Desperate Hope - Softcover

Rose Pauly

3.86

14 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0989699005 ISBN 13: 9780989699006

Publisher: Ethan Henry Publishing, 2013

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One beautiful fall day, two lives collide. One busy balancing family, work, and school. The other on a trajectory of desperation, destruction, and evil. They will never be the same again. Beginning with an assault at knifepoint and a surprising response from the victim, this story unfolds a future neither could have anticipated. Sixteen years later, they have come together to tell their stories. His of addictions, arrests, and prisons, followed by redemption, recovery, and reconciliation. Hers is the story of overcoming fear, embracing forgiveness, and forsaking victimhood and shame to experience God s overwhelming love. This book does more than tell a story. It brings hope to anyone in the grip of addiction, pornography, or despair, and help for victims, the fearful, and the traumatized anyone desperate for hope. Two lives brought together first in violence and then in forgiveness tell this unusual yet true story of God s love and his overarching hand working in dramatic ways.

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About the Author:

Rose Pauly is a speaker and author residing in Fort Collins, Colorado. She is wife to Steve and mother to three sons and a daughter-in-law. Rose s past experience includes pastoral counseling and mentoring in the areas of abuse, trauma and addiction. She is a frequent speaker in churches and women s events.

Review:

Mingling raw honesty with authentic hope, Rose Pauly shares an accessible story that is not only a page turner, but demonstrates God's epic ability to bring beauty out of the darkest, most fearful situations. Beautifully crafted, this book will provoke life change, worship and wonder, and remind us all again that grace really is amazing. Highly recommended. --Jeff Lucas, author, speaker, broadcaster

Desperate Hope is a profound story of the power of God's providential and redemptive grace to transform a potentially hideous and ruinous tragedy into a beautiful story of healing and love. --Dr. Quinn Fox, Associate Pastor for Discipleship and Christian Formation, The National Presbyterian Church, Washington DC

It is a rare gift that can combine vulnerability, pain, and strength into a story that captures the essence of grace, but Rose does so with ease. She has crafted a mesmerizing book, exposing the hearts of two different people and weaving a compelling story of hope. This book encompasses you with warmth and a tender heart, and dares you to live life with abundant joy. --Rebekah Thrasher, Colorado State University Design Student, School of Visual Arts

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