How to Pray When You're Pissed at God: Or Anyone Else for That Matter
By Ian Punnett
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When things really go wrong, what do you do with the feeling that God is to blame? A popular Coast to Coast radio host (and Episcopal clergy) provides some answers. In a first of its kind book, Ian Punnett provides a spiritual path for expressing your rawest emotions through prayer and how to rebuild a relationship with one's higher power--or anybody else in your life.
In this important and practical book, Ian Punnett provides insight on feeling anger and resentment toward God and offers advice on how to deal with the pain and blame that accompanies these emotions. In a book that is edgy, timely, funny and compassionate, Punnett presents real help in everyday language for transforming the negativity of anger into a positive and useful force that will ultimately help us pray more effectively, bring us closer to God, enhance our spiritual relationship, and change the way we live and love others.
After a divorce, a broken friendship, the death of a loved one, the loss of a job or even the accumulation of all the tiny cracks in our spirit from life's disappointments, it’s easy to feel pissed at God. When anger is left unchecked, it is harmful to our minds, bodies and souls.
“How to Pray When You’re Pissed at God is not “the last word” on angry prayer,” Punnett writes, “but it might be the first words you have ever heard on the topic. By the end of the book, it is my hope that you’ll understand the role of anger in our lives, the benefit of honest prayer, and the need for honest, angry prayer in the lives of the faithful and faithless.”
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Reviews for How to Pray When You're Pissed at God
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Quick read from a very down-to-earth Episcopal clergy. Valuable lessons.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5ARC provided by NetGalleyOne of the things I struggle with a lot when talking to God is how do I talk to him when I'm angry, when I'm pissed off that just when things seem to be going well the rug is jerked out from under me? And while I've ranted some at him, it always feels like the wrong thing to do. But in this book Ian Punnett talks about how not only is ranting at God in your prayer a good and healthy thing for your life, the Bible actually tells you how. Pulling from multiple sources from all areas of life, Ian leads us on a journey of how people from the Old and New Testaments shouted out to God when they were angry. Ian writes as if he's sitting there talking with us, as if we're close friends instead of an author/reader relationship, which makes it easier to understand what he's saying. He shares his own experiences with counseling others with their anger and dealing with his own. So instead of like so many other books where the authors just seem to be spouting some new philosophy that they don't believe in, Ian practices what he preaches. The one problem with the book is that Ian sometimes quotes others too much, instead of just letting his own words and experiences do the talking. While the quotes are relevant it is a bit annoying to see such large passages at times. Overall though this is a great read and one that I'll come back to multiple times. I give it 3.5 out of 5 stars.