Breaking for Rainbows: Hope for the Long Night

By Martin Balome

Hope is not the absence of night. It is learning to walk until morning.

Some nights refuse to end. Not the kind you sleep through - the kind that is still there at breakfast, that rides in the passenger seat on the way to work. If you are in one of those nights, or you love someone who is, this book was written for you. And it will not pretend yours is shorter than it is.

Breaking for Rainbows is not a formula. No seven steps, no promise that tomorrow will be easy. It offers something rarer: honest company for the long night. Written from inside the dark rather than from a mountaintop, these short, unhurried reflections walk through five movements - naming the weight, moving forward before the path is visible, chasing beauty when your legs are tired, stopping for a grace that arrives unearned, and finally becoming light for someone else.

"There is no deadline for the dark. These hours will pass. They always do. The dawn does not forget to come."

Inside you'll find:

Sixty-two brief reflections you can read in any order, on any kind of nightGentle questions for the honest after each chapterA complete reader's guide for book clubs and small groups

For the grieving, the exhausted, and the ones quietly holding it all together. And for anyone shopping for a friend walking through something hard - the friend after the funeral, or the one who has stopped answering texts.

For readers of The Comfort Book, Everything Happens for a Reason, and It's OK That You're Not OK.

There is no easy sunrise here. Only the quiet insistence that morning always comes - until you can chase the sunset again, break for the rainbow you weren't looking for, and, in time, go and be dawn.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1971311111
• ISBN13: 9781971311111
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Caliana Press
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"