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Stone Crossings: Finding Grace in Hard and Hidden Places | 
 enlarge | Author: L. L. Barkat
Publisher: IVP Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 687805
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0830834958
Dewey Decimal Number: 242
EAN: 9780830834952
ASIN: 0830834958
Publication Date: April 30, 2008
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Product Description
Sometimes it's hard to see grace. And even harder to receive. When you're hurt or angry or confused or doubtful, grace can seem as hard tograsp as the sky. But actually, it's as real and solid as stones: tangible, weighty, something to hold on to, a way through streams of pain, shame, abuse. In these pages L.L. Barkat shares her own painful, powerful story with us. Weaving in truth from Scripture, words from other writers and stories of people who've come alongside her in her journey, she shows us the unexpected ways and places she's discovered grace: grace that has helped her open her heart to love, discover a way past fear, find freedom from shame. Her story will help you find the rock of God's grace in the midst of your own broken, hard places. And his grace will give you a new story to tell.
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Everyone needs something to hold on to July 11, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Everyone needs something to hold on to, in order to brace themselves against the oncoming storm that is life. "Stone Crossings: Finding Grace in Hard and Hidden Places" is L.L. Barkat's reflections on her journey through this terrible storm, finding her comfort in the words of other writers, stories of the people alongside her, and in God. A charming and inspirational story all the way through, "Stone Crossings: Finding Grace in Hard and Hidden Places" is a top pick for community library memoir collections and for anyone who also needs something to hold on to.
Highly Recommend May 27, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If L.L. Barkat wrote fiction, surely a Pulitzer would be awarded. Not only will you find Grace abounding in these pages, connecting her/our hard memories to larger spiritual truths, but you'll find writing that soars far above anything you've read lately, maybe ever. A very excellent read.
Seasoned Reflections April 28, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Stone Crossings shimmers with grace: experienced, reflected, and expressed. Writing with great self-awareness (but without self-absorbtion), L. L. Barkat confronts pain and evil with truth-telling and grace-extending realism and hope. She weaves life's threads -- abandonment and abuse, poetry and panic, family and fear -- into a tapestry shaped by faith (without losing the texture of reality.)
Most books of this type fail either (a) because they sugar coat reality or (b) because they gloss over Scripture's ambiguities and tensions. L. L. Barkat engages life and Scripture with fearless (and sometimes fearsome) honesty.
If you enjoyed L'Engle's Crosswicks Journals, Lamott's Travelling Mercies, or Robert Benson's Living Prayer, you'll enjoy this book.
Beauty from Pain April 24, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
L. L. Barkat is a revelation. She possesses an eye for striking detail and a refreshing honesty that draws you in. In "Stone Crossings," she shares a journey marked by early pain and abuse, but one ultimately redeemed by the discovery of irresistible grace.
She is a poet whose words both shock and heal. She is a teacher whose grasp of the Scriptures and personal acquaintance with God's love make her story resonate. At 176 pages, "Stone Crossings" is a fairly quick read; yet it's one that will prompt readers to pause often for long moments of reflection and to savor Barkat's poetic gift.
For anyone who has felt the hurt and rejection of a troubled upbringing, for anyone who now lives with the enduring shame and guilt of abuse, for anyone who longs for healing, Barkat's story is for you. This is a deep and transforming book that manages to be literary, therapeutic, and theological all at the same time.
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