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Book

The gift of limitations : finding beauty in your boundaries

Call Number

  • 248.4 H144 (OSH)

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Publication Information

Grand Rapids, Michigan : Zondervan Books, [2024]

Physical Description

200 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

"Are you feeling stretched to your limits and wish those limits weren't there at all? Bestselling author Sara Hagerty asks: "What if your greatest weaknesses--the areas of your life you resent the most, the places where you feel the most overextended and unfulfilled--are your doorway to rich intimacy with God? What if your limitations were, in fact, your greatest gift?"It's all too much. Too much laundry and too many bills. Too many appointments, meetings, and open tabs on our browser. Yet in the midst of so much, we feel deprived. Limited. We make another family dinner while shelving our passion for art. We tend our tiny patch of grass while envying the time our neighbor has to garden. We go to bed exhausted, too tired to enjoy a few minutes with our own thoughts.As a writer, speaker, and mother of seven, Sara Hagerty knows what limitations feel like. Yet she has also seen how the boundaries of our life circumstances can bring about growth and satisfaction we'd never experience otherwise. With the poetic voice, gentle validation, and deep spiritual insights that have made Sara's books so popular, The Gift of Limitations explores how to:Name the limitations that haunt us and how we have unknowingly given them powerOpen our eyes to what God can do with the weaknesses we resentDiscover what God's Word says about living within our limitationsUnderstand what embracing our limits looks like in everyday lifeRecognize when we are pushing ourselves too farUnderstand how God sees weakness and how He has used it in the lives of great believersDream again while remaining tethered to God's best story for usRelease the shame and frustration of our weaknesses In The Gift of Limitations, you will learn to see the beauty and peace God provides in the midst of our life circumstances--and the deep spiritual growth we can experience through the limitations that we once thought held us back"--

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