30 Days Of Hope For Hurting Marriages

30 Days of Hope for Hurting Marriages offers married couples validation for the struggles they face. Filled with honest reflections from their own marriage and near divorce, each devotion contains Scripture, questions to consider and discuss, and a glimpse into emotions couples experience—anger, confusion, sadness, hopelessness—when their relationship is strained. There is hope for your marriage. You can persevere through this season of despair and come out on the other side with hope and, by God’s grace, a stronger marriage!

In 30 Days of Hope When Caring for Aging Parents, author and fellow caregiver Kathy Howard offers the encouragement needed as you strive to care for your parents in a way that pleases God and shows them honor and respect while maintaining their dignity. Through Scripture passages, prayer prompts, and Kathy’s personal stories, be strengthened in the knowledge that the giver of all wisdom will empower you in the daily moments when you are caught between being your parents’ child and their caregiver.

In 30 Days of Hope for Dealing with Depression, author and fellow depression sufferer Brenda Poinsett offers a glimmer of hope. Her transparent and raw personal stories reveal that you are not alone in your struggle to deal with depression. God is holding out hope for you to grasp. Whether depression is a lifelong battle or a season of attack, this personal testimony filled with Scripture and biblical insight will have you relying on God—the one who can help you overcome.

30 Days of Hope for Comfort in Infertility offers comfort to anyone struggling to conceive. Through personal reflections and Scripture, this 30-day journey will begin to open your heart to the hope and healing available only through Christ. As author Elizabeth Evans shares her story, you’ll discover that your thoughts and emotions are normal and that you can find inner peace and contentment. She will share how she learned to see the bigger picture—God’s planning and timing is perfect.

You finally surrendered. You opened your heart when you said, “Yes, God, I’ll adopt.” But now, you’ve discovered that opening your heart to the idea of adoption is the easiest part of the journey. Now comes the reality of the emotional ups and downs that only another adoptive parent can understand. In 30 Days of Hope for Adoptive Parents, author Jennifer Phillips shares words of encouragement to help adoptive parents navigate the emotional waters of adoption. Regardless of where you are in the process—just beginning or now living with the teenagers you adopted as infants—there are struggles unique to adoptive parenting. Weaving elements of her own journey through adoption, you will find hope as you begin to see God’s adoptive heart toward you.

"This is the first book about marriage from a Christian perspective that doesn't gloss over the hard stuff." This book is for every wife, whether newlywed or married for fifty-plus years. Most women recognize that healthy marriage requires both commitment and hard work, but how can a wife continue to thrive when marriage goes awry? Hope for the Hurting Wife is a thirty-day devotional journey that meets hurting and heartbroken wives right in the midst of a difficult marriage and gently encourages them to find hope that truly lasts. Rebekah and Jen know many wives truly wish to avoid divorce, but the pain and suffering experienced when marriage doesn't go as planned is very real. Through personal stories of heartache and scriptural insight, they address topics such as: Moving forward after trauma Loving even when you feel unloved Protecting your heart Understanding the power of choice Trusting God while waiting for redemption Hope. Courage. Confidence. It's never too late to experience these realities, even in a troubled marriage!

Your heart grieves. The tears won’t stop. You sense bitterness and anger growing in you as you struggle between grief and trying to trust God through this part of your journey. No matter how hard you try, you can’t seem to find the delicate balance between your grief and faith in God for the future. It is difficult to understand God’s purpose in the death of a child. You doubt you will ever find peace, comfort, or understanding. Author Maegan Roper, who as walked this dark road, shares the light of hope she received from Christ as He restored her and brought her from grief to joy. Weaving portions of her own personal story with words of encouragement and Scripture, you’ll begin to feel restored as you experience the same peace and understanding she found on her journey from loss to hope

Sometimes life seems full of obstacles that can prevent us from experiencing peace in Christ. Even in the safest place life can offer, you can feel devoid of peace. No matter how hard you try, you can’t seem to find a peaceful balance of living between your worry over the present and fear of the future. 30 Days of Hope for Peaceful Living offers encouraging insight through examining what God’s Word has to say about peace. Author and pastor, Mark Bethea, shares personal reflections of God’s faithfulness through times of uncertainty and biblical understanding for how peaceful living can be accomplished, no matter what life throws at you.