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What If This Is Not the End of Your Story?

You and I both know what it’s like when a story turns in ways we never would have chosen, when what we hoped would hold instead falls apart. Vaneetha Risner has lived with that tension. I remember having coffee with her at a writers’ conference the week her divorce was final, hearing pieces of her story for the first time, and noticing how she kept holding onto Jesus in the middle of it. I couldn’t love or esteem this woman more — Vaneetha writes with an honesty that doesn’t rush pas