Nothing Wasted: A Five-Book Collection on Suffering and Hope

Save 25% on the complete collection. Five books, $58.99.

You didn't sign up for this. The diagnosis, the loss, the season that won't lift. Eventually you find yourself asking a question that isn't philosophical, it's personal. What is this for?

The Christian answer is a strange one. It isn't "everything happens for a reason," and it isn't "there's no reason at all." It's that our suffering, joined to Christ's suffering, actually does something. The pain isn't erased, and it isn't explained away, but neither is it wasted.

These five books come at that claim from five different angles: philosophy, the counsel of a saint, the research of a psychologist, the basic architecture of the faith, and the daily practice of trusting God. Read together, they make a small library for anyone in the middle of something hard, or for anyone trying to help someone who is.

What's inside

Trusting God in the Present
by Fr. Jacques Philippe ($9.99)
56 pages from one of the great living spiritual directors, on the only day you can actually trust God in: this one. Peace of heart in turbulent times, in a voice that never rushes you.

Crucibles (PREORDER - Ships September 8, 2026.)
by Ben Baran, Ph.D. ($19.95)
After the death of his son, Baran, a Navy rear admiral and organizational psychologist, went looking for answers in both his faith and his field. The result braids St. John Paul II with research on resilience, and stories from Antarctic explorers, Holocaust survivors, soldiers, and saints. Raw, credible, hopeful. 

The God of Joy and the Problem of Pain
by Jorge Ordeig Corsini ($15.95)
The hardest question, met head-on. A priest and philosopher takes up why a good God permits evil, whether suffering carries meaning, and what it means to believe in a God of joy while the world grieves. Clear, compassionate, and unafraid of the question.

Blessed Be Pain
by Miguel Angel Monge ($16.95)
St. Josemaría Escrivá said the diamond gets cut; the pebble is left alone. This short book gathers his teaching on sickness and suffering and its central conviction: that our crosses, united to Christ's, make us co-redeemers with him. 84 pages you'll return to.

The Four First Things
by Joseph S. Reel ($15.95)
When suffering shakes the foundations, you need to know what the foundations are. Four essential principles for a life with God, including where suffering and evil actually fit in a world he made and loves. Short, direct, built to be reread.