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

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Finding grace in the everyday…

Kara Tippetts knows the ordinary days of mothering four kids, the joy of watching her children grow . . . and the devastating reality of stage IV cancer.

In The Hardest Peace, Kara doesn’t offer answers for when living is hard, but rather she asks us to join her in moving away from fear and control and toward peace and grace. Most of all, she draws us back to the God who is with ...

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Finding grace in the everyday…

Kara Tippetts knows the ordinary days of mothering four kids, the joy of watching her children grow . . . and the devastating reality of stage IV cancer.

In The Hardest Peace, Kara doesn’t offer answers for when living is hard, but rather she asks us to join her in moving away from fear and control and toward peace and grace. Most of all, she draws us back to the God who is with us in the mundane and the suffering, and who shapes even our unmet expectations and pain into beauty.

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“Losing myself in the startling light of Kara’s story, I have found who I am, who He is, and more of the meaning of every breath.”
— Ann Voskamp, New York Times best-selling author of One Thousand Gifts
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  • ISBN-13: 9780781412155
  • Publisher: Cook, David C
  • Publication date: 10/1/2014
  • Pages: 192
  • Sales rank: 17147
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Meet the Author

Kara Tippetts and her husband, Jason, have four children and lead a church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Cancer is only part of Kara’s story. Her real fight is to truly live while facing a crushing reality. She blogs faithfully at mundanefaithfulness.com.

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  • Posted Mon Sep 29 00:00:00 EDT 2014

    An extraordinary book of hope! How do we live, really live when

    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.... while leaning hard into Jesus, the one who's strength is made perfect when we are weak. She knows weak and hard, and sick and tired, and Jesus showing up in strength and grace. She shares what it means to struggle, to relinquish the way we 'thought' it would be, and to savor the sweet and precious moments with our loves, to lean into the hard that life brings, to love BIG, to parent with kindness, to runaway with our loves, to giggle and laugh, to treasure the warm snuggle, to SEE and pay attention to the one(s) who join us in our journey.

    The Hardest Peace is a well written, warm and honest reflection of the reality of living with stage IV cancer, AND the reality of peace and hope and this one simple word, STILL. Kara calls it the "five letter fist of hope"...STILL there is laughter and joy and celebrations and warm snuggles and hot coffee and beautiful sunsets. Kara Tippetts kindly and convincingly brings us face to face with the reality of hard stories...but she does not leave us there in despair. The Hardest Peace is filled with the STILL and Kara's words are drenched in hope and goodness and the knowledge that we are loved beyond measure by the God of hope, in whose presence we find peace and life everlasting. Her hard story is hard, yet her words and heart and example in the midst of hard are LIFE GIVING! Beautiful, lovely, gracious, full of encouragement and hope!

    One word to the wise...set aside a chunk of time when you decide to open that first page and begin to read....it is hard to put down.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Thu Oct 02 00:00:00 EDT 2014

    The Hardest Peace is Kara's story from start to present.  She gi

    The Hardest Peace is Kara's story from start to present.  She gives us a snapshot of the messy of her life prior to faith.  She introduces us to her husband and their story.  She lets us peek in on her four children and the wonder of them in her life.  She brings us to Colorado Springs from North Carolina and we hear of how tough moving to Colorado was from day one. She talks about the life she and Jason thought they were going to live and the life they have had to accept.  She is candid about the life her family will live without her and how she is trying to prepare all of them for that day and time. Kara is dying.  The cancer is not going to turn back and retreat at this point.  All treatments are to buy as much time as possible.  Just a few weeks ago she shaved her head for the second and last time. Kara knows she will die bald.  The treatments ensure that. 
    Kara shares from a place of deep peace and grace.  She can do so because of the big love she has experienced in Christ.  She is thoughtful in her story and she invites the reader in with some questions at the end of each chapter.  She doesn't want just people who have cancer, for example, to read this book.  She claims, and I agree, that this book is for anyone who has experienced, is experiencing, or will experience hard.  Well, that's everyone.  We cannot escape the hard of life, the sharp and rough edges of people and circumstances.  We cannot escape it but we can have peace, hard peace, in the midst of it.  Unless you have walked through hard with peace you can't speak with any authority on it. You have to experience it to share it honestly and without cliches.  Kara has the authority to show us and tell us that it is possible to have hard peace when life isn't so gentle.  She has been well equipped to speak on this topic.
    Kara's book, The Hardest Peace, is a gift for the reader.  The message Kara has lived to share is for anyone who has faced hard and that is each of us. 
    Pick up a copy for yourself and a friend today.  You will be challenged and comforted by Kara's story.

