I just finished this great book titled, WHERE IS GOD WHEN IT HURTS, by Philip Yancey and recommend it to you asap. It is a 4.9 out of 5. This book does a very good job at building ones faith in God while attempting to alleviate psychological pain associated with the confusion of why God allows those He loves to suffer and die. He defines the structures set in place by God for sensation and the nervous system and it is mind boggling to read about the intricacies and wonderment of Gods human design for touch and sensation. While explaining the marvelous system by which we are given pain he leads you to understand that without this system our bodies would be unfeeling and shows us what they would look like also should we be free of the nervous system. This is not a new approach but it bears much repeating so that we all better understand that not all pain is bad nor useless.When he is done with his explanation of why pain is important you have a better appreciation for pain altogether.
He tells stories of real people who have and are enduring unbelievable suffering and pain but physical and psychological and through their experiences the reader is brought new levels of humanity that ties us together as human beings that need one another. The conclusion in part 3 titled, HOW CAN WE COPE WITH PAIN, is the apex of the book and I think he does a very good job at helping anyone who is suffering to feel less anxiety associated with the gnawing questions such as the whys, the hows, the what now's, they might be facing and yet does not fully take away the lea way to get in ones own touch with their personal conflicts and rationales.
The pages that jumped out to me are the following:
Page 23 Trying to re-invent pain
Page 29 Last four para's
Page 41 Quote by George Wald
Page 72 whole page
Page 75 last par.
Page 86 Par. 3 Pain turned you to God
Page 92 Par. 2 Absolute evil does exist
Pages that wrapped book up for conclusions for me are : Pages 161,162, 169 and lastly pages 182 & 183
He tells stories of real people who have and are enduring unbelievable suffering and pain but physical and psychological and through their experiences the reader is brought new levels of humanity that ties us together as human beings that need one another. The conclusion in part 3 titled, HOW CAN WE COPE WITH PAIN, is the apex of the book and I think he does a very good job at helping anyone who is suffering to feel less anxiety associated with the gnawing questions such as the whys, the hows, the what now's, they might be facing and yet does not fully take away the lea way to get in ones own touch with their personal conflicts and rationales.
The pages that jumped out to me are the following:
Page 23 Trying to re-invent pain
Page 29 Last four para's
Page 41 Quote by George Wald
Page 72 whole page
Page 75 last par.
Page 86 Par. 3 Pain turned you to God
Page 92 Par. 2 Absolute evil does exist
Pages that wrapped book up for conclusions for me are : Pages 161,162, 169 and lastly pages 182 & 183
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