Revelations from the many Seasons of Pain: My Conclusion

By Ayough Smith

People's credence of faith and religiosity have been observed to increase as a result of positive life events, and decrease following negative life events with only a few exceptional cases. When events such as illness or injury, divorce, and death of a loved one happen, participation and commitment in things of the faith get affected because such life experience seriously affects our sense of well-being, personal happiness, life satisfaction, and physical and emotional health.
Some of these changes are Bourne by the significance of maturational processes, social integration, and a sense of meaninglessness or irrelevance. There have been life events that have a very direct influence on religious belief and commitment making some believers re-evaluate prior “explanations of reality" especially when the functional view of religion is seen as a means to explain the unexplainable. Hence, when the unexplainable happens and present world views no longer provide an adequate explanation, individuals search for alternative explanations. Hence the popularity of books like When Bad Things Happen to Good People (Kushner 1981).
There would be some experience happening in the course of our mortal existence that can't be rationalized, even such experience as may cause our faith to crumble may be the order, serious support structures will be needed in these seasons so that we don't lose focus finally on the core of our belief, we just have to remember that there are overwhelming pieces of evidence that God exist, he loves us and he is seriously working in our favor. In such a season, there is no need for criticism but understanding and support from external sources and serious measures must be taken by close contacts not to worsen the situation, if you can't be helpful in any other way, pray for the affected person to have a Godly encounter.
Jesus said I come not for the saved but for those who are lost; so they can be rescued and brought into the kingdom of God. The purpose of this work is to encourage many going through pain, help them get more positive going through their temporary season of pain, and make them still believe in a loving God who created a wonderful universe. Everybody can learn some lessons from this to help our friends having some challenging seasons or bouts of pain. Every nation or individual has the foresight to prepare for war in a time of peace. Irrespective of how different/similar our experiences of pain/loss/suffering are, it is important that we enjoy life and not suffer in whatever season we find ourselves.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ayough Smith
• Release date: Jun 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005187903

Ayough Smith

Ayough Smith is a vast content creator and author of different non-fictional series— the masquerade behind the veil is Ogunleke Babatunde (psychology and human freedom enthusiast). He is a specialist hack and agitator for better living conditions.He is a trained Engineer and lover of music. In the little experience of over thirty years, what is becoming a meaningful enterprise is the business of creating happiness, spreading comforting information, and walking the recovery process with people that have gone through the fire of life's troublesIt will be the most fulfilling again if as many of those that go through this book find ways to encourage themself and their friends to move on with life, and get better and stronger despite all the traumatic or terrible experiences they have had so far. We wish you the best despite the many seasons of pain, we wish you the most wonderful life.

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REVELATIONS FROM THE MANY SEASONS OF PAIN; MY CONCLUSION

By Ayough Smith

DEDICATION

We dedicate this book to every person that has found themselves in one season of pain or more. We pray that you will get better. Sorrow may endure for the night, but joy comes with the morning. We pray for better seasons ahead for you as you develop your strength to scale you through that season of travail.

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ACKNOWLEDGENT

I sincerely appreciate the many hands and people whose resources contributed to the success of this book. Your time and inputs were valuable. Thanks.

Foreword

Each man follows a course of life from birth to death decided by different factors. Our paths irrespective of inherent similarities have a unique way of finding their peculiarities. There are things we can't choose for ourselves; children don't get to choose who gives birth to them. This is at least the first place where our life odyssey starts. The parent's perspective and habits as shaped by their view of life and religion guided by their environment constitute an influence on the formative early years of a child. Most children adapt their parent’s faith at least by habitual practices in the early years before peer influence/opinion and personal life experiences start constituting a determinant factor for stimulus in later years.

Over the course of a lifetime, virtually all persons experience a change in their level of religious belief and activity. Some of these changes are modest in scope; others are more dramatic, as in the case of religious conversions or loss of faith. People's credence of faith and religiosity have been observed to increase as a result of positive life events, and decrease following adverse life events with only a few exceptional cases. When events such as illness or injury, divorce, and death of a loved one happen, participation and commitment in things of the faith get affected because such life experiences seriously affect our sense of well-being, personal happiness, life satisfaction, and physical and emotional health.

