Holding onto Hope!

The current book I am reading is one I will from here on out highly recommend to anyone I come across who has sadly lost a child. It's actually wonderful for anyone who has lost anyone they love. The lady who wrote it, Nancy Guthrie, had already lost a baby at around 6-7 months due to a syndrome that was not curable and during the writing of this book found out they were pregnant again and that baby too had the same syndrome and would not live long after birth. She writes the book along with the telling of Job and has many comparisons. I am not finished yet but so far, this book has hit home with me and helped me in many ways. I feel like she really gets what I'm feeling and going through. Here are some of the quotes already that have really stuck out to me that I would love to share with you all...



"I think we expected our faith to make this hurt less, but it doesn't. Our faith gave us an incredible amount of strength and encouragement while we had (Annabelle), and we are comforted by the knowledge that she is in heaven. Our faith keeps us from being swallowed by despair. But I don't think it makes our loss hurt any less." ~Holding onto hope by nancy guthrie

"Our culture wants to put the band-aid of heaven on the hurt of losing someone we love. Sometimes it seems like the people around us think that because we know the one we love is in heaven, we shouldn't be sad. But they don't understand how far away heaven feels, and how long the future seems as we see before us the years we have to spend on this earth before we see the one we love again." ~ Holding onto hope by Nancy Guthrie

"You see, we worship because God is worthy, not necessarily because we "feel" like it. In the midst of a crisis, if we only do what we feel like doing, we could remain stuck in a cycle of self-pity. But when we worship, we get our eyes off of ourselves and our sorrow or problems. We focus them on God, and this puts our difficulties into proper perspective." ~Holding onto hope by Nancy Guthrie

"The truth is, worship during these times can be some of the most meaningful worship we ever experience. Perhaps we are more fully equipped to worship than ever before because we are acutely aware of our desparate need for God and our own incapacitating weakness. We have our helplessness and inadequacy in proper perspective to God's power and sufficiency." ~ Holding onto hope by Nancy Guthrie

"I have come to the place where I believe a yearning for heaven is one of the purposes and one of the privileges of suffering and of losing someone you love." ~ Nancy Guthrie in Holding onto hope.