What if you knew how to live unafraid and unoffended in the face of disappointment and loss? Discover a biblical framework for understanding life’s most challenging seasons and keys for living in hope in the middle of the valley of the shadow of death.
We all face seasons of disappointment and loss in life. At such time, we often wonder:
How do I find my way through?
Was this God’s will?
Why did this happen?
These experiences and the questions they raise can easily send us spiraling into despair and disillusionment—but they don’t have to. In The Way Back to Hope, Amy Calkins shares from her own journey of coming face-to-face with crippling disappointment and loss and how she found her way through. She does not offer good Christian answers or five-step solutions, but she does validate your pain, question some unhelpful (and unbiblical) theology, and point the way forward. The Way Back to Hope is an invitation to the journey from disappointment to fearless hope—a hope that stills the storm.
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Finding our way back to joy and hope is a lifelong learning process. We have all had our own “most trying season.” These seasons are often the greatest challenge we face. Amy Calkins has written a book from her own deep well of soul-searching, experience, and finding understanding. I appreciate what she has written in The Way Back to Hope. If you have found yourself living past your ability to see hope because the pain and chaos have taken over, please let me encourage you to allow someone who has been there to hand you a map in this journey. This book will help you find real, helpful goals and bypass the many lies that hinder and hurt us when we are weak and discouraged. I highly recommend The Way Back to Hope as a direction-finding tool in the journey of plowing through the fog of war and allowing God to set your feet on the rock of hope.
—Danny Silk, President of Life Academy; Bethel Church Senior Leadership Team; author of Keep Your Love On, Culture of Honor, Powerful and Free, and Loving Our Kids on Purpose
All of us deal with pain and disappointment in life, but many of us don’t know how to process it or how to turn our lives around when the seas get rough. Amy Calkins’ book, The Way Back to Hope, offers keys to breakthrough through biblically understanding the problem of pain, God’s will in the middle of the storm, and how to tackle the why questions that leave us paralyzed. I highly recommend this book as a resource for navigating painful issues in life and how we can all take courage to move forward into calmer waters of hope.
—Theresa Dedmon, Author of Created To Overcome and Born to Create; Pastor and Director of Create Academy
This book is really refreshing! Amy tackles the reality that the Church has talked a lot about victory without being honest about how desperately hard the Christian journey can be. She deals with real life struggles and the emotions that accompany them, as well as the story of how God healed her heart—“not by giving her answers, but by giving her hope.” She helps us understand how pain alerts us to the real problem—the wounds in our hearts that come from unresolved disappointment. Instead of telling people that their pain is a result of God’s will for their lives, she encourages us to tell them the truth: that God grieves with them. Amy candidly writes from her own experience to help us understand how we can live free of offense in the middle of the unknown. She encourages us to grieve and invite God into the journey with us. The truths found in this book will lead you into the kind of hope that will not only cause you to weather the storms, but also access heaven’s solutions for them. I highly recommend this book!
—Larry Kreider, Founder and International Director of DOVE International; author of more than forty books
