These pages are crafted to be read slowly and revisited often, serving as companions for moral courage, grief-tender worship, and renewed commitment to the “beloved community.” Whether you are a preacher, activist, caregiver, or simply someone trying to live awake in unfair times, this book will help you pray with your feet as well as your lips—anchoring your work for justice in a deeper well of grace, resilience, and daring hope.

In a time of exhaustion, division, and deep moral urgency, this companion workbook offers guided exercises for those who long to stay spiritually grounded while doing the hard work of justice, mercy, and communal healing.
Paired with the meditations of Come Too Far to Turn Around, it moves readers through love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control - turning contemplation into prayer, and prayer into faithful action.

The intense work of organizing, speaking, seeking funding, and administrating the people and systems that are necessary to make an impact can easily obscure the original passion and mission behind these activities. Concurrent with this danger of a loss of focus is the presence of pains, disappointments, and inevitable betrayals that can diminish one's capacity to experience or express joy.

For organizers, ministers, advocates, and anyone who has given themselves to the work of justice and peace, this six-week devotional workbook offers something the movement rarely provides: permission to stop, breathe, and tend to your own soul.

Drawn from Floyd Thompkins Jr.'s meditations for weary justice workers, each week opens with a Call to Worship and unfolds into five daily devotions on the real costs of this calling — political compromise, family neglect, anger, burnout, isolation, and the quiet crisis of faith that comes when God feels absent from the work.

This Workbook Edition turns reflection into practice. Every day includes guided reflection questions, journaling space, a concrete action prompt, and a breath prayer — a tithe of twenty-five minutes to remember why you started.

You are not being selfish to care about yourself. You too are part of the world you are called to care for.

Nobody Told Me That the Road Would Be Easy Companion Workbook is a six-week guide for people committed to justice, peace, and faith. Through daily reflections, prayers, practical exercises, and group discussion prompts, Rev. Floyd Thompkins Jr. helps readers pursue meaningful change without losing their joy, rest, love, or spiritual grounding. Ideal for personal devotion, small groups, and justice-minded faith communities.