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As Silver Refined: Learning to Embrace Life's Disappointments | 
 enlarge | Author: Kay Arthur
Publisher: WaterBrook Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 62792
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.9 x 1
ISBN: 1578560640
Dewey Decimal Number: 242
EAN: 9781578560646
ASIN: 1578560640
Publication Date: October 19, 1999
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ARE YOU DISAPPOINTED THAT LIFE ISN'T TURNING OUT LIKE YOU PLANNED? HOW DO YOU RESPOND when your husband or wife tramples your emotions? When your boss fires you unexpectedly? When you lose your life's savings? When the child you've loved and prayed for turns his back on you and your values? When disappointments like these smash their way into your life, you may want to scream, "How could God let this happen?" BUT WHAT IF GOD didn't just "let it happen"? What if the things you call disappointments are really His appointments - events He is using to make you more like Christ? What if He is using your disappointments like flames to melt and burn away the undesirable elements in your life, leaving you pure and radiant - like refined silver? YOU CAN BE DEFEATED by life's unavoidable disappointments, or you can become stronger because of them. Kay Arthur paints a graphic picture of the dangerous downward spiral of disappointment that can lead to discouragement, depression, or even despair. But you can learn to break that cycle and embrace disappointment with a faith that recognizes the trials of life as tools that God uses to make you - as silver refined - a reflection of His goodness.
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A real Eye and Heart Opener December 15, 2008
Incredible book that truly shows that ALL of our disapointments in life are for a reason and all WITH purpose. I would recommend this book to EVERYONE who truly has a desire to see the Heart of God and also has a desire to face life for what it is and to walk in power! How blessed we are to have a bible teacher like Kay to help us along the way!
 Wonderful Book September 10, 2007
I love Kay Arthur
Her books really touch my heart. I received the book in good condition and fast service. It was wonderful to open my mailbox and find the package waiting for me just a few days after placing the order.
AS SILVER REFINED July 26, 2007
JUST LOVE THIS BOOK.......IT'S JUST WHAT I NEEDED TO GIVE ME A MORE POSITIVE OUTLOOK ON DAILY LIFE AND COPING WITH THINGS WHEN THEY DON'T TURN OUT THE WAY I WANT THEM TO...MAYBE IT WAS NOT MEANT TO BE ...GOD KNOWS BEST!
IF YOU ARE FEELING DEPRESSED OR JUST LOOKIING FOR A BETTER WAY TO DEAL WITH EVERYDAY LIFE...THIS BOOK IS AWESOME!!
What a wonderful book!! December 30, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I absolutely love this book. My copy is underlined in many places. Kay Arthur shares her wisdom as a Bible teacher to assure readers of God's sovreignty in ANY and EVERY situation of life. Very comforting and informative. It will make any reader want to dig into the Word of God.
This book is a blessing to my soul May 10, 2005
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
To think, this book had been in print for five years before I found it! It's extraordinary in its frankness, concerning present failures, past regrets, and absolute faith in God's sovereignty. What a blessing that I found it at last! I recommend it to any Christian who is troubled by past sins or mistakes. Even though God has forgiven you, do you have trouble forgiving yourself? This book is a great encouragement, and an enormous comfort.
The title drew me in. EMBRACE disappointments? Pardon me?
The book proved to be a keeper, and beyond that, one to buy for others too. I have a large collection of Christian books, but few of them have earned a place on my bed stand. This book is the most dog-eared of all. I have read it again and again, and God has blessed me each time, with a new discovery about my own life, or a fresh concept to encourage me. Kay's insight is breathtaking to me.
She writes of trials that the enemy wishes would serve to destroy us, and what we can do about it, to reclaim our lives and our joy.
She writes of God: "if this trial were not for your benefit and His glory, He would never have allowed it to seep through His fingers of love into your life. The disappointment has come, precious child of God, not because God desires to hurt you or make you miserable, or to demoralize you or ruin your life or keep you from ever knowing happiness. Rather, it comes because He wants you to be perfect and complete in every aspect, lacking nothing... God will use the disappointments of life to teach and train you and to make you more like Jesus Christ. God will use them to do something awesome: to reproduce Himself in you."
And: "Let's look at a second particularly dangerous kind of disappointment: our regrets over the past. Something I constantly have to remind myself of ... is that whatever happens, happens. Once it's done, there's no changing it. No matter how I try, I cannot erase the past... Whatever happened, happened. We can't remake our pasts. But with God we can handle the past. With God, whatever has happened in the past need not destroy us....
Where there is hope there can never be despair. .. And since He's the God of all hope, the reality that our pasts cannot be changed need not demoralize and destroy us."
and: "God is not a destroyer of us. Even when He allows us to self-destruct because of our wrong choices, even then He intervenes in His sovereignty for His children."
and: "don't ever doubt His love or concern for you as His child - no matter what you might have done, no matter what circumstances you find yourself in."
Kay Arthur's book is exceedingly encouraging and uplifting. She writes with sincere humility, and enormous faith. She has given me an entirely new understanding of why God allows life's trials, even those that I caused myself. And she lays out a path of faith for those who have stumbled, that leads away from despair.
An extraordinary book.
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