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No More Faking Fine: Ending the Pretending
by Esther Fleece Allen
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This book showed up exactly when I needed it most, which I find happens often with books. I didn't know how much I needed this book until I started reading it. How often, when something happens to us, are we just expected to say "It's God's plan!" and move on with our lives? Or how many times is that spoken over us, without leaving room to lament?
Lamenting is actually present in the Bible. Mourning your loss, and really questioning God. You can get mad at God, you can yell and scream at Him. He can take it, and that's one of the things that this book really helped me through. If you can't stomach cliche worship songs, that's okay. You can walk out during worship, you can roll your eyes during a sermon, because He shows up. He's still there in those moments of despair. The moments when nothing makes sense and you're just so angry. When I found out I wasn't going on the World Race any longer I Facetimed a friend of mine sobbing and yelling. Even saying "I don't even know how I'm supposed to believe in Him anymore. He promised me This!"
I didn't feel guilty for being angry, but this book helped me process a lot. This book reminded me that it's okay, and it's normal, and how the church often suppresses this idea of lamenting. Sometimes we need to lament. And that's okay. It's okay to not be fine, and as someone who always says they're doing well or doing fine, this book has really aided me. I really think this is a book every Christian should read, and put into action.
This book showed up exactly when I needed it most, which I find happens often with books. I didn't know how much I needed this book until I started reading it. How often, when something happens to us, are we just expected to say "It's God's plan!" and move on with our lives? Or how many times is that spoken over us, without leaving room to lament?
Lamenting is actually present in the Bible. Mourning your loss, and really questioning God. You can get mad at God, you can yell and scream at Him. He can take it, and that's one of the things that this book really helped me through. If you can't stomach cliche worship songs, that's okay. You can walk out during worship, you can roll your eyes during a sermon, because He shows up. He's still there in those moments of despair. The moments when nothing makes sense and you're just so angry. When I found out I wasn't going on the World Race any longer I Facetimed a friend of mine sobbing and yelling. Even saying "I don't even know how I'm supposed to believe in Him anymore. He promised me This!"
I didn't feel guilty for being angry, but this book helped me process a lot. This book reminded me that it's okay, and it's normal, and how the church often suppresses this idea of lamenting. Sometimes we need to lament. And that's okay. It's okay to not be fine, and as someone who always says they're doing well or doing fine, this book has really aided me. I really think this is a book every Christian should read, and put into action.