Even After Everything
The Spiritual Practice of Knowing the Risks and Loving Anyway
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Stephanie Duncan Smith
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A “special work” (J. S. Park) that honors life’s deep griefs, great joys, and unsettled in-betweens through every sacred season, assuring us that we are never alone
“Oh, I love this book. . . . Honest and hopeful, masterfully written, both a balm and a bolstering.”—Shauna Niequist, New York Times bestselling author
Exquisitely told and urgently resonant, Even After Everything is a love letter to anyone who has opened their heart only to be hurt. Stephanie Duncan Smith proposes that it’s not through grit or forced resilience that you will find a way forward, but through receiving the full spectrum of our lives, just as we receive the empathy of God-with-us in every moment.
Duncan Smith’s disorientation began when she lost her first pregnancy on the winter solstice, just as the world readied to celebrate its most historic birth on Christmas. Then a new yet uncertain pregnancy unfolded parallel to the pandemic, until nearly one year to the day of her loss, she gave birth to her daughter at the peak of mortality in their city. These contradictions compelled Duncan Smith into a desperate search for steadiness, which she found in the liturgical year as a grounding force and the promise that we are seen by God in every season.
In Even After Everything, Duncan Smith traverses the church’s circle of time and reorients herself and us in the sacred story told through Advent, Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week, and Ordinary Time. She reveals the sacred year—through its endless interplay of love, loss, risk, and resurrection—as a mirror to the human experience, an anchor for turbulent times, and a womb strong enough to encompass every human care. At its heart lives the promise of God-with-us, inviting us into the spiritual practice of taking courage in the trust that we are accompanied in everything, and love will always have the last word.
©2024 Stephanie Duncan Smith (P)2024 Random House AudioListeners also enjoyed...
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- By hartman302 on 11-08-24
By: Lisa-Jo Baker
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Healing What's Within
- Coming Home to Yourself—and to God—When You're Wounded, Weary, and Wandering
- By: Chuck DeGroat
- Narrated by: Chuck DeGroat
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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We can’t always control what happens to us. But we can discover how to heal the hidden hurt it leaves behind. Not knowing what to do with your suffering and fearing you'll be hurt again, you’ve learned to cope, to numb and suppress the ache within. It doesn’t have to be this way. In Healing What’s Within, therapist and professor Chuck DeGroat invites you on a compassionate journey inward to return and retune to the life God created you to live.
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How worldly this book is
- By Gretchen B. on 10-18-24
By: Chuck DeGroat
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I Shouldn't Feel This Way
- Name What’s Hard, Tame Your Guilt, and Transform Self-Sabotage into Brave Action
- By: Alison Cook PhD
- Narrated by: Alison Cook
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Do you beat yourself up when what you feel doesn’t align with the person you think you should be? You “should” be a good friend, but you feel hurt by past betrayals. You “should” be content, but you feel lonely or unfulfilled. You “should” have faith, but you feel discouraged by unanswered prayers. Instead of working through these inner tensions, you guilt-trip or gaslight yourself, which just leaves you feeling stuck, defeated, and trapped by conflicting feelings. But there is another path.
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A must read
- By Edwin Rodriguez on 06-20-24
By: Alison Cook PhD
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You Lied to Me About God
- A Memoir
- By: Jamie Marich PHD
- Narrated by: Jamie Marich PHD
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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With resilience, strength, and gut-punching clarity, Marich takes listeners through a tumultuous coming-of-age marked by addiction, escapism, spiritual manipulation, misogyny, and abuse. She shares with unflinching detail the complicity of her mother’s silence and the lengths her father went to assert dominance and control over her body, her desires, her identity—and even her eternal soul—”for her own good” and with a side of televangelistic hellfire.
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Honest take on spirituality, mental health, and organized religion
- By jamie on 12-08-24
By: Jamie Marich PHD
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Waiting Isn't a Waste
- The Surprising Comfort of Trusting God in the Uncertainties of Life
- By: Mark Vroegop, Jen Wilkin - foreword
- Narrated by: Mark Vroegop, Jen Wilkin
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Throughout our lives, we experience countless periods of waiting. Some moments are mere nuisances—others are daunting seasons filled with intense worry and doubt. We grow impatient by immovable traffic or crave an impending answer to a medical condition. Whatever our current circumstances, our innate response is to take action rather than stay still. In Waiting Isn't a Waste, author Mark Vroegop calls believers to resist the human urge for control and lean on Christ for comfort while we wait for the uncertainties of life to unfold.
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Just what I needed!
- By Genesis Ambert on 12-28-24
By: Mark Vroegop, and others
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Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart
- What Art Teaches Us About the Wonder and Struggle of Being Alive
- By: Russ Ramsey, W. David O. Taylor
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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In Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart, Russ Ramsey digs into these artists' stories for readers who may be new to art, as well as for lifelong students of art history, to mine the transcendent beauty and hard lessons we can take from their masterpieces and their lives. Each story from some of the history's most celebrated artists applies the beauty of the gospel in a way that speaks to the suffering and hope we all face.
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Gentle theology through art
- By Kindle Customer on 01-02-25
By: Russ Ramsey, and others
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Emmanuel
- An Invitation to Prepare Him Room at Christmas and Always
- By: Ruth Chou Simons
- Narrated by: Ruth Chou Simons
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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From the bestselling author and artist behind GraceLaced and Beholding and Becoming comes this gorgeous exploration of what it means to intimately experience God’s presence in our daily lives. Ruth Chou Simons welcomes you and your family to partake in a season of surrender as you discover the true miracle behind Christmas: that while we journey to grow in our relationships with Jesus, He has already come so He can be with us forever.
