Facing Suffering

Courage and Hope in a Challenging World

In a myriad of forms--acute, violent, dull, excruciating, persistent--pain wears down the body and oppresses the spirit.

It abounds in the life of the poor and ruins the life of the rich.

It makes a child cry, disfigures a young person’s body, marks an adult’s face, and bows the shoulders of the elderly. From the cradle to the grave, our suffering is relentless. Work and pleasure, dependence and freedom, virtue and vice, love and hate, all can make us suffer. Pain is part of our human condition. You could say that we are no longer children when we learn that a mother’s kiss cannot take away all of our sorrows.

This book is intended to help the individual face suffering with dignity and realism, addressing some of the more practical aspects—psychological, social, philosophical, and theological.

With an awareness of subject’s complexity, the book presents a series of thoughts aimed at understanding the ultimate why behind pain and how to cope with it meaningfully. In addition, with the layman in mind, this book provides simple resources to face one’s own pain calmly and that of others with compassion and tact.

The objective is to help fight and endure the reality of pain as much as possible, with courage and hope...

Christian Living

US$19.99

English: 9788472084434

Paperback, 248 pages

Spanish: 9788472084414

Paperback, 260 pages

Safeliz

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This book presents a series of thoughts aimed at understanding the ultimate why behind pain and how to cope with it meaningfully. In addition, with the layman in mind, this book provides simple resources to face one’s own pain calmly and that of others with compassion and tact.

Roberto Badenas holds a doctorate in Theology from Andrews University (Michigan, USA). He is a specialist in Biblical Studies and a professor of the New Testament. Author of several publications, his books Beyond the Law, Knowing the Master in His Parables, and Meet Jesus (his most renowned work to date, translated and edited in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Catalan) also make up part of the Seeds of Hope series.

Christian Living

US$24.99

Paperback, 376 pages

9781786651617

Stanborough

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There is no reason why we should let uncertainty become the realm of our emotional exile. On the contrary, it is uncertainty that should be exiled in our world. This collection of essays by dozens of well-known authors will return your focus from the edge of uncertainty to the solid foundation of the One we know.