consider checking out.

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