Broken For Good: How Grief Awoke My Greatest Hopes

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Rebecca's father dies three days into her freshman year of college. At the young age of eighteen, she found herself plunged into a loss that challenged the hope she had always carried in her Christian faith. Like so many women, Rebecca, her mother, and her two sisters had fiercely loved this man who for so long did not walk beside them in faith, who finally reached out to God in his last days. Penned more than a decade after her father's death, BROKEN FOR GOOD is a daughter's beautifully written narrative about life with and without her father, and her journey through deep grief into the beginnings of hope. In these pages, she tells her uplifting story of waking up to the world, to new hungers, and to a far braver faith.

REBECCA RENE JONES believes in the biggest God, the blackest coffee, and that earth is just an opening act. A 2005 graduate of Grove City College, Pa., she spent nearly a decade as a health care publicist, writer, and editor before shifting gears to freelance from home. She lives in Rochester, New York, with her husband and son. You can visit her at www.rebeccarenejones.com.

"Jones is a sparkling new voice a la Anne Lamott with that rare ability to speak beauty in the midst of life's dark moments."--Publishers Weekly