Together we can encounter the grace that enters the middle of our stories, where living with suffering that lingers means receiving God's presence that lasts. We don't need to make suffering a before-and-after story. Ramsey Rich Villodas Listening to God Through Paying Attention to Our Bodies All Episodes Rich Villodas Listening to God Through Paying Attention to Our Bodies Rich Villodas Listening to God Through Paying Attention to Our Bodies This Too Shall Last with K.J. We are all mid-story in circumstances we did not choose, wondering when our hard things will end and where grace will come if they don’t.

Through personal story and insights from neuroscience and theology, Ramsey invites us to let our tears become lenses of the wonder that before God ever rescues us, he stands in solidarity with us. This Too Shall Last offers an antidote to our cultural idolatry of effort and ease. Instead, God invited her into a bigger story. Instead, she encountered the God who chose it. had to find a way across the widening canyon that seemed to separate God's goodness from her excruciating circumstances. Over a decade ago chronic illness plunged therapist and writer K.J. If God loves us, why does he allow us to hurt? When your prayers for healing haven't been answered, the fog of depression isn't lifting, your marriage is ending in divorce, or grief won't go away, it's easy to feel you've failed God and, worse, he's failed you. Our culture treats suffering like a problem to fix, a blight to hide. We silently, secretly wither under the pressure of living as though suffering is a predicament we can avoid or annihilate by working hard enough or having enough faith. This book is not a before-and-after story. The Lord is My Courage is for the deconstructing and the dreamers, the afraid and the amazed, for those whose fear has not been fully shepherded but who can't seem to stop listening for their Good Shepherd's Voice.Our culture treats suffering like a problem to fix, a blight to hide, or the sad start of a transformation story. Braiding contemplative storytelling, theological reflection, and practical neuroscience, Ramsey reveals a route into connection and joy that begins right where you are. How can we cultivate courage when fear overshadows our lives? How do we hear the Voice of Love when hate and harm shout loud? This book offers an honest path to finding that there is still a Good Shepherd who is always following you. discovered that courage is not the absence of anxiety but the practice of trusting we will be held and loved no matter what. When she stepped through her own wilderness of spiritual abuse and religious trauma, K.J. Ramsey explores the landscape of our fear, trauma, and faith. Walking through Psalm 23 phrase by phrase, therapist and author K.J.

This Too Shall Last by K.J. Ramsey