{"id":118189,"date":"2025-03-06T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=118189"},"modified":"2025-03-07T00:38:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T06:38:54","slug":"disrupted-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=118189","title":{"rendered":"Disrupted Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"7be4512a-8149-4c3f-b9c1-7b0e8aca13e6\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph has-drop-cap\">I am convinced it is appropriate to acknowledge those who bear with chronic pain and illness and that it is especially fitting to give special honor to do those who do so with a deep sense of submission to God\u2019s mysterious purposes in their suffering. But if that\u2019s true, I believe it is also appropriate to give honor to those who walk with them and care for them.<\/p>\n<aside data-beyondwords-marker=\"5a17f9fd-f117-4fb1-8cac-76907f65d497\" class=\"wp-block-group alignright challies-book is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-is-layout-3 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" id=\"book\">\n<header data-beyondwords-marker=\"fa6a67ef-8be3-4772-a84e-e6c7b6cc4aee\" class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-is-layout-2 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"> Disrupted Journey <\/p>\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"83c2be33-6d31-4e24-b0ed-66cacd7df7d4\" class=\"wp-block-group book-meta is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"4860d21c-814c-4594-84f6-fa20b4893a78\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph book-author\">Nate Brooks<\/p>\n<figure data-beyondwords-marker=\"1a9d10f0-1398-40b2-be5b-798c147912b4\" class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-medium book-cover has-box-shadow\">\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"6ff57b68-532f-418a-8fa9-2f603d2d9a93\" class=\"wp-block-buttons book-links is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"6f029d7a-5a01-45e6-ac31-6093386eba54\" class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/book-reviews\/disrupted-journey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy from Amazon<\/a>   <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"dee20348-b354-4ebf-b67b-93d40fe35b7d\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As much as we acknowledge the difficulties inherent in chronic pain and long illnesses, we also need to acknowledge that suffering is never only personal. Rather, suffering extends outward to spouses, family members, and other caretakers. They, too, deserve recognition and they, too, need support. It is for these carers that Nate Brooks has written <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/book-reviews\/disrupted-journey\/\">Disrupted Journey: Walking with Your Loved One Through Chronic Pain and Illness<\/a><\/em> (which<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am convinced it is appropriate to acknowledge those who bear with chronic pain and illness and that it is especially fitting to give special honor to do those who do so with a deep sense of submission to God\u2019s mysterious purposes in their suffering. But if that\u2019s true, I believe it is also appropriate to give honor to those who walk with them and care for them.See AlsoJoni\u2019s Songs of SufferingThe Commandment We Forgot: Honoring the DishonorableThanksgiving &#038; The Appropriate Number of Prepositions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":118202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[854],"class_list":["post-118189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-book-reviews","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/maeva-vigier-8L85v53b8C0-unsplash-1-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118203,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118189\/revisions\/118203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}