As Silver Refined - Learning to Embrace Life's Disappointments, by Kay Arthur

    Your expectations are not met. Someone you love disappoints you. Hope has
    turned to despair. You are emotionally fatigued, spiritually numb, and you want to
    give up. In this compassionate and encouraging book, Kay Arthur shows that the
    times you feel that life is slipping through your fingers are the very moments when
    you are most securely held in the grip of God's love. With her warm and personal
    touch, Kay explains that God eventually brings every believer through the crucible
    of suffering. But when you view your circumstances through His eyes, you see that
    the hard times are not be avoided, but embraced. Trials are never meant to
    destroy your confidence, but to deepen your faith, proving through experience that
    with the pain comes provision, in the person of the Holy Spirit, to patiently endure--
    until the dross of self is consumed, a sterling character is revealed, and you are
    polished to reflect the gleaming image of the Silversmith. WaterBrook Press, 276
    pages.

    Finding God: Moving Through Your Problems Toward Finding God, by Dr. Larry
    Crabb

    Dr. Larry Crabb helps readers understand that instead of using God to solve their
    problems, they need to use their problems to find God.

    What is more important to you—solving your problems or Finding God? In today’s
    psychological culture, we have become a people more concerned with solving our
    problems than finding God. Suffer low self-esteem? Get counseling. Unfulfilled in
    life? Join a recovery group. But solving problems is not the point, argues Dr. Larry
    Crabb. In fact, whenever we place a higher priority on solving our problems than
    on pursuing God, we are being immoral! Dr. Crabb demonstrates that our
    deepest problem and worst sin is doubting God. When we doubt God’s
    goodness, when we think that God cannot be trusted with the things that matter
    most, we will quietly—but with tight-lipped resolve—take over responsibility for our
    own well being—with disastrous results. In his most compelling book since
    Inside Out, Dr. Crabb upsets the cozy Christianity of the modern believer. He
    reveals a new God’s top priority: not our comfort and gratification, but His glory. Not
    since Chuck Colson’s Loving God has a book so clearly challenged readers to
    fruitful Christian living. As Larry Crabb writes, "You know you’re finding God when
    you believe that God is good - no matter what happens."

    Larry Crabb’s Finding God takes the reader on the most exciting journey of all - the
    journey through our problems to finding God. Zondervan Publishing, 240 pages.

    Hope for the Troubled Heart, by Dr. Billy Graham

    In this straightforward book, Billy Graham boldly asks the questions: "Where is
    God in my suffering?" "What good is prayer?" and "Why is there so much personal
    pain?" His biblically-based answers are realistic, trustworthy, and comforting.




    Empty Womb, Aching Heart, by Marlo M. Schalesky

    When the professional advice isn't enough, and you've had your fill of well-
    meaning comments from those who haven't experienced infertility, Marlo
    Schalesky wants you to know you are not alone. The true stories she tells of
    couples who share your hopes, fears, frustrations, and the comfort only God can
    bring will encourage your heart.

    Infertility strikes at the core of what it means to be a woman or man, tests
    marriages, and shakes faith. The honest, open, and emotionally resonant first-
    person stories in Empty Womb, Aching Heart will touch your life—as you "cry in the
    diaper aisle," wonder if you "are less of a woman," ask "How far should we go?" or
    whisper to God, "It's not fair."
Resources
Sheltering Tree Fertility Support Group