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Join New York Times best-selling author Shauna Niequist as she invites you to experience the precious gifts and wisdom that only come the hard way - through change, loss, and transition. In this collection of poignant essays, Shauna reflects on her own journey of making peace with change, the nuanced mix of excitement and heartbreak that comes with it, and the practices that offer us strength and hope along the way. A tribute to life at the edges, Bittersweet is a love letter to the bittersweet and sacred work that change does in us all.

The Bitter & The Sweet Podcast is a show where we tell the truth about grief, joy, and the grace that covers it all. Join Host Kayla M. Cook every Tuesday for conversations about disappointment and dreams, grief and gratitude, the bitter and the sweet.

A year past the diagnosis of AML (Acute Myeloid Leukemia), Curt Ghormley has done it again. This time, his book is a set of weekly devotional meditations drawn from childhood, career, and family. Together, they form a richly entertaining tapestry of God’s faithfulness in the life of a cancer survivor. Unashamedly biblical, each brief story tells of a God who shows his faithfulness in the circumstances of everyday life. Some of the circumstances are poignant and heart-wrenching. Some are over-the-top comical. Some are wondrously death-defying.

Bitter and Sweet: A Family's Journey with Cancer is a true story that unfolded in the lives of Tim and Darcy. In their 40s Tim and Darcy lived a pretty typical American life: working, raising a family, tending to their home, having too much to do and not enough time to do it. Without warning Tim was suddenly diagnosed with stage IV gallbladder cancer. Bitter and Sweet is about the journey they chose to take, making their saga public.

Flourishing on the Edge of Faith is a passionate meditation on the profound significance of Jesus's prayer. With years of study, teaching, and peacemaking around the world, Dr. Andrew DeCort uncovers Jesus's radical vision for human flourishing in the face of suffering and violence. Wherever you are on the edge of faith, this book will meet your questions with honesty and hope.

A podcast about the mundane and the beautiful. An attempt to capture just a few of the ordinary, every day. A roadmap for meeting people right where they are, living stories that may never make headlines, but do make us feel deeper for and nearer to our neighbors. We believe the ordinary houses the extraordinary. Ordinary Story is brought to you BitterSweet and produced by Angela Wu, Carolina Soto, Obi Okolo, Robert Winship, and Kate Schmidgall. Sound design, mixing, and editing by Robert Winship. https://bittersweetmonthly.com/series/ordinary-story