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Where Is God When Bad Things Happen?: Finding Solace in Times of Trouble

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Many books have been published about the same topic. But no one can come close to this book. One needs practical resolution when in bad time. This book offers exactly this. It is preachy but it is good preaching. Highly recommended

This is a book of faith, love and healing by example, the main reason we have preachers. Most churchgoers need someone smarter than they to interpret the parables, advice and scriptures. I was flabbergasted when the prodigal returned home to find an old friend on t.v. every Sunday. With his multitude of hand language, you'd think he was teaching tottlers in a funky type of pre-school. But, to my amazement, that was his type of preaching (as if the t.v. audience were all children). And as far as being a friend, no way! Senior pastor of the beautiful ch;urch downtown where I was wed; the good memories of love gone bad immediately were shattered by not one "no" but more. Now, I am not one who begs, but two requests for help (not money) over a seven-year period of deprivation were summarily denied. He refused a friend of his mother who would have been ashamed of him; in my mind, I thought of that church as "for the homeless." It was glad news when he recently retired.

Rev. Palau starts this exhortation with details of his father's death. It's okay to put irrelevant personal facts about bad things happening to family (why'd God allow that?) in a book but not a review. Is it more painful to lose your wife to divorce than an actual death. If God can heal physical ailments (and I'm not sure He can "for me") can't He deal with the agony of failed marriages and loving relationships? Why should men like Mark be so bitter and cross at the one who loves him now with a few words better left unsaid come out unexpectedly in a way she feels it's her fault. She didn't know him at the time of his bitter, hard divorce but he refuses to fall in love again -- after all these years because the devil cast unforgiveable accusations which festered into disgust of all women. It's true we usually make the same mistakes and choose the wrong person to love. But he should not take out all the hate and vitriol he had to listen to in court (how humiliating) on a woman who adores and admires his intelligence.