This Beautiful Truth, Sarah Clarkson
This Beautiful Truth, Sarah Clarkson
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This Beautiful Truth
How God's Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness

Author: Sarah Clarkson

Narrator: Carla Mercer-Meyer

Unabridged: 6 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/15/2021

Synopsis

We live in a broken world. Amid the daily realities of sickness and isolation, disappointment and pain, it can be profoundly difficult to grasp the real goodness of God. But this is where God breaks into our darkness with beauty. In the wonder of creation, in art or film, story or song, in the kindness of his people and the good they create, God breaks into our pain in a tangible way, teaching us to trust his kindness and hope for his healing. Beauty is a voice singing into our suffering, beckoning us toward restoration.

In This Beautiful Truth, Sarah Clarkson shares her own encounters with beauty in the midst of her decade-long struggle with mental illness, depression, and doubt. In a voice both vulnerable and reflective, she paints a compelling picture of the God who reaches out to us in a real and powerful way through the "taste and see" goodness of what he has made and what he continues to create amid our darkness. "To recognize and trust God's gift in pain," she writes, "empowers us to create and love as powerful witnesses to God's healing love in a hopeless world."

If you want to renew your capacity to recognize and encounter God's beauty in your life, this hope-filled book will show you the way.

About Sarah Clarkson

Sarah Clarkson grew up in a family committed to discipleship and personal ministry and began a personal walk with God at the age of sixteen. She is passionate about passing on the great ideas of literature and Scripture through writing and discipleship. Currently a freelance writer and editor, Sarah has spent the last few years working with Whole Heart Ministries at their conferences, speaking in the United States and overseas on such topics as beauty, literature, and loneliness. She has also served as a writer and editor for Whole Heart Press publishing projects and Whole Heart blogs.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Candice on June 04, 2021

I once heard the podcaster Anne Bogel say that a memoir written just because something interesting happened to a person isn't enough for her. Authors compose the best memoirs after they have had time to ruminate on their lives and extract meaning from them. As Kierkegaard said, "Life can only be und......more

Goodreads review by Jenna on May 04, 2021

Five things about This Beautiful Truth by Sarah Clarkson. 5/5 ⭐️s This book will be released June 8th. 1. The first word that came to mind while reading this book was vulnerability. Wow! Sarah is so vulnerable in this memoir of her life with a rare form of OCD ( she writes: “mental illness” is such......more

Goodreads review by Anna on June 13, 2021

Beautiful book. Luxurious writing. Language poetic and a delight to read. A life-changing memoir full of personal and beloved author vignettes.......more

Goodreads review by Jordan on June 27, 2021

3.5-4 stars. I wanted to entirely love this book, and mostly, I did. I loved the cover, and much of her previous writing, and the title of this book seemed like everything I needed it to be... And then, I hit a few roadblocks. I knew that we came from different places theologically, but it began to be......more

Goodreads review by Savannah on June 04, 2024

Truly beautiful. I tried listening to the audiobook several years ago and I just couldn't with the narrator. I still struggled with the narrator, but I made it the whole way through this time and ended up ordering a hard copy because I loved the book so much.......more

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