Communion
The Untold Story Behind My Painful Season of Doubt, Sacred Loss, and Finding My Way Back to FaithBy Bryan B. Eason
Length3h 54m
About this audiobook
There was a time when faith came easily — when belief felt like breathing, unquestioned and whole. Then life broke that certainty apart, and what remained was silence where prayer used to be.
Communion follows one woman's unraveling — the anger she couldn't name, the numbness that settled in when anger burned out, and the slow, disorienting years of searching for something to replace what she'd lost. It's an honest look at the people who stayed close and the ones who quietly disappeared, and at the rock-bottom moment that stripped everything down to what actually mattered.
This is not a story about faith recovered easily or belief restored on cue. It's about the small, almost unremarkable moment when grace showed up anyway — uninvited, unproven, and impossible to ignore — and what it took to trust it again.
For anyone who has ever walked away from something they once believed in, wondering if the door back is still open, this is a companion for that road.
Audiobook details
GenreSpirituality and Religion, Biography and Memoir
Length3 hrs 54 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 25, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Untold Story Behind a Painful Season of Doubt, Sacred Loss, and One Woman's Journey of Finding M
2Dedication
3Disclaimer
4Epigraph
5Foreword
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6Part I: The Life Before
71.1 Childhood in the Pew
81.2 What Faith Felt Like Before It Was Questioned
9Chapter 2: The First Crack
102.1 The Moment of Doubt
112.2 Trying to Explain It Away
12Part II: The Break
133.1 The Event That Changed Everything
143.2 Naming the Loss
15Chapter 4: Leaving
164.1 Walking Out the Door
174.2 What the Community Said (and Didn't Say)
18Chapter 5: The Silence
195.1 Prayer Without an Answer
205.2 Learning to Sit in the Quiet
21Part III: The Wilderness
226.1 Losing Patience with God
236.2 Losing Patience with the Church
24Chapter 7: Numbness
257.1 Going Through the Motions
267.2 The Cost of Pretending
27Chapter 8: Searching Elsewhere
288.1 Other Traditions, Other Doors
298.2 What Didn't Fit
30Chapter 9: The People Who Stayed
319.1 Friends Who Didn't Give Up on Me
329.2 The Ones Who Did
33Chapter 10: Rock Bottom
3410.1 The Lowest Point
3510.2 What Was Left When Everything Else Fell Away
36Part IV: Finding My Way Back
3711.1 An Unexpected Moment of Grace
3811.2 Refusing to Trust It Yet
39Chapter 12: Small Returns
4012.1 Testing the Water
4112.2 The First Time It Felt Real Again
4213.1 The Sacrament Revisited
4313.2 What It Means Now, Versus Then
44Chapter 14: Rebuilding
4514.1 A New Relationship with Community
4614.2 A New Relationship with God
47Chapter 15: Home
4815.1 What Faith Looks Like Now
4915.2 What I'd Tell the Woman Who Left
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