Release the Pain, Embrace the Joy by Michelle Mckinney Hammond

Release the Pain, Embrace the Joy by Michelle Mckinney Hammond

Through close readings of overlooked tales and new angles on well-known ones, Lori Miles opens up paths through the Bible that you've never seen before.

Uncovering the tracks of the Divine, she probes deeply into God's statements and silences, revealing a gripping saga of oscillating progressions and regressions, in such stories as:
- The Garden of Eden and the Curiosity Tree
- The magic chest, surmounted by two golden statues of angels, and a seat for God to sit on
- Esau as overlooked First Saint in the Bible

Weaving her magical way through back roads and undiscovered trails in the Good Book, Miles also champions those down-and-out creatures who have normally lived only on the margins of our consciousness:
- Hagar and her young son Ishmael, cast out from Abraham's tent onto the vast nothingness of the barren desert
- That Much-Maligned Caller-Up-of-the-Dead, the Witch of Endor
- King David's long-suffering wife Michal--who is married to the mob

Traversing biblical landscapes and seeking out the shifting lairs of the divine, Miles opens up a world with stubbornness, tragedy, and even humor. Her sum-up: God needs us as much as we need Him; I think God is looking for a new kind of covenant with us.

After diving into these fresh pages, you will never read the Bible with quite the same eyes again.

As a bestselling author, speaker, singer and television host, Michelle McKinney Hammond has authored over 40 books (selling over two million copies worldwide) including best-selling titles The Diva Principle, Sassy, Single and Satisfied, Secrets of An Irresistible Woman and 101 Ways To Get and Keep His Attention. Michelle's passion is to give relevant and workable solutions to people's questions through solid and effective principles that will help her audience navigate through the journey of life and reach the ultimate destination of living and loving to their fullest potential.