{"product_id":"for-those-who-weep-9781644716410","title":"For Those Who Weep","description":"\u003cp\u003e  • Publisher: Covenant Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Covenant Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Christian Living - Spiritual Growth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is the story of my very real struggle with suffering. Before I was a Christian, I never questioned \"why?\" As a young teen, I was incarcerated in the Milwaukee County Juvenile Detention Center. Homelife had been terrible; this was much worse.\u003cbr\u003e In the book, I share some of the steps I took to try to understand God in my life, eventually leading to a desire to be a clergy man in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. I tell people that I was called from \"prison\" to pulpit. Christian \"love\" was my real struggle. I wanted to know what it really meant.\u003cbr\u003e Then September 2012, my wife, Elaine, broke a hip. Soon after complete recovery, she broke the other one. After that, Alzheimer's set it. Watching her die a bit at a time over an almost eight-year period, I was torn apart and wondered why a loving God allowed this to happen to her and to me. I questioned his love, looked for answers, then I began to understand why a tender forgiving, loving God would allow this to happen. I call what I learned a \"divine diamond.\"\u003cbr\u003e Spiritually, I rediscovered the phrase, \"God Is in Charge!\" Though it helped me spiritually, physically I was a wreck, still not completely recovered two years later. (This next sentence is not in the book.) At age ninety, I do golf three times a week, work out at the gym after golf, and am regaining some of my strength.\u003cbr\u003e I never let the reader forget that I am \"chief of sinners\" who is fiercely loved and cared for by my God.\u003cbr\u003e The \"divine diamond\" helps me look for ways I can be of service and is a guiding light. I've limited what it means to me in the book because I believe each of us who weep need to find our own \"diamond\" and how it can be used by others. Suffering is a real discovery time best left to each to find.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Covenant Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45128393654423,"sku":"9781644716410","price":1180.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781644716410.webp?v=1767651526","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/for-those-who-weep-9781644716410","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}