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Dr. Hubbard, began the book with "Pain has many faces, but these faces often wear a mask". This assertion couldn't be more true as most people cleverly put on a façade to mask the strain of the real weight underneath. Once the human nerve buttons are touched, we react offensively with our favourite verb,'why?':picking up a grudge with God and blaming ourselves simultaneously
I quite loved the way Dr. Hubbard used a wide range of true- life accounts besides the story of Job et al.
Interestingly however,"God neither promised any of His creations a pain-free lifetime nor an instant alleviation of such pain" as we journey through life.
An avoidance, or the numbing delusion,of pain in itself defeats the cause of managing and rising above it unless we learn to see it from God's perspective. Regardless of whether its the loss of a precious child, the dissolution of a relationship, or even as trivial as the loss of a cellphone may sound; our reaction to pain is similar. Yet,"Loss is not fatal" as Hubbard puts it, "for we either choose to live through it", and allow God lead us to a good place on the other side of the temporal adversity, or we allow ourselves to be swallowed by it!
Whatever the pain we'd be undergoing, observing it in the light of the Scripture below from God's perspective would certainly bring some relief to our aching souls.
Not forgetting that Aspirin is a temporal pain-reliever: God alone holds the keys to our cure!
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This is an amazing and practical book on dealing with all types of suffering. I found it very helpful and it will be on my bookshelf forever as a treasure in times of need.
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