With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies?

WHY BAD THINGS HAPPEN? Despite reading accounts of tragedies such as Hurricane Katrina and the Virginia Tech shootings, many people are often shocked when bad things actually happen to them. They are left with unanswered questions, and those that are religious sometimes even doubt their faith. Why do bad things happen to good people? Perhaps an updated account of a Biblical story can provide the modern reader with the necessary answers.With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies? uses the Book of Job as a motivational teaching tool. Few people will ever have to endure losing family, wealth and health all at once as Job did, but most will go through a number of tragedies. Armstrong explores how a personal foundation of beliefs is a critical component to resiliently bouncing back when the world knocks you to the ground and everything seems helpless. Those in pain and suffering, wondering why and searching for hope will find this to be a tale of self-help.