The Hardest Peace
Expecting Grace in the Midst of Life's Hard

I'm not sure I have the words to adequately describe the impact this book had on me. Kara Tippetts has a way with words, with life, with grace that is rare in our world. Though she's fighting stage four cancer, the book is far more about faith and life than it is cancer. I would recommend it to men,......more

Stark, real, vivid, painful and heart-breaking. Kara has a way of interweaving poetic lyricism with the harshest of pain and suffering. Never once depending on cliches or sugar-coating her experience, her words are a palette of infinite, wretched grace. This was a hard book to read: one that forces......more

It is through the unbearable pain of stage IV cancer that Kara learned the important lessons of life. God's grace always shows up. Love is kind. Community matters. The little moments should be embraced. This is not just a book for those scarred by the reality of cancer. No one escapes this life with......more

An extraordinary book of hope! How do we live, really live when the hard of life hits? How do we help our littles when the hard in life just simply doesn't make sense? Kara Tippetts graciously, beautifully, and lovingly beckons us, through her words and in sharing her life's journey, to LIVE.... whi......more

So this was a five-star read. Kara captured the paradox of life's ugly pain wrapped in the velvet of God's sweet grace. And she wrote in the down-to-earth kind of way we think. Kara endured what many also endure growing up - the anger of a dad and learning to just look good in public. As a teen, she......more