Broken for Good
How Grief Awoke My Greatest Hopes
by Rebecca Rene Jones
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Pub Date Apr 05 2016 | Archive Date Oct 28 2016
FaithWords / Center Street | FaithWords
Description
Like so many Christian women, Rebecca, her mother, and her two sisters love a man who does not walk beside them in faith. As his cancer returns after a year of remission, they face his last days. As the women in his life struggle to savor their final times together and let go, he finally reaches out to God, and tells them so. Her father's death opens the landscape of heaven and hope to her. She beautifully renders those visions as well as the underbelly of sorrow as she is finally forced to wake up to the world, to new hungers, and to a far more dangerous faith. Here is a spiritual coming of age manifesto that will take its place alongside Voskamp and Lamott as uplifting writing on loss, grief, and growing up, quick.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781455538065 |
| PRICE | $20.00 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Linda J, Reviewer
I appreciated her honesty about her struggles and God's faithfulness.
Mary G, Reviewer
When you speak from the heart of love, life, loss, and faith the words tend to be so real they hurt the writer and reader. With the story that Rebecca has poured her soul into on these pages is about the relationship between a father and daughter, between faith and understanding, but also about loss and the rebuilding of a life left behind that at 17 is still finding its place in the world. While this could have been depressing or foreboding, instead it is filled with the joy that God has given us in his words of inspiration and vision for not what we see as thing s should be but how they are.
Rebecca weaves the story of her life during the days of happiness when her father was healthy and strong and continues past his death showing the steps she and her family took to heal and rebuild not a new life but a different version of how family is constructed. Her faith is always beside her and the love of HIS warm arms around her guiding decisions and choices remains front and center knowing that at times HE guides and others lets her go about leading without intrusion.
This is a story of family, faith, learning to love and love again, wrapped in joy and tears that remind us we are never alone and never unloved.
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