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The Most Beautiful Thing Ive Seen
The Most Beautiful Thing Ive Seen: Opening Your Eyes to Wonder | Lisa Gungor
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Lisa Gungor thought she knew her own story: small-town girl meets boy in college and they blissfully walk down the aisle into happily ever after. Their Christian faith was their lens and foundation for everythingtheir marriage, their music, their dreams for the future. But as their dreams began to come true, she began to wonder if her religion was really representative of the good news she had been taught. She never expected the questions to lead as far as they did when her husband told her he no longer believed in God. The death of a friend, the unraveling of relationships and career, the loss of a worldview, and the birth of a baby girl with two heart defects all led Lisa to a tumultuous place; one of depression and despair. And it was there that her perspective on everything changed. The Most Beautiful Thing Ive Seen tells the story of what can happen when you dare to let go of what you think to be true; to shift the kaleidoscope and see new colors and dimension by way of broken pieces. Lisas eloquent, soul-stirring memoir brings you to a music stage before thousands of fans and a front porch where two people whisper words that scare them to the core. It is the story of how doubt can spark the beginning of deeper faith; how a baby born with a broken heart can bring love and healing to the hearts of many, and ultimately, how the hardest experience in life often ends up saving us.
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So many of Lisa Gungor‘s experiences-with church, sorting through messy doubts about her faith, her worries and fears about parenting, facing her own ugly personal failings-resonated with my own spiritual upheaval of recent years. And while this book recounts a lot of struggle, there is so much beauty to be found in the midst of it, which in the end, is the whole point. The prose is just stunningly beautiful. I gulped this book down in two days.

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HeatherBookNerd
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For all my fellow deconstructing ex-evangelicals out there, this book is for you. It is really something.

Sos Loved this book so much ♥️ An honest and painful journey out of extremism. 6y
HeatherBookNerd @Sapphira I loved it too 6y
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This memoir is really getting to me. The writing is just incredible.