And It Was Beautiful: Celebrating Life in the Midst of the Long Good-Bye

by Kara Tippetts, Carla Mercer-Meyer (Narrated by)

Overview

“I was here. I saw beauty. I embraced it.”
—Kara TippettsHow do you live out extravagant love in the everyday moments? How do you celebrate grace when your life turns out differently than the one you dreamed?Kara Tippetts discovered how to find joy in the small moments of life. She learned how to hold tight to hope even while battling intense physical and emotional pain. And she lived out the truth that God can redeem any story.In her final book, Kara offers gentle reflections on living and dying well. She invites us to cultivate soft hearts even when we face great disappointment. Her ideas for living are hard-won, wrestled with in the crucible of family, illness, and faith. And her constant reminder is that whether we are in the midst of dark days or mundane moments Jesus is always there, life is surprisingly beautiful, and God is forever good.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781633896017
Publisher:	christianaudio.com
Publication date:	03/01/2016
Edition description:	Unabridged
Product dimensions:	6.38(w) x 5.44(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Kara Tippetts (1976–2015) was the author of The Hardest Peace and blogged faithfully at MundaneFaithfulness.com. Cancer was only a part of Kara’s story. Her real fight was to truly live while facing a crushing reality. Since her death her husband, Jason, is parenting their four children and leading the church they founded in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Carla Mercer-Meyer, a Southern California native, has a strong musical theater background, as she has been performing her entire life. Her credits include a guest appearance on The Morris Taylor Show, and her performances include Into the Woods and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, as well as many other theatrical productions. An AudioFile Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator, Mercer-Meyer resides in Southern California with her husband and four children. She is an avid audiobook listener and a book fanatic.

Table of Contents

Introduction

ACT ONE

1. Grace Dress
2. Magic Numbers and Lunchboxes
3. The Cost of the Cure
4. Big Day
5. Hard Hard
6. My Hero
7. Reasonable, Right?
8. Ugly Me
9. The Innocents
10. What Matters
11. Christmas Miracle
12. In Review
13. An Anxious Heart
14. Head Coverings and Hot Flashes
15. I Made It, But
16. How Did I Get Here?
17. Grace Shows Up
18. Suffering and Sovereignty
19. Insignificant Update and Selfish Desires
20. Poem for Jason’s Birthday
21. Heading Out
22. Dear Snow Day …
23. The Cancer
24. Divided Mind
25. Limping

ACT TWO

26. Mickey
27. The Worried Well
28. Cast Your Cares
29. Choosing A Mentor
30. Eagle Lake Camp
31. Always Move Towards
32. When Helping Helps
33. Life Without a Bucket List
34. Indicated, Not Conclusive
35. Dear Uterus …
36. No Stage Five
37. Me
38. Monday and Wednesday
39. Leaving on a Jet Plane
40. The Thrill of Fear
41. Time
42. Come to Me
43. Coming to Town
44. Quiet
45. Reflections
46. Quirks
47. No Awards Yesterday
48. Please!
49. I’m Needy
50. Craving Grace

ACT THREE

51. The Hardest Peace
52. A Little Bit of Paradise
53. A Love Story
54. A Million Little Pieces
55. Provision
56. Strength in Weakness
57. What I Most Want
58. What’s a Galley?
59. Graduation Speech—Evangelical Christian Academy Class of 2014
60. Choices
61. My Role
62. Scary Snort
63. New Borders
64. The LORD
65. Latigo Ranch
66. Jo and John
67. July 14
68. Jesus Knows
69. The Tears in My Popcorn
70. Harper Full of Joy
71. Dear Cancer …
72. Five Thoughts on Dying Well
73. Dearest J.K. Rowling …
74. It Is Love
75. Oh What a Night (Book Launch)

ACT FOUR

76. Something Else

Editorial Reviews

01/11/2016
The late Tippetts (1976–2015), who spent years with stage IV breast cancer, spent the bulk of her final days treasuring the time she had with family and friends. In this departing book, her poetic words live on to remind those who knew this remarkable woman and her work that life is precious. Tippetts’s compiled essays are drawn from her popular blog, Mundane Faithfulness. Readers will find themselves laughing at her take on everyday matters and weeping along with this young mother of four children, who just wants to see them grow up. Tippetts details the painful lows of fighting the disease and how completely undone she was by the grueling process. Whether the reader has cancer, knows someone who does, or simply hungers for a raw autobiography penned by an individual in the trenches, this heartrending text will not disappoint. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly