When I Got on the Highway to Heaven . . . I Didn't Expect Rocky Roads

by Zornes, Jeanne

• ISBN13: 9780825441622
• ISBN10: 0825441625
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Kregel Pubns

Summary

There are plenty of detours on the way to our Promised Land. Like the Israelites in the wilderness, at times we find ourselves lost on our journey, without food, and desperate for water. Author and speaker Jeanne Zornes takes a humorous and poignant look at the tough times of life through the stories of people who have faced insurmountable obstacles--the athlete who contracted polio, the wife whose husband abandoned the family--and she shows how God used their circumstances to bring these people closer to Him.

Table of Contents

Foreword	9	(11)
Acknowledgments	11	(2)
Introduction	13	(2)
This Road Doesn't Go There
Despair and Hope	15	(12)
Wrong Number, God!
Cowardice and Duty	27	(14)
Stuck between the Devil and the Deep Red Sea
Fear and Fortitude	41	(14)
Going the Wrong Way on a One-Way Street
Bitterness and Forgiveness	55	(12)
You Expect Me to Eat That?
Ingratitude and Thankfulness	67	(14)
When the Water Bottles Run Out . . .
Discouragement and Trust	81	(14)
There Are Monsters under the Bed!
Defeatism and Anticipation	95	(14)
Are We There Yet?
Impatience and Self-control	109	(12)
Where There's Smoke There's Ire
Forgetfulness and Remembrance	121	(14)
There Are Giants over There!
Pessimism and Certainty	135	(12)
I'll Do It My Way
Pride and Submission	147	(14)
Why Me?
Grumbling and Reconciliation	161	(12)
From Whiners to Winners
Disbelief and Appropriation	173	(14)
Notes	187