A Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul is George MacDonald's devotional sequence of short daily poems, written as a year-long movement through doubt, prayer, longing, discipline, and spiritual surrender. Rather than presenting doctrine abstractly, MacDonald records the soul's struggle to speak honestly before God.
The book is intimate, meditative, and often restless, with faith appearing as a process of wrestling rather than easy consolation. Its diary form gives the poems a cumulative rhythm, returning again and again to trust, obedience, darkness, hope, and divine nearness. Readers interested in Christian poetry, Victorian devotional writing, spiritual diaries, and George MacDonald's inner religious life will find A Book of Strife unusually searching.
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