BROKEN Copyright 2025 by James Paul Benvenuti, M.D, ISBN 978-1-300-07855-5

Expressing deep suffering but also fulfilling prophecy and affirming faith amid abandonment, Jesus Christ (quoting Psalm 22) cried out during His crucifixion: "My God, My God, why have you abandoned Me? Even Jesus may have felt broken then. The crayon depiction of Jesus on the cover of this book and Prologue was chosen because 5 year-old Matthew Roumie commented in an interview watched by >20 million viewers: "Broken crayons color just the same:they might be broken but they can still make beautiful pictures. Sometimes the broken crayons make even prettier pictures. Uncle Jonathan says that's how Jesus sees people. He doesn't throw us away because we're broken. He uses us to make something beautiful".