Review: Too Much Pain, Not Enough Peace
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 1, 2014
This is a hard book for me to review.  I say that because I found myself getting a little annoyed.  I'm more of a person that once you know the problem to fix the situation do what needs to be done and keep it moving, learn from your mistakes.  So I pray I do not sound insensitive nor judgemental.  This is just MY OPINION, MY THOUGHTS from what I got from reading this book.  So here goes: From the start you are rooting for Clarye and fall in love with her as she talks about her childhood.  You can feel her pain and frustrations toward her disability.  Adult hood comes and she lives and makes mistakes as we all do in life, (and here comes MY OPINION) I just felt that after you made that same mistake repeatedly at some point you will stop and learn from it.  Even a child learn from their mistakes.  If a child burn their hand touching the stove they will not go near the stove again because they remember the pain.  I found the transition in the story wasn't as smooth.  I also felt that since God was so heavily used in the story certain things should have not been done such as: When she was dating her fourth husband he spoke how they had to always put God first and trust God. I whole heartly agreed but what I didn't like was immediately after they have sex.  That is not putting God first especially if God speaks against having sex before marriage.  Putting God first means putting God's will and desires first.  My concern is non-believers reading this and thinking it's ok to believe God and still do what they want which is the opposite of God's will.  I felt there was a disconnect between Clarye prayers being released from her mouth to God's ears.  From what I have read in God's word and been taught is that when a person is in God's will, obeying his Word, He will hear your prayers.  I felt a lot of stuff she went through was of her own doing and it was hard to read of her pain, pain that could have been avoided if she asked God for wisdom, learned from her mistakes.  Our mind is powerful and if we let it, it can cause us a great deal of needless hurt and pain.  What I got out of this is that once we know WHOSE we are and WHO we are in Christ we will be able to go through this life regardless of what trails or circumstances we face knowing God loves us, we love ourselves, and knowing the Word has the answers to our everyday living.  Didn't mean to get deep..lol..Like I said MY OPINIONs and THOUGHTS.