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Easy to understand by a non English speaker
- By ana ramos ruiz on 12-25-24
By: Ruth Chou Simons
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I Bet You Think This Book Is About You
- How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Pride and Gain the Rewards of Humility
- By: Chad Veach
- Narrated by: Chad Veach
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Chad Veach tackles one of the Christian’s greatest foes: an obsession with self. Ego often sneaks up on us in varying forms of narcissism, subtly turning so much of our attention to our needs and desires that we fail to recognize other people’s. A self-proclaimed recovering narcissist, Veach has learned the power of humility. He wants to destigmatize the humility journey by normalizing the need for regular ego checks. A quick reset in attitude in any situation will create a delicate balance between self-denial and self-absorption.
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Full reflection in humility
- By Karla Borgendale on 01-15-25
By: Chad Veach
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The Undercurrent
- A Novel
- By: Sarah Sawyer
- Narrated by: Sara Sheckells
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s 2011 and Deecie Jeffries’s missing person’s case in Austin, Texas, is still cold. New mom Bee, struggling with postpartum depression, is living in Portland, Maine, having left Austin–and those memories–far behind. Until Leo, her childhood crush and her estranged twin Gus’s best friend, suddenly resurfaces, drawing Bee back into their shared past. Bee’s predictable life is upended, pushing her to return to her childhood home and piece together a neighborhood’s shattered history.
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Painfully slow and dull.
- By K. Grawe on 10-16-24
By: Sarah Sawyer
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How to Walk into a Room
- The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away
- By: Emily P. Freeman
- Narrated by: Emily P. Freeman
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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What do you do when you start to feel a shift and must decide if it’s time to make a change? When it comes to navigating big decisions about when to stay and go, how can we know for sure when the time is right? Though we enter and exit many rooms over the course of our life—jobs, relationships, communities, life stages—knowing how and when it’s time to leave is a decision that rarely has a clear answer.
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Circling with no clear direction
- By kh on 08-19-24
By: Emily P. Freeman
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Clear Mind, Peaceful Heart
- 50 Devotions for Sleeping Well in a World Full of Worry
- By: Lysa TerKeurst
- Narrated by: Ginny Welsch
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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What lies heaviest on your heart as you lay your head on your pillow? Are paralyzing fear and anxiety stealing tomorrow's peace? Listen to this invitation from Jesus: "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28 NIV). Experiencing this kind of rest won't come from escapism, more vacation days, or stuffing our feelings. Jesus Himself provides rest to our weary souls. While He may not always fix everything right away, we can fix our thoughts on His Word.
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Daily Encouragement
- By Michelle Kizer on 09-19-24
By: Lysa TerKeurst
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Headshot
- A Novel
- By: Rita Bullwinkel
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
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An unexpected tragedy at a community pool. A family’s unrelenting expectation of victory. The desire to gain or lose control; to make time speed up or stop; to be frighteningly, undeniably good at something. Each of the eight teenage girl boxers in this blistering debut novel has her own reasons for the sacrifices she has made to come to Reno, Nevada, to compete to be named the best in the country.
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Wonderful Narrator
- By love it on 08-09-24
By: Rita Bullwinkel
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Strong Like Water
- Finding the Freedom, Safety, and Compassion to Move Through Hard Things - and Experience True Flourishing
- By: Aundi Kolber
- Narrated by: Aundi Kolber
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
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Ff we spend our lives trying to be “the strong one,” we become exhausted, burned-out, and disconnected from our truest selves. What if it were different? Could there be a different way to be strong? Could strength mean more than pushing on and pushing through pain, bearing every heavy burden on our own? What if, instead, true strength were more like the tide: soft and bold, fierce and gentle, moving together as one powerful force? In Strong like Water, author and trauma therapist Aundi Kolber offers a framework for true flourishing.
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Validated, knowing restoration will come.
- By rocksteady on 10-14-24
By: Aundi Kolber
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- David
- 10-22-24
Wholehearted
This book gave rich language and concept to the loss and grief of losing a child too early and the forever different journey forward with embodied grief. Excellent read told with honesty and empathy
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- Carrie
- 10-30-24
10/10 will read again!
I bought this book without doing any research on the contents. I follow Stephanie on Substack and felt confident that whatever story she was telling was going to be well worth my time to read, and I wasn’t wrong. I myself am going through some tough uncertain circumstances and found a lot of comfort in the connections, traditions, and experiences Smith recalls when looking back at her journey. It’s reminded me to keep my faith and my heart open to evolving in the most unexpected moments. It’s given me inspiration for traditions that I would love to put in place in my own life, it’s encouraged me to have conversations with others close to me who I know are struggling in different circumstances but still struggling nonetheless, it’s kept me honest with my own hopes for the future, pushing back the temptation to make my world small so I’ll endure less risks of getting hurt. 10/10 will read again!
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- MB
- 11-09-24
Beautifully written and narrated
This was a great read and the author’s writing and narration flowed beautifully through her own experiences with pregnancy and motherhood, while weaving in elements of liturgy and Christianity. She offers a balanced perspective on loss, grief, pain, and making way for joy and peace in the wake of life’s difficulties. It was an uplifting experience that I’ll gladly recommend to others.
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- Amy Sytsma
- 11-27-24
Beautiful
I needed to read this. I think the epilogue might be the most powerful part.
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