Sacred Struggle

Seeking Christ on the Path of Most Resistance

De: Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye

Narrado por: Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye

We are part of a complex Church community―full of people who think differently than we do, behave in ways we don’t always agree with, and have lived experiences we don’t share. To make things even more difficult, we also have to deal with the foibles of the people around us, our own weaknesses and sins, and the ever-present promise of suffering and sorrow in our own lives and the lives of the people we love. With all that threatens to push us further away from our brothers and sisters in and out of the Church, how can we love and support each other? How do we create meaning from our suffering? And how can we grow close to God when our own pain might lead us to wonder whether He really has the best plan in mind for us?

In Sacred Struggle: Seeking Christ on the Path of Most Resistance, author and scholar Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye explores her own personal experiences within her church community, her profession, and her battle with cancer to provide some answers about how we can learn to love and appreciate the diverse collection of experiences we’re surrounded by and subjected to. Through her faithful, compassionate lens and supported by the words of academics, scripture, and Latter-day prophets and apostles, Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye shares her personal testimony of the power of Christ to understand―and relieve―our suffering while inviting us to love and support those who might sometimes be the cause of it.

©2023 Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye (P)2023 Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye

Honesty

Loved this book! Melissa is so real and her insights well researched and understandable. So sad she’s not with us to keep up the good fight!

love this book

I waited for months on the wait list from my local library to get this book. I was so excited to see it on sale, but I wish I would have just bought it and read it sooner. Very insightful and loving. Melissa addresses many challenges, and controversies in the church of latter day saints, while drawing from teachings of the Savior.

read this!!

how do I put into only a few words the influence of this dear sister in my heart, mind, and even my prayers? Her humility and courage, her meekness and strength, her convictions and testimony of Christ and of God's goodness to all His children anchor into my yearnings for God and those in my circle of experience.

Her way if expression!!

I loved the entire book. I read it and then listened to it and followed along. Extremely helpful for dealing with life’s struggles

The author was very sincere! What great insight!

Melissa has can look at things with a critical yet loving perspective. Her honesty about her own experience was heartwarming!

Transforming

So grateful for Melissa’s words and insights into life and spirituality. This book has given me so much to dissect and think about in my own life.

Beautiful and honest

I loved this book. So much valuable considerations for latter-day saints and everyone looking to understand their trails and how it fits into this plan and faith.

Worth the struggle

I loved how Melissa spoke about culture, gender concerns relating to the Church of Jesus Christ. it opened my eyes ti another perspective to issues that trouble others that I couldn't relate with until Melissa provided it perspective and content to why they may think that way

The most brilliant masterpiece on diversity in latter-day Saint culture and the beauty there of

Melissa has so many insights into human nature, into diversity of culture and people. It is amazing how she weaves it into latter-day Saint culture! Into being a true disciple of Christ!