Seven Quotes from "The Hardest Peace"

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Today's prompt is book quotes, and I decided to bring you quotes from The Hardest Peace by Kara Tippetts. Kara was a pastor's wife and mom of four young children. She wrote this book about her journey through metastatic breast cancer, and it's a wonderful testimony of God's faithfulness in life's hard moments. I don't know about you, but it seems we've all had our share of hard moments here in 2020. If you're in need of a reminder that God's got you, that He's never once lost you in the madness of these circumstances, please check out The Hardest Peace.

"Tomorrow we get to wake up and be faithful.
Whatever each step brings, and whatever hard comes, people will always disappoint us.
But tomorrow, tomorrow we get to be faithful in that moment."

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"Your story is a good story.
In the grief, pain, and hard, the Author has a plan.
It may feel like a desperate breaking of your very heart,
but suffering is not the absence of God or good."

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"Suffering is the gift you never wanted,
the gift wrapped in confusion and heartbreak and brokenness."

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"...Maybe, just maybe, brokenness is not to be feared but humbly received."

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"...If God has called me to this hard story, His promise is one of sufficient grace."

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"If I really sit and listen to God, He will lift the dread.
The dread and fear are what so often steal our peace and leave us on the edges of our moments exhausted.
We meet the scary of life and forget to turn to God and listen and know His peace.
We scramble to control, fix, and protect from hard.
The imagined fears and worries often break us more than reality."

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"Grace is the sweet moment you never expect
but turns up to get you through a day, an appointment, a reality you never, ever dreamed for yourself."

Click here to read my original review of The Hardest Peace, or here to purchase a copy for yourself.


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"A Portrait of Loyalty" by Roseanna M. White

The Codebreakers series wraps up here, after following Margot the math whiz in The Number of Love and Philip the disgraced pilot in On Wings of Devotion. Now our heroine is Lily, a young photography expert helping alter shots to leak to the enemy. Her father also works at the Old Admiralty Building, but Lily's mother has strict views against propaganda, so Lily has kept her official work a secret, covered up by her volunteer nursing shifts at Charing Cross Hospital.

Zivon Marin escaped war-torn Russia after losing his family and fiancee. A train wreck has separated him from his brother, his last living relative, and he wonders if he'll ever see Evgeni alive again. Despite their differing political beliefs, he longs for the love and connection they'd always shared. He has no regrets defecting to help the British, not after everything the Bolsheviks have taken from him.

Lily likes the new man around the office, but she sees the pain and scars he keeps buried deep inside. Can she help him see the beauty in life once more?

The final days of WWI play out across the pages, including the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. I hadn't expected that to be part of the story, so it was quite a surprise, especially given all that has happened in our world here in 2020. We all understand about that a little more now than we would have if this book had released last year.

Overall, another fantastic novel from Roseanna M. White! I would recommend this for all fans of historical fiction.

I received my copy of the book from the publisher. All thoughts in this review are my own.