AMAZING GRACE FOR THOSE WHO SUFFER: 10
LIFE CHANGING STORIES OF HOPE AND HEALING.
By Jeff Cavins and Matthew Pinto.
Those
who are suffering often feel so alone.
Who can really understand the pain,
confusion, and anguish? The ten
stories in this book will bring comfort and
guidance to those whose hearts are broken
and whose bodies are hurt.
Samples
of the stories include:
*
August 1, 1996. That date, indelibly carved
in my memory, divides my life in two: before
Tim's and Jenni's deaths and after. It
is the day my life was change forever.
* You
see, I spent nearly two and a half years in
jail -- but I was innocent.
* . . .
it was time to stand before the grave. I
prayed God would give me the courage I
needed to face the name of the person who
had injured me so deeply.
* You
could say, then, that I grew up with
headaches as part of the daily fabric of
existence. Perhaps because of this, I have
trouble recollecting both the onset of
migraines in my own head and my reaction to
this visitation.
* . . .
we now believe that the police already
suspected that a little girl had been
kidnapped and murdered.
* To
feel rejected, unwanted, and "different" is
a suffering that takes deep root in the
human heart. It affected my entire life and,
for many years, my relationship with God.
* As
Brad stepped into the street, a car going
forty-five miles an hour in a
twenty-mile-an-hour zone hit him. The
young man driving the car had reportedly
been late for work.
* Four
months before this fateful night, at the age
of thirty-eight, I was diagnosed with breast
cancer. Our family of five, including
three small children, was on the verge of
bankruptcy. My husband, David, in the
throes of his drug addiction, was battling
for his life.
* As
fear threatened, I reminded myself that this
was just another set of treatments.
Vomiting, headaches, and nausea wouldn't
kill me: It was just pain.
* . . .
I would spend nearly a year and a half in
the brain injury unit, including the five
months as an inpatient. The glamorous,
fast-paced life of Joan Ulicny, the girl
from Pittsburgh who fought hard and "wowed"
them at IBM, had ended.
* . . .
an academic study of suffering can only go
so far. Suffering cannot be completely
taught in the objective; suffering is a
vocation, a calling that can only be truly
understood in the school of suffering.
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