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When Catherine Marshall's husband, Peter, died unexpectedly, the sudden loss was overwhelming. Overnight, she became a single mother and young widow of a nationally beloved preacher. Catherine recalls how she clung tightly to a loving God while grappling with grief and loneliness. Thrust into an unfamiliar world of financial concerns, job hunting, and single parenting, she held fast to her tenacious faith. When she was asked to edit a small volume of her husband's sermons, a new chapter show more began. Catherine followed up by penning the powerful story of Peter's life, catapulting her into a writing career as a New York Times best-selling author. In this vulnerable account of the years after Peter's death, Catherine shares how she learned to trust in the goodness of God, who restored and redirected her life show less

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What to do when your personal world caves in. Here is the intimate story of how one woman, Catherine learned to live again after the untimely death of her husband. She did have faith in God and in His power to act in human lives today. Such amazing events followed her personal tragedy that she could explain hem only in terms of God's intervention. Convinced of God's watch-care, she learned how to step into the new life that awaited her..

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Catherine Marshall wrote more than twenty nonfiction books, including the best-selling A Man Called Peter and Beyond Our Selves. She is also the author of more than one hundred articles and two best-selling novels, Christy and Julie. Her love for God and love of writing were born at an early age and remained fervent until her death in 1983

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Catherine Marshall; Peter Marshall
First words
On the gray morning of January 25, 1949, my world caved in.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I drove steadily into the light.

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Genres
Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality
DDC/MDS
922.573History & geographyBiographies, Genealogy, HealdryReligious Leaders / PhilosophersPresbyterian and congregational
LCC
BX9225 .M3515 .A3Philosophy, Psychology and ReligionChristian DenominationsChristian DenominationsProtestantismOther Protestant denominationsPresbyterianism. Calvinistic Methodism
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Languages
Dutch, English
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Paper, Ebook
ISBNs
17
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ASINs
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