I slumped to the concrete and kept crying, not caring who heard me. Maybe I was on camera. Let it watch. Let them broadcast. Let them run a story, I thought.
“Local Author Found Stealing from Aldi Dumpster.”
“Pastor Caught in Food Theft.”
From cruising the Caribbean to diving in the dumpster, the Bogdan family plummeted from riches to rags overnight through an unforeseen, forced closing of a successful business. But this isn’t your everyday poverty memoir. It’s one of suffering financial hardship in the context of Christian community, and the whirlwind of accompanying emotions for someone who was a minister by day and a food scavenger by night.
With her trademark raw honesty and humor, Bogdan takes the reader on an eight-year journey to discover how one can not only spiritually survive, but thrive, through unemployment, or any kind of adversity for that matter. This is a book for those who are acquainted with feelings of disappointment in God and/or His people, and the struggle to believe God is in control when all seems hopeless.