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  • Posted Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014

    As Kara Tippetts tells her story, I realize this is the story we

    As Kara Tippetts tells her story, I realize this is the story we all live as we live the hard parts of life and help others to do the same.  
    To realize that it is okay to not have it together all of the time is a relief.  I think  "The Hardest Peace-Expecting Peace in the Midst of Life's 
    Hard" gives us the scriptural support we need when living through an extended period of hard times.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014

    You will quickly read through the Hardest Peace as it¿s one of t

    You will quickly read through the Hardest Peace as it’s one of those books you carve out time to sit and finish, but as you process the words you will be drawn back to reread pages because you know you didn’t catch the depth in which they were written.  There are tears shed, many tears shed, but there is hope and that hope is in the one who will wipe away all our tears.   There is no formula, or fake promises, but a continual pointing to the one who is the perfect Author of each of our stories.  You will be blessed and even challenged by reading this book.  Kara is real, honest, and vulnerable, you cannot help but grow to love her, and now she has written us her story to be shared with anyone.  You will find yourself in real moments of life thinking back to her words written in the Hardest Peace and you will be challenged to face the moment with sacrificing love and kindness.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014

    Kara is a grace gift. Her heart has been spilled out across thes

    Kara is a grace gift. Her heart has been spilled out across these pages.  In "The Hardest Peace, " Kara speaks truth in tenderness and love.  She speaks to the child, the spouse, the mamma, the friend.  She pleads with her readers- her friends- to love BIG, not just in the important parts of life, but in all the little parts! God gave Kara an amazing gift to write honestly and fairly about her battle with cancer, but more importantly, about her battle to choose to seek out grace and love and to truly live in all the moments she has been given.  This is not just another book about cancer.  This is a book about life that is lived abundantly, a life that each reader can experience through the wonderful love of a Father who freely gives grace and peace to His children, in the beauty of the hard. Kara points her readers to the cross.  "Jesus didn’t have to extend His love... He didn't have to rewrite my story from one of beauty to one of brokenness and create a whole new brand of beauty...He overcame my fear of death in that unbelievable, beautiful moment, and the fruit of that death, that resurrection, and that stunning grace is peace.  It is the hardest peace, because it is brutal... but it is the greatest, greatest story that ever was. And it was, and it is."

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  • Posted Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014

    The Hardest Peace is a must read for everyone.  This is not anot

    The Hardest Peace is a must read for everyone.  This is not another ‘cancer’ story.  This is God’s story of grace and love written throughout the life of Kara Tippetts.  It is a story that will not only touch your heart, but cause you to begin to look at your own life’s story through the lens of God’s unfailing love.

    Through Kara’s beautiful telling of God’s faithfulness in the hard story for her life, she shows us the importance of embracing God’s calling in our life; letting go of the ‘idol’ image we have created of what our life should look like and trust Him.   

    She demonstrations the importance of showing BIG love in small, every day moments like folding laundry for her kids, snuggling tight to read a bedtime story or time spent across from her spouse with a good cup of coffee.  It all matters.  Every. Single. Moment.  

    Kara shares her hurts, fears and impossibly difficult moments with such love and grace that it moves us to begin to be honest about our own hard that we often want to keep hidden.  

    With encouragements like, “Hard is not the absence of God's goodness.” Kara helps us to know God’s goodness is near—even in hard places.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014

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

    The Hardest Peace: Expecting Grace in the Midst of Life's Hard
    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, women, parents, singles, teenagers, grandparents. Anyone struggling with their own hard in life will benefit from this book. And if you have a friend or family member fighting cancer, this is just the gift for them. It changes perspectives, and it applies to every walk of life. Grace pours from the pages... and the way she cries out in faith is just life changing. Wherever you are in your faith, this book will meet you there. Read it. Don't hesitate. Yes, you'll go through a box of tissues. Yes, you'll stop mid-book and go apologize to one of your children for losing your temper. (I did. True story.) But you'll also laugh. You'll start to look for the moments in life you've been missing. This book will change you. I am blessed to know this mama, and I received an advanced reader copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014

    This book, this amazing book, will change the way you face the h

    This book, this amazing book, will change the way you face the hard edges of life. No matter if it is the mundane edge of kids, work, spouses, and life....or the big hard of sickness, loss, and family struggles. Hard is hard, BUT "hard is not the absence of God's goodness". Grace will meet you as you read and learn how to seek and search for Grace to meet you at each turn. Read this. Share this book with those you love. It. Will. Change. You.

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  • Posted Tue Sep 30 00:00:00 EDT 2014

    Beautiful. Simply, beautiful. The Hardest Peace will grab you de

    Beautiful. Simply, beautiful. The Hardest Peace will grab you deep in your soul...Kara's story and infectious personality draw you in, but it is Jesus who keeps you. His love and grace are apparent in every moment of our lives, yet sometimes we have to look a bit to truly find them. Kara teaches us to look for grace, to savor each moment we have been given, to appreciate each detail in our daily lives, and mostly to LIVE, to truly and completely live in our moments. Even in the life altering, face-down-living season of cancer, Kara finds His grace in her daily battle. She extends herself beyond her limits to capture life with the ones she holds dearest to her heart. This book may have been borne from a cancer diagnosis, but it is certainly NOT a book about illness...Kara's story is about living and living big. Kara Tippett's journey will capture you and her beautifully written words will leave you wonderfully spent.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Sun Oct 05 00:00:00 EDT 2014

    Bought this book on the first day and could not put it down! It

    Bought this book on the first day and could not put it down! It's not a "cancer story" but a story about life. Living life. Living through (not around!) "the Hard" junky, dear God:are you kidding me-no one will believe this- kinda Stuff. It's a story that smacks you in the face to quit being so selfish. This book quickly draws you in and through Kara's beyond-belief transparency and honesty, and it demands self-reflection. Lots of it. Do yourself a huge favor: save yourself the extra trip and buy one than one copy at a time.

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    Posted Thu Oct 02 00:00:00 EDT 2014

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