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Miracles and Other Reasonable Things
Miracles and Other Reasonable Things: A Story of Unlearning and Relearning God | Sarah Bessey
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In her most personal book yet, popular speaker and bestselling author Sarah Bessey invites us into her longand sometimes miraculousroad to recovery after a terrible accident and shares how it changed everything she believed about God. Sarah Bessey was in her sweet spot: a popular author, sought-after speaker and preacher, and an active and engaged mother of four, married to the love of her life. Raised within the Word of Faith and prosperity movements, which declared that obedience to God led to untold blessings, her life seemed to prove the preachers of her childhood were right. Then she was in a car accident with life-shattering consequences, and everything she thought she knew about God and faith was upended. Weaving together theology and memoir in her trademark narrative style, Sarah tells us the whole story of the car accident that changed her body and ultimately changed her life. The road of healing leads to Rome where she met the Pope (its 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 unexpectedly 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, surprising holiness, 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 in our hands as we wrestle with God.
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behudd
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A lovely book that tells a story from Bessey‘s life and the changes she made, physically & spiritually, after that moment.
At times I struggled to keep an overarching idea in mind for the book, but the writing was beautiful & kept me fully engaged. A lot resonated, some didn‘t, and there were tears & laughter throughout.

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Tomigirl44
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I appreciate everything she‘s written.

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HeatherBookNerd
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Bessey writes beautifully about her wandering, ever-growing relationship with God, what it means to live in the tension between great faith and great doubt. She shares the story of how the emotional and physical hardship of the last few years has transformed her understanding of God, of suffering, and of finding peace in the midst of the unknown. Having had some similar struggles, I found this book especially comforting and helpful.

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Morning reading in the cool quiet. I bought this book and it arrived yesterday. I want to finish it all at once, and I also want it to last. Do you ever feel that way about a book?

Lesanne That‘s when I know it‘s going to be one of my favorites! 😊 5y
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