Angry Conversations with God…

I just finished reading Susan Isaacs excellent book, Angry Conversations with God. I laughed. I cried. I was moved. This book is so insightful about the mess we humans make of our relationship with God.

Here’s a particularly insightful excerpt:

“Be careful to whom you bare your grief, especially if it’s someone churchy, like Martha. Because the Marthas of the world can’t leave a question unanswered, a problem unsolved, or a sorrow unhealed, they have to fix it. An no matter how long you’ve been a Christian (I’d been one all my life), Martha will know a Bible verse you haven’t heard (or haven’t heard the right way), or she’ll have a book or a sermon tape or a worship CD designed to answer your questions, silence your doubts, muzzle your grief, and make Martha feel better.”