After the Story - Choices Like Rivers - Episode 27
After the Story - Choices Like Rivers - Episode 27
This podcast discusses each chapter of Choices Like Rivers and each episode is posted directly after the book episode. This corresponds to Chapter 10 Section 2.
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Sharon has no foundation of hope or faith for that matter to undergird her emotional foundation, so with each adverse winds she crumbles.
In her mind God is not a good god. She has blamed him for every bad thing that has ever happened to her so she can only imagine that yet again he will punish her with something bad.
I’ve met countless people in my life that blamed God for everything bad that happened in their life. They were cold and bitter where God was concerned.
However, God is a good god. If there is pain or suffering in our life it can come from many sources. It can come from our own poor decisions, it can come from just life in general in this fallen world of ours.
It can also come from the enemy. It says clearly in the bible that Satan comes to steal, kill, and destroy. Jesus died so that we can have life and life more abundant.
Those are two diametrically opposed things. Satan never does anything but take, harm, and disrupt. Our pain gives him pleasure.
But God had made a way to give us genuine life, joy, and happiness. He doesn’t promise continual rose gardens but provides tools to weather those storms of life anchored to him.
Often those angry at God will suggest that since he is God, if he was good, he would stop all the pain or he wouldn’t allow this and that to happen.
But, he has given us a free will to do as we please. He has given us the choice on how we live and how we conduct our lives.
It is more than hypocritical to wrench the power of our lives away from him allowing him no input or instruction, until it all goes awry and we have the audacity to blame him for the horrible outcome.
We can’t have it both ways. We can’t want total control over out whole life then blame him for not taking control.
We may feel temporary remorse during those times of pain only to wrench ourselves back from him when all things seem rosy again.
Sharon is in a fixed state of anger towards God. She may try to conjure up hope from somewhere inside of her, but it is a natural humanistic hope not based on anything powerful or real and certainly not sustainable.
We see the growing problem of her dependence on alcohol. The tougher things get, the greater her need to mask the pain. She knows in her heart what is coming, dreads what is coming and can’t bear the pain of it.
She does call the attorney but is in a state of panic and slams the phone down before she can complete the task. But, Molly Sue is there, quick to comfort.
Was the visit with the social worker as bad as Sharon dreaded it was, or was it just her fear speaking? Will her constant dread of it all be a self-fulfilling prophecy or will she be able to pull it together with the help of an attorney, and solid friends?
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