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    Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet: Tasting the Goodness of God in All Things
    Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet: Tasting the Goodness of God in All Things
    Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet: Tasting the Goodness of God in All Things
    Audiobook5 hours

    Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet: Tasting the Goodness of God in All Things

    Written by Sara Hagerty and Katie Davis

    Narrated by Jennifer Richmond

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    Sara Hagerty masterfully draws from her own story of spiritual and physical barrenness to birth in listeners a new longing for God. With exquisite storytelling and reflection, Hagerty guides listeners to a tender place that God is holding just for them—a place where he shapes the bitterness of lost expectations into deep, new places of knowing Him.

    In the age of fingertip access to answers and a limitless supply of ambitions, where do we find the God who was birthed in dirt and straw? Sara Hagerty found him when life stopped working for her. She found him when she was a young adult mired in spiritual busyness and when she was a new bride with doubts about whether her fledgling marriage would survive. She found him alone in the night as she cradled her longing for babies who did not come. She found him as she kissed the faces of children on another continent who had lived years without a mommy’s touch.

    In Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet, Hagerty masterfully draws from the narrative of her life to craft a mosaic of a God who leans into broken stories. Here readers see a God who is present in every changing circumstance. Most significantly, they see a God who is present in every unchanging circumstance as well

    Whatever lost expectations listeners are facing—in family, career, singleness, or marriage—Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet will bring them closer to a God who longs for them to know him more. What does it look like to know God’s nearness when life breaks? What does it mean to receive his life when earthly life remains barren? How can God turn the bitterness of unmet desire into new flavors of joy?

    With exquisite storytelling and reflection, Hagerty brings listeners back to hope, back to healing, back to a place that God is holding for them alone—a place where the unseen is more real than what the eye can perceive. A place where every bitter thing is sweet.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateNov 4, 2014
    ISBN9780310342441
    Author

    Sara Hagerty

    Sara Hagerty is a lifelong admirer of words. She's experienced their power to revive. The way she sees and crafts words comes from her love for God and his Word. Sara is married to her favorite person, Nate, and she's a mother of seven--four adopted from Africa and three through surprise miracle pregnancies. She's also a bestselling author and speaker who has found the significance of words whispered in hidden places as conversation with and worship to God as well as written in tearful honesty and shared with her readers. Today Sara's words offer God's hope to readers facing unexpected life circumstances. You can follow her on Instagram at @sarahagertywrites and on Substack at sarahagerty.substack.com.

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    • 5/5
      This audiobook spoke to me in varioud levels, it really broadened my perspective on seeing my circumstances in a new light! simply beautiful
    • 2/5
      Narration and production of audiobook had problems. There were multiple times that phrases were repeated. I also found it hard to keep the adopted children straight.