The Healing Path

I am reading the book, "The Healing Path" by Dan Allender. If you don't own it stop reading right now and go to amazon.com and BUY IT!

Here are a few of the quotes that have, um, changed my life:

"If we fail to anticipate thoughtfully how we will respond to the harm of living in a fallen world, the pain may be for naught. It will either numb or destroy us rather than refine and even bless us"

"...few of us enter the tragedy of living in a fallen world and simultaneously struggle with God until our hearts bleed with hope"

"Healing in this life is not the resolution of our past; it is the use of our past to draw us into deeper relationship with God and His purposes for our lives. We need a new understanding of how to deal with past hurts, one that acknowledges the damage to the human spirit while charting a path toward the abundant life God promises"

"We are to consider the path of suffering a sacred journey"

"The [grief] journey has the potential to heal us or harden us. It will harden us if we attempt to do an end run around the desert, valley, or craggy peak where God compels us to walk. If will soften, break, mold, and heal us if we choose to take sorrow and suffering by the hand and walk by faith into the damage of our past, the struggles of the present, and our fears of the future"