As Silver Refined

Learning To Embrace Life's Disappointments

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Everyone faces disappointments, trials, and struggles. How do you respond when your husband tramples your emotions? When your boss fires you unexpectedly? When you lose your life's savings? Or when the child you've loved and prayed for faithfully turns his back on you and your values? When disappointments like these smash their way into our lives, we often want to scream: "How could God let this happen?"But what if God didn't just "let it happen"? What if the things we call disappointments are really His appointments -- events God is using in our lives to make us more like Christ?Life's disappointments are unavoidable. We can be defeated by our disappointments, or we can become stronger. Kay Arthur examines the dangerous downward spiral of disappointment that can lead to discouragement, dejection, despair, and demoralization. Readers will learn how to break that cycle and embrace disappointment with faith -- a faith that recognizes the trials of life as tools that God uses to make our lives, like refined silver, more beautiful and valuable.