A review by jillmccracken
Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful by Katie Davis Majors

3.0

I’ve had Daring to Hope by Katie Davis Majors on. Y TBR list since before I went to Africa last November. We visited her school (Amazima) in Uganda. Our newly formed nonprofit (cabbageandcrayons.org) hopes to one day build a similar school in Nakuru, Kenya. This book was a collection of stories from her ministries in Jinja, Uganda. I truly enjoyed reading about places I have been, and people I may have met. Mrs. Davis Majors shared stories that broke her heart and sent her to her knees. True stories of loss, sorrow, and exhaustion. Stories that made her cry, shake her head, and almost retreat. Almost, because God wouldn’t let her go. And she dared hope. Through the stories she shared in her book, Mrs. David Majors taught me that hope takes guts. Hope is a risk. Hope is hard, daring, and dangerous. But hope is worth everything it will cost us. Her life is vastly different from mine, but the stories and lessons she shared in her book spoke into my life, inspired me, challenged me, encouraged me, and dared me to look at my own circumstances and still dare to hope in the God of all hope, who is Hope. It was a little too scripture-heavy, which I feel distracted some from her message, and made it less accessible to readers unfamiliar or less versed in scripture.