Hope For The Troubled Heart: Finding God In The Midst Of Pain - Softcover

Graham, Billy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553561553 ISBN 13: 9780553561555

Publisher: Bantam, 1993

Synopsis

Reach for the happiness that lies beyond hardship and heartache. A lost job, a shaky marriage? Loneliness, frustration, or feelings or failure? A family tragedy or a serious illness? Life is full of tough times that can leave us feeling lost and helpless. But Dr. Billy Graham, who has brought wisdom and inspiration to millions of people around the world wisdom and inspiration to millions of people around the world, shows you how to triumph over pain an uncertainty and discover an inner strength you might otherwise have never known. You'll learn: How to turn the "why" of suffering into the "how" of faith. How to stop resentment and bitterness from stopping you. How failure can groom you for future success. How to store up strength for storms before they break. Prayers as a way of life-a first resort, not a last gasp! Life as a schoolroom for the afterlife. And much more. . .

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Review:

"What is the difference between the paraplegic woman with the smile that lights a room and the millionaire with a suicide wish?" asks Billy Graham. "Or what makes one person accept and keep his balance during a painful time, and another become a self-pitying whiner?" Hope for the Troubled Heart: Finding God in the Midst of Pain is Graham's attempt to answer these questions and the larger question that underlies them: why, in a world full of pain, should people hope and not despair? Perhaps the most powerful thing about this book is the sheer number of its heartbreaking stories about people suffering from abuse, loneliness, sickness, emptiness, financial ruin, and other calamities. Nearly every reader will find something to relate to.

Graham's stories do not stop at desolation, however. They press further, to show how suffering people find solace in the Bible, in the love of other believers, and in the hope of heaven. What Graham offers in this book is a reason to be patient, a reason to believe that the forces of destruction need not have the last word in human life. "A few more days may dawn and darken and we will know the unending day," he writes. "A few brief years, or brief moments, and we shall enter that eternal city, sit in the shadow of the Tree of Life, and drink the crystal clear water. We have only had a foretaste on earth of what it means to love and be loved." That, in the end, is the greatest reason for hope that Graham offers. --Kevin Attwood

About the Author:

William Franklin Graham Jr. entered the ministry in 1943 and, soon thereafter, began a series of revivals. In 1950, he founded The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, which has sponsored crusades and produced radio and television shows as well as films. Graham is the author of many bestselling books. He and his wife, Ruth, live in Montreat, NC; they have five children and nineteen grandchildren.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0553561553
• ISBN 13: 9780553561555
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240