The many challenges life throws at us do not shape us. How we
respond to these challenges does. In "The Beautiful
Disappointment" urban youth worker and author, Colin
McCartney, shares his personal struggles in dealing with the murder
of one of his staff, the death of a child in his program and his
own near death experience from a paralyzing water accident in
Hawaii. While the author was recovering from this life threatening
accident in the critical care unit of Maui Memorial Hospital he
slowly realizes that trials are "beautiful
disappointments" God can use to purge us off all the false
things we have allowed to disfigure who we truly are. It is through
this "refining by trials" that the author experiences the
intimate presence of God, a presence in our soul that frees us to
reconnect to who we truly are as God originally created us to be. A
true story that will leave the reader truly changed.
