Jerry Pollock unashamedly puts himself out front but asks the reader to follow him on his journey toward spiritual awakening. He speaks of his depression, his suicide attempts, his failures, his spiritual awakening, his relapse into depression, and, finally, his spiritual rebirth. His writing style is conversational, allowing the reader to walk compassionately and reflectively rather than judgmentally. It's a book hard to put down with its 200 pages of true enlightenment. Throughout the reader is saying to himself, "I'm glad this is not my journey." But the reward in reading the book is understanding the spiritual truth that the phoenix can and does rise from its ashes, that the spiritual journey often requires a complete fall before its lesson is fully learned. It's a book hard to read because of the true and depressing incidents revealed. But there is always the light at the end of the tunnel that gets brighter and brighter and finally shines forth to awaken the disheveled and distraught soul.

Read this book and then the next. Meet Jerry. Know him and you'll know his journey—a painfully true and frank story that calls out to the reader to embrace Jerry in his pain in one moment and to celebrate with him the next. The book is as painful to read as one might expect when hearing of another's tragic rearing. But take heart as the author teaches us to reach inside, to grab hold of what remains, to refuse to be imprisoned by our past, and to find our source of spiritual renewal and growth. We don't just read Pollock's journey, we walk with him on our own as well. Divinely Inspired may be a quick read but not one soon forgotten.