Vaneetha Rendall Risner

Quite an interesting book describing the failures, hopes, and triumphs of her life.

Quite an interesting book describing the failures, hopes, and triumphs of her life.

(1) God's revealed glory [28]
(2) The power of lament found in the book of Ruth [33ff]
Quote (Vaneetha Risner): "I am not defined by what other people have said or done to me. I am defined by who I am in Christ." [8]
Quote (Vaneetha Risner): "I have learned that prayer changes my perspective on life." [21]
Quote (Vaneetha Risner): "A greater understanding of who God is, what God is like, what He does -- that was God's revealed glory, not a brilliant flash of light or some undefined ecstasy." show more [28]
Quote (Unknown(: "Be kind. For everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about." [64]
Quote (Paul Tripp): "Waiting is not just bout what I get at the end of the wait, but about who I become as I wait." [80]
Quote (Vaneetha Risner): "God...offered His presence when I wanted His presents." [83]
Quote (Vaneetha Risner): "God has a reason for all of our circumstances." ]87]
Quote (Charles Spurgeon): " I have learned to kiss the wave that throws me against the Rock of Ages." [94]
Quote (Joni Eareckson Tada): "God permits what He hates to achieve what He loves." [106]
Quote (Alexander Solzhenitsyn): "The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, not between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts." [111]
Quote (John Wyatt): "Suffering is not a question which demands an answer, it is not a problem which requires a solution, it is a mystery which demands a presence." [131]
Quote (Vaneetha Risner): "Viewing life through a lens of gratitude can change everything. ... How I view my own life is dependent on what I choose to focus on." [141]
Quote (Vaneetha Risner): "When we declare that God is more precious than our health, our happiness, even our very lives, we highlight His supreme worth to an immense, invisible audience." [144]
Quote (Vaneetha Risner): "Faith is much more about consistently walking with the Lord and trusting Him than it is about feeling His presence, or having spiritual 'experiences.'" [158]
Quote (Vaneetha Risner): "Were my prayers for deliverance answered with the gift of sustenance?" [161]
Quote (Vaneetha Risner): "Heaven will change everything." [166]
Quote (Vaneetha Risner): "Satan wants us to think that this life holds pleasures that we cannot experience in heaven." [168]
Quote (Vaneetha Risner): "Because of the gospel, God as all of eternity to lavish His love on us." [169] show less

21 cirurgias aos treze anos de idade. Vários anos no hospital. Bullying verbal e físico de colegas de escola. Múltiplas perdas de gravidez como jovem esposa. A morte de um filho. Uma doença progressiva debilitante. Dor excruciante. Abandono. Divórcio indesejado.

Vaneetha Rendall Risner implorou a Deus pela graça que a libertaria. Mas Deus ofereceu algo melhor: sua graça sustentadora.

No livro, Vaneetha faz mais do que compartilhar suas histórias de dor, ela convida outros sofredores a show more provarem juntos a bondade de um Deus soberano que nos carregará em nossos dias mais sombrios. show less