When Your Interruption Smells Like Death: Finding Resurrection in the Deepest Places of Loss

There is a particular category of crisis that goes beyond ordinary pain, beyond the setbacks and disappointments that every life includes, into territory that is uniquely and unmistakably marked by the smell of death. The failed business that everyone in your community knows about. The marriage that has been cold for so many years that the mourners have long since gone home. The prodigal child whose story has passed the point of reasonable hope. The calling that was sealed away behind a stone of public failure. The health crisis that has crossed the threshold of what anyone around you believes can be reversed.
This book is for that territory.
In When Your Interruption Smells Like Death, Pastor Wycliffe Anthony Frater Sr. takes one of the most dramatic miracle narratives in all of Scripture, the death and resurrection of Lazarus in John chapter eleven and turns it into a comprehensive, pastorally rich, theologically grounded guide to surviving, and indeed transcending, life's most impossible interruptions.
This is not a book of easy comfort. The author does not rush past the stench, does not minimize the four days, does not pretend that Martha's grief was misplaced or that the delay of Jesus was anything other than agonizing to everyone who was waiting. He sits in the pain with the reader, because he knows that the God who wept with Mary at the graveside is the same God who commanded the dead to rise.