Wednesdays were Pretty Normal: A Boy, Cancer, And God
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Overview
“Wednesdays were pretty normal,” writes Michael Kelley, looking for a bright spot amidst the chemotherapy routine brought on by his two-year-old son Joshua’s cancer diagnosis. His book of the same name offers much to anyone who’s tired of prescriptive spirituality and would rather acknowledge and work through the difficulties of faith with some transparency.
Joshua battled and beat the disease, but not before his family had to reconcile what it means to believe in God despite a broken world. His dad’s personal account of that fight to survive sparks a larger discussion of how Christians must learn to walk in the light of Christ’s promises despite the dark shadows of earthly pain. Indeed, it’s pain that sometimes opens the door to a deeper experience with Jesus, an authentic relationship that holds steady even when life loses the comfort of normalcy.
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Top Highlights
“Redemption is about the confidence that God is bringing good out of the bad, prosperity out of desolation. God's not interested in evening things out; He's interested in taking those things which are so painful, earth-shattering, and devastating and turning them into marks of His goodness and kindness.” (source)
“What if our definition of faith is wrong? What if we have been putting faith in our own ability to have faith? What if real faith is not necessarily absent of questions and doubt; what if real faith is more about what we do with doubt than whether we have it?” (source)
“But this was a moment when we couldn't just have faith; we had to choose faith. It had to be as conscious as any other decision; like choosing to exercise in the morning, faith needed to be discipline.” (source)
“Live in the present. Rejoice in the present. Cry in the present. Be fully alive in the present, because He is "I am."” (source)
“What we really needed was God. We needed the who much more than the why” (source)