Miracles and other reasonable things : a story of unlearning and relearning God / by Sarah Bessey.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Howard Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2019Edition: First Howard Books/Atria Books hardcover editionDescription: xii, 222 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781501155468
- 1501155466
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A deeply moving and life-affirming account of wrestling with faith and God and finding miracles in the most unexpected places.
In the brief instant Sarah Bessey realized that her minivan was, inevitably, going to hit the car on the highway on the bright, clear day of the crash, she knew intuitively that it would have life-changing consequences. But as she navigated the winding path from her life before the accident--as a popular author, preacher, and loving wife and mother--to her new life after, inhabiting a body that no longer felt like her own, she found that the most unexpected result wasn't the way this shook her body, but how it shook her deeply rooted faith, upending everything she thought she knew and held so dearly.
Weaving together theology and memoir in her trademark narrative style, Sarah tells us the story of the moment that changed her body and how it ultimately changed her life. The road of healing leads to Rome where she met the Pope (it's complicated) and encountered the Holy Spirit in the last place she expected. She writes about her miraculous healing, learning to live with chronic pain, and the ways God makes us whole in the midst of suffering. She invites us to a path of knowing God that is filled with ordinary miracles, hope in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, and other completely reasonable things.
Insightful, profound, and unexpected, Miracles and Other Reasonable Things is a wild, spirit-filled story of what it means to live with both grief and faith, suffering and joy, as we wrestle with God.
"In her most personal book yet, popular speaker and bestselling author Sarah Bessey invites us into her long--and sometimes miraculous--road to recovery after a terrible accident and shares how it changed everything she believed about God"-- Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references.
Lucky -- Dangerous women -- The first miracle -- The blessing of rock bottom -- Walking in Rome -- The misfit of Rome -- The Pope and me -- Miracles in Rome -- Befores and afters -- Learning to pray -- Loving a broken miracle -- She has the whole world in her hands -- Broken flowers -- Shalom and sandstone -- Once and then -- Benediction.