When There is No Miracle

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Summary: Excellent for uplifting hurting hearts needing answers
Review: I first read this book five years ago when my best friend, a 33 year-old woman who only five months earlier had given birth to her much longed-for first child, was diagnosed with lymphoma. Our 1500-member church prayed faithfully and ferverntly for her life to be healed, but within seven months of diagnosis, she lost her battle to cancer. Many of us struggled to accept our impending loss and to reconcile it with who we wanted God to be in this situation. I found enormous comfort in this book, an old copy from 1977 that I picked up in a second-hand bookstore. As I read it, I began to realize that there were many small, yet life-changing, miracles taking place in the midst of the larger miracle we prayed for but which was not granted. My old copy is now well-worn, underlined and highlighted through and through, so I am delighted to see that it has now been re-issued. A very dear cousin is now also dying of cancer, and I am ordering a new copy to encourage him and his family. I am also ordering two other copies, one for home and another copy for my counseling office for clients to use when they too are seeking to understand why God seems not to be answering their heartfelt cries. I highly recommend this book to anyone searching for answers in the midst of what seems to be unanswered prayers. I believe you will be blessed by reading it.