Is Life Fair? Good Words for Hard Times
The words in Is Life Fair? are leftovers of my quarrel with myself.  They are the quiet confessions of one who has seen the thinness of "conventional wisdom orthodoxy" and a kind of religious optimism that can border on superstition.  I have this long, unresolved quarrel inside of myself.  It will no longer let me say some of the expected words I am supposed to say.  In the face of the question with which I quarrel, "Why doesn't God do more?"  I am left with the simple confessions that stumble about inside the walls of Is Life Fair? - timid attempts to say something livable, honest, and unadorned about the God who always does more than we can ever know, but who sometimes does less than we had always hoped. - from the Preface to the 2nd edition"As surely as God originally moved across the waters, God moves now across the pages of Chuck Poole's book.  The author is obviously a child of God, a joyful servant, and a gift to this unlettered layman.  These sermons are tantalizingly thought-provoking but clarifyingly reassuring.  I recommend them wholeheartedly, but they should be read one at a time; they are too rich to be digested at one sitting." -Ferrol Sams, Jr., M.D., Author of Run with the Horsemen, The Whisper of the River, and When All the World Was Young"Sooner or later everyone has pain for which there seems to be no answer.  None of us are immune.  Because my family has experienced the depth of this pain, I am glad to have 'good words for hard times.'  With his gentle voice, Dr. Poole provides comfort and lasting hope." -Donald E. Baxter, M.D., Past President, American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society