Reading New York Times bestseller Katie Davis Majors’ latest book, Daring to Hope: Finding God’s Goodness in the Broken and Beautiful (Multnomah, October 2017), was like peering into Majors’ soul. Oftentimes heart-wrenching and always too close for comfort, the book leads readers to wrestle with their own doubt and fear that God may not be as good as we believe. “[E]ither God is not actually who He says He is, or He is and I needed to relearn how to know Him even in hardship,” she writes.
Majors, who adopted 13 Ugandan girls by her mid-twenties, lays bare everything in this sequel to her 2012 bestseller, Kisses from Katie (31 consecutive weeks on the NYT bestsellers list).
The young American missionary reflects on her intense journey of “wrestling with God” in the book, describing her faith when she first arrived in Uganda as “real” but “fragile.” She writes: “Reality would shatter my optimism, but I would realize that my positivity was only a cheap substitute for true hope anyway. The Lord would take the darkness and make it my secret place, the place where I knew Him more intimately and deeply than I had ever fathomed possible.”
Life shatters and doubt creeps forcefully into Majors’ heart when she loses her 4-y-o daughter to her biological mother, and…
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