The experience of "real believing" is the subject of this remark- able book. Author Lewis Smedes shows what it means and how it feels to get in touch with "the kind of believing you do with your deepest self, down deep where your primeval feelings flow. The thinking part is not all that hard. I can think of arguments for God in my sleep. It is the feeling part that comes hard, the part that lets you know in the deep places of your soul that it is all right even when your head tells you everything is ghastly."

Compellingly written, always down-to-earth, HOW CAN IT BE ALL RIGHT WHEN EVERYTHING IS ALL WRONG?does not ex plain away or camouflage the fact that things get bad. Instead, it helps us to move beyond a disheartening present by being open to God and the certainty that things are fundamentally all right

In the last analysis, HOW CAN IT BE ALL RIGHT WHEN EVERYTHING IS ALL WRONG? is about the gift of grace Smedes shows us how to discover hints of this grace in our own emotional responses to life, in our relationships with others, in our hope for the future. "Grace is that feeling of hope. And it is other things too. It happens on many layers of life. But one thing is the same all the way through. Grace makes us feel that it's all right even when everything is all wrong."

Grace does happen. This book is testimony to one man's dis covery of that fact. It is also a summons to find the gift of grace hidden in our own hearts.