This gold mine of prayer should be much, much better known.
If you don't know what to do for someone who is going through something horrendous, give them this book.
It says what you don't know how to say. It connects them to God in ways that few other means can.
If you need it for yourself, the most valuable thing you will learn from it is that when it seems nothing is happening, something is actually happening - you just can't see it yet.
We all go through losses and seasons when we think we have nothing left and that our world will never be sane again.
I have seen no other prayer book in my 73 years of reading and collecting them which reaches into one's heart and soul the way this one does.
If your life is so awful just now that you literally don't know what to do, start with this book - and let it speak directly to whatever you are now missing.
It's only a beginning, but it's better than having no way to move forward.