Through any struggle you can stand firm! Believe ANYWAY is a colorful hands-on workbook that will empower you to remain steadfast through every difficult season. This inspiring six-week devotional will encourage you to dream again, to see people through the eyes of hope, and to choose faith in the midst of doubt. The fresh, creative activities in this one-of-a-kind devotional will equip you to plant unshakable roots in God's Word. The daily BELIEVE process will guide you as you dig deep into Scripture, and the many inspiring personal stories will ignite your heart with expectation. Before long, you will find yourself doubting less and trusting more, having a hopeful perspective rather than a defeated one. You will walk away with the ability to overcome worry, anxiety, and the pains of the past. The truths within these pages will revolutionize your life, if you let them. So grab a warm mug of coffee or tea, sit down with this book, and start believing!

Through any struggle you can stand firm. Believe ANYWAY is a colorful, hands-on workbook that will empower you to remain steadfast through every difficult season. This inspiring eight-week devotional will encourage you to dream again, to see people through the eyes of hope, and to choose faith in the midst of doubt. The fresh, creative activities in this one-of-a-kind devotional will equip you to plant unshakable roots in God's Word. The daily H.O.P.E. process will guide you as you dig deep into Scripture, and the many inspiring personal stories will ignite your heart with expectation. Before long, you will find yourself doubting less and trusting more, having a hopeful perspective rather than a defeated one. You will walk away with the ability to overcome worry, anxiety, and the pains of the past. The truths within these pages will revolutionize your life, if you let them. So grab a warm mug of coffee or tea, sit down with this book, and start believing ANYWAY!

“Anne Lamott is my Oprah.” —Chicago Tribune The New York Times bestseller from the author of Dusk, Night, Dawn, Almost Everything and Bird by Bird, a powerful exploration of mercy and how we can embrace it. "Mercy is radical kindness," Anne Lamott writes in her enthralling and heartening book, Hallelujah Anyway. It's the permission you give others—and yourself—to forgive a debt, to absolve the unabsolvable, to let go of the judgment and pain that make life so difficult. In Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy Lamott ventures to explore where to find meaning in life. We should begin, she suggests, by "facing a great big mess, especially the great big mess of ourselves." It's up to each of us to recognize the presence and importance of mercy everywhere—"within us and outside us, all around us"—and to use it to forge a deeper understanding of ourselves and more honest connections with each other. While that can be difficult to do, Lamott argues that it's crucial, as "kindness towards others, beginning with myself, buys us a shot at a warm and generous heart, the greatest prize of all." Full of Lamott’s trademark honesty, humor and forthrightness, Hallelujah Anyway is profound and caring, funny and wise—a hopeful book of hands-on spirituality.

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When we are in the darkness--whatever that is in our own particular story--the temptation is to believe that it's over, it's always going to feel this way, we will never be anywhere else or feel anything other than we do now. We fear the darkness, and for good reason. But it is in the darkness that new life begins. With an openhanded spirit and openhearted vulnerability, Leeana Tankersley reveals the darkest chapter of her own story, the thing she never thought would happen and could do nothing to prevent. Along the way she shares how waiting patiently in the darkness allowed something incredible to take root within her: a defiant and hard-won hope that is not dependent on happy endings. If you have lost your faith, your family, your health, your home, your security, your business, or your very self, Leeana wants you to know that you are not alone or forgotten. You are not doomed to stagnation or stasis. You are not worth less than you once were. Against every last odd, you can hope anyway.