Title: As Silver Refined: Answers to Life’s Disappointments
Author: Kay Arthur
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7348-1
Suggested Retail: $16.99 US/$18.99 Canada
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Summary:
What Can You Do When Life Doesn’t Turn Out Like You Planned?
How do you respond when your husband or wife tramples your emotions? When your boss fires you unexpectedly? When you lose your life’s savings? When the child you’ve loved and prayed for turns his back on you and your values?
When disappointments like these smash their way into your life, you may want to scream, “How could God let this happen?”
But what if God didn’t just “let it happen”? What if the things you call disappointments are really His appointments—events He is using to make you more like Christ? What if your circumstances are actually the flames of His grace, intended to melt and burn away the undesirable elements in your life, leaving you pure and radiant—like refined silver?
You can be defeated by life’s unavoidable disappointments, or you can become stronger because of them.
Life’s disappointments can send you on a dangerous downward spiral into discouragement, depression, or even despair. But in this eye-opening book, Kay Arthur guides you to biblical truths that will help you break that cycle and instead embrace disappointment as the cleansing fire God uses to make you—as silver refined—a reflection of His goodness.
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Review:
I had been dealt with an incident earlier this year that did not turn out like I had planned and was looking for answers. I’m sure many of us can reflect on some moment of devastation or just disappointment in our lives – loss of a job, a relationship not going as we expected, loss of savings, etc.
This is the first of Kay Arthur’s books I have read. I found this book did provide me with answers and is great at sharing passages and stories that go well with what Kay is explaining. I was hoping for it to be a bit more summarized and to include less detail. I don’t have a lot of time to read with young family members and so it seemed a bit of a slower read.
“…remember that nobody’s circumstances are perfect. There’s trouble in every life. We all have to accept that life is not without problems. Life is not without pain. Life is not without heartache and rejection.” quoted from her friend Jan Silvious in this book. Kay summarizes that we should see these events as His appointments and not what we would term disappointments. Although a bit too detailed for me, the words of this book were thought provoking and encouraging.
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