The Encounter

Sometimes God Has to Intervene

  By Steve Arterburn 

The encounter is a book that will help you look into your life to make better choices that will allow you to heal. If there is something in your life that you feel you need to work on, this could be the book to help you do it. Even if you were living in the worst possible abusive situation or the most neglectful and disconnected relationship, you may have built a wall that keeps you stuck in a dark place where you don't have to stay. Once you take responsibility, you will find new hope and insight as you get your life unstuck and move past your wall.

I've read a boat-load of Christian books, but consistent emotional health seems to continue slipping from my desperate grasp.   I highly recommend this book and if you are like me have a pen, paper and marker handy as you will be using them and  I know there's a lesson there for me and everyone who reads this wonderful book.  The book starts out great, listing for us the personal and interpersonal traits of unsafe people, such as being defensive instead of open to feedback, only apologizing instead of changing their behavior, demanding trust instead of earning it, resisting freedom instead of encouraging it, staying in parent/child roles instead of relating as equals, being a negative rather than a positive influence on us, and being unstable over time instead of being consistent. 

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