Pick Up The Problem Of Suffering: A Fathers Hope Crafted By Gregory P. Schulz Displayed As Leaflet

recommend this book to everyone, whether you have experienced the death of a child or not, This book while small in size will not be read as quickly as a novel of the same size, This book will challenge you, cause you to do some deepthinks, rereading, break preconceived notions about the work of Christ, and help you come away with a greater understanding of the roll of suffering in your life.
This book will lead you to hope, it will lead you to love, it will lead you to Christ, I am not a reader of deep theology as most times I don't understand it all and while I know I didn't catch the same things my Pastor, husband caught, it is a book that I will come back to from time to time to glean more wisdom and insight from.
I cannot imagine living with the suffering that the author lives with but I am grateful for his work in sharing the suffering and the roll and work of Christ in and through it all with his readers.
I can't remember the last time I was cast into weeping through "mere" words, But this book is a wordless cry wrestled, molded, melted brokenly into words that speak pure grief and hope in the way that only Christianity can speak.
It's painful, raw, anguished and beautiful, Much in the way that David sang in the Psalms, Gregory Schulz has gifted the world with this little book that should be made readily available for anyone seeking comfort in pain, or seeking to comfort others in pain.
This is a deeply personal meditation but even more so, Schulz within the depths of grief looks beyond this decaying world to the hope that is to come in Heaven, offering comfort and healing even while he himself is broken, and revealing to me and all readers our deep brokenness hidden behind facades that only grief and shock can strip away.


EDIT/ADDITION

This book is a Lutheran fathers lament to Godhis theodicyover the death of his oneyearold daughter and his fourteenyearold son, after both suffered deeply their entire lives from different ailments.
Schulz is also an LCMS ordained pastor who teaches philosophy at Concordia University Wisconsin,



This would be a good resource to share with parents, especially fathers, who are dealing with grief over the loss of a child of any age.
This book is parallel with the laments of J, Todd Billings Rejoicing in Lament and C, S. Lewis A Grief Observed, but from a confessional Lutheran perspective, It is Christcentered, and proclaims the theology of the cross in the midst of intense suffering, The Problem of Suffering is a superb resource to share and to use with anyone suffering any form of loss, It is honest, straightforward, expressive, evocative of much reflection and insight, and linked closely to the suffering Savior, Author Gregory Schulz speaks as a Christian father, sharing the very personal, difficult struggle of dealing with years of pain, suffering, and questions, As he shares his struggle, he bares his soul with a jarring honesty seldom heard in the church, His protest is against "God's abusive actions," and it rings true to anyone who's suffering of body or spirit,

Also included is an epilogue of prayers and poems written by sufferers,

From the Foreword
Warning: After youve read this book youll never be the same again, You will be challenged by its intellectual depth, encouraged by its spiritual consolation, and blown away by its honesty, Like a rollercoaster, it will lift you to dizzying heights of insight, plunge you down into the deepest imaginable human pain, then lift you out again into hope.


Pain and suffering come in different sizes and intensities for different people, but they come inevitably to us all, A lot of ink has been spilled over the centuries on the socalled “problem of evil,” but theres not much help in that, Anyone who has personally experienced the mindnumbing and gutwrenching impact of suffering, pain, or loss can tell you the last thing anyone needs in the midst of that mess is intellectual reflection and explanation.
What you need is the honest truth, And such honesty is rarely pleasant,

Gregory Shulz is professor of philosophy at Wisconsin Lutheran College, Milwaukee, He is an ordainded Lutheran pastor and hold earned doctorates in theology, He is also a senior officer in the U, S. Air Force's Civil Air patrol where he teaches and is qualified in search and rescue, .