Some of these changes are Bourne by the significance of maturational processes, social integration, and a sense of meaninglessness or irrelevance. There have been life events that have a straightforward influence on religious belief and commitment making some believers re-evaluate prior explanations of reality especially when the functional view of religion is seen as a means to explain the unexplainable. Hence, when the unexplainable happens and present world views no longer provide an adequate explanation, individuals search for alternative explanations. Hence the popularity of books like When Bad Things Happen to Good People (Kushner 1981).

There would be some experience happening in the course of our mortal existence that can't be rationalized, even such experience as may cause our faith to crumble may be the order, serious support structures will be needed in these seasons so that we don't lose focus finally on the core of our belief, we just have to remember that there are overwhelming shreds of evidence that God exists, he loves us and he is seriously working in our favor. In such a season, there is no need for criticism but understanding and support from external sources and serious measures must be taken by close contacts not to worsen the situation, if you can't be helpful in any other way, pray for the affected person to have a Godly encounter.

Jesus said I come not for the saved but for those who are lost; so they can be rescued and brought into the kingdom of God. The purpose of this work is to encourage many going through pain, help them get more positive going through their temporary season of pain, and make them still believe in a loving God who created a wonderful universe. Everybody can learn some lessons from this to help our friends having some challenging seasons or bouts of pain. Every nation or individual has the foresight to prepare for war in a time of peace. Irrespective of how different/similar our experiences of pain/loss/suffering are, it is important that we enjoy life and not suffer in whatever season we find ourselves.

Table of Content

Front page

Dedication Copyright disclaimer

Acknowledgement

Foreword

Table of Content

Chapter One

Introduction

The bitter pill in a small dose

Chapter Two

DIFFERENT DISTURBANCES IN THE COURSE OF LIFE

The world and its chaos

Horrors of war

The war Trauma

Consequences of War and Persecution

Generational Evil emergent from acts of war

The global trend on war traumatization

Our Experience of Illness and disease

A season of Illness sustained

When death reigns

Chapter Three

Understanding pain and suffering

Humanity in the face of terrible ordeal

Grappling with Pain

The mysterious line of Defense

How the Encounter with Pain has shaped people's ideology of God's personality

The genesis of pain and suffering

Chapter Four

CHARACTERS FORGED THROUGH EXPERIENCE

Struggling with Suffering and Pain

The growth we desire

The Testimony of Sufferers

The Problem of Happiness and Good

How the God who suffered gave us a glimpse into the end of suffering

Responding to suffering

Chapter Five

A final note

Building Resilience; Overcoming Periods of Grief

Bibliography

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

The spring of 2020 was a season nobody will forget in a hurry, early on, countries started shutting down with an initial plan for a few weeks' leave to control the spread of the covid-19 pandemic. Fast forward to June of that same year, what initially looked like a long-due holiday from the busy routine of humans was already becoming boring/stressful to many. Because of the lockdown forced on individuals, businesses, industries, mass transportation, and other economic activities had to be shut down, and personal and family finance was stressed beyond its limit. A large percentage of the global population, including day laborers, restaurant workers, maids, transport workers, agriculture laborers, construction and factory workers, petty businessmen, shop assistants, and even contractors became economically inactive during that season. Many that were initially managing to get by with some meager income from work had little or nothing to fall back on. Many families slept in hunger sometimes, other times they get a little meal from the magnanimity of charity-minded individuals or organizations that have the means, food banks came to the rescue in well-planned nations.

On several occasions that I watched the news around that time, I saw how the global outbreak and spiraling death toll from the pandemic were ravaging some climes with specific cases of countries where individuals had to buy cylinders of oxygen for sick family members with high medical bills as the pressure was high on government facilities. Medical staffs have to work round the clock putting their life at risk on the front lines of combating the Covid-19 pandemic, some even got infected and became patients themselves, and many that were not so lucky died in the heat of the commotion. Many countries had profound cases, I still can remember a President bursting into tears on international television signaling the height of helplessness faced by