Who is God When We Hurt: A Pastor-Caregiver wrestles with grief, loss, faith, & doubt

"I’m sorry. It reads like Multiple Sclerosis. There is treatment. Go see the neurologist. He will know what to do now.”With those words, Beth Scibienski’s life changed. Pete, her husband, had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. In Who is God When We Hurt, Beth, a newly-ordained pastor at the time of her husband’s diagnosis, tells stories of loss and grief, faith and doubt, from her own life, and from life as the pastor of a dynamic, loving, community of faith.So often people question “where is God when we hurt?” Beth’s experience has shown her that God was readily present in the people who surrounded her, and her parishioners, when they were hurting. Rather than “where is God,” a better question might be, “who is God when we hurt?”