Lawyer Releases Candid Memoir Titled Singing Through Fire

The author shared her journey of how this book came to be.

“After my husband passed, I felt the Lord calling me to write a book on my journey through suffering. I wrote it from my sick bed, in the thick of loss. God knew I needed to make meaning out of the rubble and to wrestle with Him on paper,” she said.

She added that she picked the title as a reflection of her inner turmoil.

“Singing Through Fire captures the tension of my life: the nonstop ache of chronic illness, grief, and countless dashed dreams — and yet still daring to sing, laugh, trust, and moving toward hope. It’s the music of defiant faith echoing in a burning room,” Silverman said.

One may wonder how through these devastating episodes, she managed to do comedy. “There are two answers. On an earthly level, laughter is oxygen when you’re suffocating. I joke so that I won’t cry. On an eternal level, the Lord explicitly calls us to have joy amid our grief. And what better way to find joy than to use humor and giggles to cheer up other people during their own trials? That’s why I wanted my book to be hilarious too. It’s laughter mixed in with tragedy,” she explained.

She concluded by saying, “I’m still a work in progress. Still asking God hard questions, but still hoping, still performing. Still believing God will one day bring tremendous beauty from my ashes — because He explicitly promises as much in the Bible.”