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A Faith Book about Spiritual Doubt

4/22/2019

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It's Easter Monday and today, we're exploring a faith book about  how to handle doubt as a woman of faith...

Doubt like Thomas's can be a positive thing, especially if it brings us closer to God. Doubt can help shape our faith. - Sheryl Giesbrecht Turner
faith book for women, faith book for moms


I think what I love most about this book is her effort to normalize doubt, as part of the Christian experience.

I used to feel guilty about my own doubt, seeing it as a flaw and a weakness. I thought that if I were a better Christian, I would have certainty, instead.

But in the book, the author suggests that doubt can actually help us create a closer relationship with God. That it can become a passageway both to deeper trust and to certainty.

 I invite you to grow comfortable with doubting.
- Sheryl Griesbrecht Turner


What about You?

 
In your faith tradition, how is doubt handled? And what do you believe about it?

When you experience it, how do you react?

I have always wished it away. But because I was raised in an academic, prove-it-to-me kind of family, I have often struggled with it.

The book suggests accepting it, instead, and shows you how to use it as a launching pad into a deeper faith.

So, if you also tend to be a doubting Thomas, and would rather be a faith-filled Mary or Martha, I highly recommend this wise, comforting book. I loved it the whole way through.

Below the quote, I've included part of an interview where the author talks more about the book and about dealing with doubt.

And by the way, if you like reading inspirational books, get access to my lifestyle library, where I've got an article with links to all the faith book blog posts I've written, all in one place.

My lifestyle library also includes articles about slow living, hygge at home, perfecting your morning routine & other lifestyle topics.

See you next time!

Love, Jeanine

If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt. If doubt is eventually justified, we were believing what clearly was not worth believing. But if doubt is answered, our faith has grown stronger. I know God more certainly and I can enjoy God more deeply. There is no believing without some doubting, and believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt. - Os Guinness
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Eydie link
4/22/2019 10:29:40 am

I've always had doubts about faith. After my husband died - my faith died along with him. But, slowly, like the healing process, I began to see my faith returned. Like you, I felt that doubt was wrong - but, it actually helped me sort things out.

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Jeanine Byers link
4/22/2019 11:32:57 am

Eydie, I have had the same experience, that acknowledging my doubts helped me think & work through them. I can certainly understanding how losing someone you love could take your faith right along with it. But I'm glad to know that your healing process returned it.

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Martha link
4/23/2019 12:37:56 pm

My granddaughter would always doubt herself because of the abuse she was put through but she wrote the most heartwarming blog about faith and how she came up with her daughter's name, Lia Faith. She had doubt but faith got her through.

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Jeanine Byers link
4/23/2019 07:05:44 pm

That's wonderful, Martha! I have experienced abuse, too, and I know it can get in the way of our faith. It can be part of the problem with doubt. That's why I don't believe anyone should be out down for having doubts. So glad your granddaughter's faith got her through!

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