Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Award-winning blogger Sarah Bessey invites us to explore the everyday meaning of resurrection, how we can grapple with issues like identity, prayer, renewal, and death, and how we can lead a life of hope and joy. The resurrection of Jesus is the axis upon which the universe turns; it's our before and our after; it's our then and our now and our someday. And yet, we move through our lives as though we still live in the land of death, never fully taking our place in the world of resurrection.
Part theology, part memoir, Ordinary Miracles explores the everyday meaning of resurrection. With her trademark narrative style, Sarah Bessey shares what it means to practice resurrection in her own life. She explains why this incredible truth--how God brings life in the midst of death--matters as we live out our lives day to day. She writes about what it means to be on a first-name basis with resurrection and testifies to how Jesus brings us from death to life. She invites everyone into life in Christ and to follow in the ways of Jesus, even during the most ordinary and uncelebrated moments of our lives.
Bold, compelling, and honest, Ordinary Miracles is a spirit-filled testimony of what it means to live with grief and hope in both hands, and why the practice of resurrection matters in our daily lives.
Synopsis
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.