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Hope Heals: A True Story of Overwhelming Loss and an Overcoming Love
by Jay Wolf, Katherine Wolf, Joni Eareckson Tada
As a 2 time stage 3 cancer survivor before I hit 40, there was so much that resonated with me on this. So much I understood how they felt in some moments on an emotional level, feeling their pain and disappointment with them at the losses and the joy and contentment as they gained hope and gave hope.
The Wolfs do such an amazing job explaining that hard-won hope and joy they found in their trial while also being real and honest. I think a lot of Christians have this insecurity about their vulnerability, feeling like they can’t tell the truths about their grief, fear, anger, and disappointment or it somehow reflects poorly on either their walk with God, or God himself. On the contrary, acknowledging their points of grief and despair gives other people the opportunity to see God in their situation and feel like they have a place in their own suffering to also find hope. Like they said, you just don’t hang out in that place, that’s the big difference. It exists, you absolutely acknowledge it and feel it, but you choose whether you live there.
Jay and Katherine did this beautifully and I have so much respect and appreciation for their story and for what God has done thru them and their losses.
The Wolfs do such an amazing job explaining that hard-won hope and joy they found in their trial while also being real and honest. I think a lot of Christians have this insecurity about their vulnerability, feeling like they can’t tell the truths about their grief, fear, anger, and disappointment or it somehow reflects poorly on either their walk with God, or God himself. On the contrary, acknowledging their points of grief and despair gives other people the opportunity to see God in their situation and feel like they have a place in their own suffering to also find hope. Like they said, you just don’t hang out in that place, that’s the big difference. It exists, you absolutely acknowledge it and feel it, but you choose whether you live there.
Jay and Katherine did this beautifully and I have so much respect and appreciation for their story and for what God has done thru them and their losses.