Vaneetha Rendall Risner, writing in her book, The Scars that Have Shaped Me: How God Meets us in Suffering.
“I used to respond by actively refocusing my mind, determined to have a positive attitude.
But doing so left me even emptier and unhappier than before.
Then I realized that Scripture never mandates that we constantly act upbeat.
God wants us to come to him in truth.
And so the Bible doesn’t whitewash the raw emotions of its writers as they cry out to God in anguish, fear, and frustration when life ceases to make sense.”
