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neuschb 's review for:
Walking with God Through Pain and Suffering
by Timothy Keller
Some may say: "we may be stuck here here living for seventy or eighty years until we perish, and the only happiness we will ever know is in this life. And if some trouble or suffering takes that happiness away, you have lost it forever. Either Jesus is on the throne ruling all things for you or this is as good as it gets" (299).
I'm reminded of Tolkien's "joy beyond the walls of the world" and Lewis's "death itself would work backward"--fiction yet strangely fact, I believe, even as we walk through the valley of a senseless and seemingly cruel miscarriage with siren sentinels of numbness, anger, and confusion--weeping profusely, somehow trusting, praying brokenly, thinking, self-examining, reordering our loves, striving toward community and seeking reconciliation. It hurts, God.
I'm reminded of Tolkien's "joy beyond the walls of the world" and Lewis's "death itself would work backward"--fiction yet strangely fact, I believe, even as we walk through the valley of a senseless and seemingly cruel miscarriage with siren sentinels of numbness, anger, and confusion--weeping profusely, somehow trusting, praying brokenly, thinking, self-examining, reordering our loves, striving toward community and seeking reconciliation. It hurts, God.