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"Running from God doesn't work. I had tried out." -Roger Benimoff As he kept for his second travel of work as an Army chaplain in Iraq, Roger Benimoff observed in his journal: I am fired up and I am scared. I am burning for God...He is my hope, durability, and focus. But not long after time for Iraq, the burdens of his job - the memorial services for military killed in action, the therapy sessions after contact with the foe, the perilous excursions "beyond your wire" while under foe fire - started to overwhelm him. Amid the particles, heat, and blood of Iraq, Benimoff sensed the pillar of durability he'd always relied to carry him up - his trust in God - commence to crumble. Struggling to make sense of the senseless, Benimoff turned to his journal. What achieved it mean to trust in a God who would allow the utter horror and injustice of conflict? Do He want these brave young men and women to perish? In his darkest minute, Benimoff had written: Why am I so upset? I do not want anything to do with God. I am fed up with religion. It is a crutch for the poor. Benimoff's spiritual problems heightened upon his return home to Fort Carson, Colorado. He withdrew psychologically from better half and sons, creating tensions that threatened to shatter the family. He was allocated to work at Walter Reed Army INFIRMARY, where he counseled returning soldiers experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder-until he was diagnosed himself with PTSD. Finding himself in the role of patient somewhat than caregiver, linking as an equal with his fellow sufferers, and revisiting scriptural readings that once again rang with meaning and fact, he started his most decisive fight: for the love of his family and for the chance to once again start his heart and soul to the therapeutic elegance of God. Close and powerful, pulling on Benimoff's and his wife's publications, Faith Under Fireplace chronicles a religious struggle through conflict, reduction, and the hard process of learning to believe again.
