What is the Hardest Place of Your Story?
What would you identify as the hardest place of your story?
I know you have one.
A place of more questions than answers.
An overwhelming reality filled with fear and doubts.
Maybe even hopelessness.
In my own hard place of cancer, I sojourned an uncharted wilderness of so many questions.
What? How? When?
Why? Why? Why?
Why was the loudest question, met with an even louder silence.
In this unanswerableness, I want to tell you what I discovered to be true.
I want to shout it. I want to whisper it into the inner places of your most secret heart.
The message is this:
You are not alone in your fear.
You are not foolish to hope.
And you are never forgotten by a loving, pursuing God. Never.
NEVER.
At times I found the why-answers unknowable. But the who of God? He was not silent. I found Him on a purple hillside, while riding in a white convertible, from a gift of six quarters, and in the star words whispered on a dark night.
He grasped my hand in the most difficult beauty of my story and He. Did. Not. Let. Go.
Do those truth-words resonate in a deep place?
That is the message of Under a Desert Sky: Redefining Hope, Beauty, and Faith in the Hardest Places, a book that is releasing IN ONE WEEK with Revell/Baker Publishing.
What others are saying about Under a Desert Sky:
“Lynne Hartke points the way for us across life’s unmapped deserts, plunging down a trail of difficult questions where Jesus is the answer and eternity the final destination. She proves we can unearth God’s beauty in the dust of our most intensely painful stories.” —Kevin Johnson, bestselling author and executive coach
Under A Desert Sky is a powerful and candid journey through cancer. Lynne doesn't sugar-coat her writing through loss, pain, vulnerability and life. Nor does she fill this journey with religious platitudes or dismissive clichés. She's invites each reader to experience safe vulnerability & camaraderie with their various struggles. This book will deepen each reader's faith with robust candor and continual return to the steadfast character of a loving God. --Sarah Bowling,Founder of Saving Moses & TV host for Today with Marilyn & Sarah