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Mike Stavlund
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March 2013
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Mike Stavlund
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Baker Publishing
Published
March 2013
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A Force of Will [eBook]
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When Mike Stavlund's four-month-old son suddenly died, a flood of cards, flowers, meals, phone calls, and gifts let his family know that they were loved and cared for. What was less welcome were the books, and particularly the religious ones. Often impossibly upbeat, saccharine sweet, and with all kinds of confident promises, they increased the pain rather than soothing it. Though Mike could plainly see that these writers meant well, their preoccupation with defending pristine ideas about God from the suddenly obvious truth of God's unkindness created a cognitive dissonance of such scale that he simply put them away. They were too painful to read and too offensive to bear.
Instead he wrote his own book, one week at a time during that first terrible year. A book that embraced the stark reality of loss, the sense of alienation from all of life, the feelings of suffocation at the hands of the well-meaning people gathered around, and the new awareness of feeling abandoned by God.A Force of Willhelps anyone who is going through difficulty to honestly confront their feelings without being made to feel guilty. With heartfelt honesty, Mike shows that there is hope--even when there is no happy ending.
Author
Mike Stavlund
Book Format
eBook (Christian360)
Publisher
Baker Publishing
Published
March 2013
ISBN
9781441240941
ISBN-10
1441240942
Eden Code
4082599
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Author/Creator: Mike Stavlund
ISBN: 9781441240941
Publisher: Baker Publishing
Release Date: March 2013
Eden Code: 4082599