Under a desert sky : redefining hope, beauty, and faith in the hardest places by Hartke, Lynne, author instant download

Under a desert sky : redefining hope, beauty, and faith in the hardest places by Hartke, Lynne, author instant download

1 online resource, There comes a time in life when we find ourselves in the desert place of burning questions. Why' Why me' But even as we shake our fist heavenward, the heart whispers another question. Who' Who are you, God' It is a question of relationship, a question we all murmur in the hardest places. Against the backdrop of the Sonoran Desert, Lynne Hartke asks her own hard questions as cancer arrives like a thief with one goal: to take it all. Hair. The contents of a stomach. A marriage. A life. As her days become a blur of doctors' appointments, treatments, and surgeries, she wrestles with a tumble of tangled emotions, a shaken faith, and self-doubt. Cancer is now not only threatening her own life, but, in a surprising twist, the lives of both her parents as well. Through her raw, lyrical words, Hartke invites fellow sojourners to discover that in life's hardest places, they are not alone in their fear, they are not foolish to hope, and they are never forgotten by a loving, pursuing God. Never, Includes bibliographical references, Print version record, Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Endorsements; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Cancer Makes a House Call; 2. Stupid Strong; 3. When Theology Has No Handhold; 4. I Will Live until I Die; 5. Allee, Allee, All Come Free; 6. Love in the Bending Low; 7. A Hard, Forgetting Place; 8. Difficult Beauty; 9. A Stack of Gratitude Stones; 10. Laughter and Faith Hold Hands; 11. Remember the Sound of Rain; 12. The Narrow Place; 13. The Final Solo; 14. Sunrise, Sunset; 15. The Bigger Shadow; 16. Not Half of Two; 17. When Anxious Thoughts Multiply; 18. The Dance of Surrender, 19. A Mystery Bigger than the Unanswerable20. The Most Brave; 21. Finding God in Community; 22. The Bully in the Mirror; 23. When Foundations Shake; 24. The Gethsemane Hour; 25. An Ordinary Life; 26 Chocolate Rain; 27. The Better Offer; 28. No More Good-Byes; Note to the Reader; Questions for Reflection; Scriptures for Desert…