About This Circle
Ayanna Elise did not write Dear God, I'm Tired as a devotional. She wrote it as a letter: honest, undecorated, addressed to a God she was not sure was listening and to every reader who has ever felt the same exhaustion. SoulWrite Studio™ was built to hold exactly that kind of writing, and SoulWrite Sunday™ is the readership that honesty creates. This is not a faith circle in the institutional sense. It does not require membership in any tradition. What it requires is the willingness to read about exhaustion and the specific grief that arrives when you have been holding yourself together for too long. The books here do not end with everything resolved. They end with the reader less alone.
Who This Circle Is For
This circle is for the reader who picks up a book in the early hours because sleep will not come and the quiet is too loud. It is for the person in the middle of something they have not yet named, and for the reader who needs permission to be tired without performing recovery.
Focus Themes
The Collection
Discussion Prompts™
Dear God, I'm Tired opens with an admission most readers have never allowed themselves to make in public. Where in the book did you feel that the author was writing directly to your specific exhaustion?
From: Dear God, I'm Tired by Ayanna Elise
The book makes a distinction between the kind of tired that sleep can fix and the kind that cannot. What does that distinction open up for you as a reader, and does it change what rest means?
From: Dear God, I'm Tired by Ayanna Elise
Ayanna Elise writes toward grief without offering false resolution. How did reading a book that refused to fix things actually make you feel more held than a book that tried to?
From: Dear God, I'm Tired by Ayanna Elise
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