Have you ever faltered in your faith during heartbreaking trials? You

wondered if you could conti o piritual journey. Maybe

you ve walked away from your faith daring trving times or wandered in a dry

r spiritual wasteland searching for God but not finding Him. Have you been

spiritually disappointed with yoarselt~-and God? You questioned if you d ever

find your way back to the Lord or if He would ever find you again.

A loss or series of losses can cause us to question our faith ai:d feel over-

whelming emotional and spiritual pain. We wonder if God even cares. We

struggle with conflicts between what we expect from God and what we actu-

ally experience. During trials we don t have the spiritual victory we hear about

from books, messages, and tile claims of other Christians.

We re hounded by nagging guilt and even shame that our faith isn t

strong enough to hold up in suffering. We may struggle with anger, bitter-

ness, depression, and fear.

We spiritually waver, wanting to hang onto our faith one moment, and

the next we want to give up. We know we should trust the Lord and release

our burdens into His care. But we can t seem to do it, and we don t under-

stand why we iust can t get over our pain or why God doesn t do something

to relieve us.

If you relate to such spiritual struggles, join me and many other

Christians. This pilgrimage of Faith is a spiritual quest, a lifelong journey in a

single direction to our heavenly destination. But if you re like llaC, you feel

lost at times. You feel as if you re spiritually taking the long way around to

get where yon belong.

What makes our pilgrimage difficult and sometimes scar) is that the road

we travel on is perilous. Heartbreaking losses and trials block our pathway and

test oar faith. Some of us get stuck and can t get past emotional and spiritual

roadblocks.

This book was wtittcn to help us get over those obstacle