How to Find the Purpose in Your Pain: Book Excerpt 1
Have you ever asked God, “Lord, why am I going through this?” Have you ever wondered, “Will I ever heal from this pain?” We all have moments where we go through pain. However, rarely do we get to experience the purpose behind the trial and the blessing behind the mess. My new e-book, How to Find the Purpose in Your Pain, will teach you how to find purpose in the deepest areas of trauma and hurt in your life so you can learn how to find the hidden good behind your greatest struggles.
Book Excerpt from the “Introduction” chapter:
If you’ve picked this book up, you’ve likely faced some type of pain in your life and you’re wondering the question that so many of us ask ourselves, “Why am I going through this?”
In life, pain is inevitable. However, the outcome of the pain is up to you. When I say “outcome,” I mean what you receive in return for going through a difficult season.
In life, pain is the one issue that connects every human being. No matter who you are or where you are from, at some point in life, you’ll have to go through some type of painful experience.
Grief, failure, and mistakes are all a part of our human experience. While we all have witnessed pain, we haven’t all been as fortunate to benefit from the pain.
So many of us, including myself at times, have gone through hurtful experiences without ever reaping the beneficial lesson, reward, or relationship that was to blossom from that time in our life. This is because we become so distracted by our hurt that we neglect to ask God, “Lord, what do you want to do with this? How do you want to use it to bless me and others?”
Yes, pain is hurtful. But the experience was never meant to stop at the hurt.
You were meant to keep pushing forward through the race to reach the other side of the victory. The victory can’t occur without the race and you’ll never see it if you’re always quitting before you get to the finish line.
This is why I wrote this book. As I looked back on the multitude of pains in my life, I could observe times when I missed the blessing because I was too distracted by my hurt.
I missed the opportunities to draw closer to Christ and learn more about Him in my struggles.
I missed the blessings and the newfound strength that awaited my resilience.
I missed the open doors and the favor that comes with being agile in difficult seasons.
Even worse, because I missed the lessons I was supposed to learn, I found myself in unnecessary cycles that God never intended for me to keep walking into. This is all because I didn’t know that there are “benefits gained by the proper response to suffering” (Women’s Study Bible, 1450).
So, I wrote this book not only to encourage you through your pain but also so that you could learn to benefit from your heartache.
Well, I suppose at this point you may be wondering, “Who is this girl writing this book?”
Okay, so this may be a good time to introduce myself. After all, it is the introduction chapter of the book.
Well, my name is Jordone.
In my life, I have endured more than the average amount of pain, grief, and trauma.
As a child, I witnessed and experienced physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. As an adult, I had a stillborn daughter and a miscarriage only months apart from one another.
As a single mother, I deal with the pain of my first husband’s infidelity and how it tore our family apart.
As a daughter, I dealt with the grief of my father’s untimely passing and wondered why God chose to carry him to heaven at the same time I was mourning my failed marriage.
Since you picked this book up, I’m sure you have your own pain that you’re overcoming. I hope that as you turn the pages in these remaining chapters, you’ll find the good in what you’ve been through. {Book Sample Ends Here}
Love,
