Is Disappointment an Affront to God?

Excerpted from my book, Disappointment with God

Excerpted from my book, Disappointment with God

“The view of the Bible is that it is far better to be sincerely discouraged and world-weary than to pretend enthusiasm; better to be authentically sad than to be artificially happy;
better to have honest doubt than phony faith.”
Mike Mason

“Avoid toxic positivity.”
Phillip Yancey

“Christianity is the only religion in the world where you are allowed to disagree with God.” Brother Andrew

At my core I’m an artist who is slow to show others my work in progress.

I admittedly fear criticism. Sharing a partially completed painting with someone else’s eyes is a risk. They cannot see what my vision is, where I’m headed with this work. It puts them in a hard spot. Do they lie and say it’s wonderful when it appears a complete mess? Do I hurriedly put into words what I’m envisioning?

One day my dear husband, who is not at all like me, proudly declared to a friend of ours that I was writing a book on disappointment with God. There was no time to elaborate or explain what the concept was about. He simply laid it on the table.