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Any Day A Beautiful Change: A Story Of Faith And Family (2012)

by Katherine Willis Pershey(Favorite Author)

4.4 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0827200293 (ISBN13: 9780827200296)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Chalice Press

review 1: Katherine and I have been online friends for many years, so I was of course excited to read her book. It is personal, poetic, and vulnerable. It's also slim and readable, I finished it in one lazy Sunday.My favorite chapter compared pregnancy and knowing God in a way I found profound and illuminating, despite never having experienced pregnancy. I also loved a narrative about serving communion and feeling unqualified.My mother liked this book a lot too.
review 2: I read this book very nearly in one sitting, because putting it down was too much to contemplate. The prose is beautiful and perfect, the story simultaneously heart-filling and heart-wrenching. The life-snapshots offer a glimpse of grace in real life, of the reality of God's presence even in dark moment... mores, and the gorgeous hope that practicing resurrection can bring to an individual, a family, and a community. In the telling of their family story, Katherine offers us all a peek at what a life of authentic discipleship looks like. The way scripture weaves in and out of the narrative, the images so beautifully offered, and the perfection in capturing emotion make this a book I will recommend repeatedly--as I was reading, I was already making a mental list of people who need to read it!I admit that in the chapter on realizing what sobriety is and is not, and working toward true sobriety rather than codependent enmeshment, I wished for more--the transition from realizing there was a problem to living a solution surprised me with its quickness, for I know that it can't have been as easy as it sounds.Overall, this is an incredible book written by an incredible person and pastor. Thank you, Katherine and Ben, for sharing your story with us, even if it did make this single girl wish for a partner and family more than ever. :-P less

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