Chapter 2: Amie
1. David Powlison, quoted in John Piper and Justin Taylor, eds., Suffering and the Sovereignty of God (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2006), 156.
2. Kate Clifford Larson, Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015), 176.
Chapter 3: Fifty Days
1. Ruth Hulburt Hamilton, “Song for a Fifth Child,” Ladies Home Journal, October 1958, 186.
2. C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed (New York: HarperCollins, 1994), 6.
Chapter 4: The Funeral
1. Angus Buchan, Faith Like Potatoes (Oxford: Monarch Books, 2006), 62–63.
2. Ibid.
Chapter 5: Flaws Revealed and Healed
1. Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey, season 1, episode 2, Brian Percival, Ben Bolt, Brian Kelly, Andy Goddard, James Strong, and Ashley Pearce (2010; Hampshire, England: Carnival Films and Masterpiece, 2010), DVD.
2. Timothy Keller and Kathy Louise Keller, The Meaning of Marriage (New York: Riverhead, 2011), 101.
3. Mental Health Act (Wisconsin 2005), accessed August 27, 2017, https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2005/statutes/statutes/51.pdf, 11.
4. David Powlison, quoted in John Piper and Justin Taylor, eds., Suffering and the Sovereignty of God (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2006), 156–57.
Chapter 6: The Broken Vessel
1. John Piper, “How Do You Keep Going?” DesiringGod.org, June 17, 2001, www.desiringgod.org/messages/how-do-you-keep-on-going-for-130-years.
2. Jon Bloom, “Lay Aside the Weight of Perfection,” DesiringGod.org, June 9, 2017, http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/lay-aside-the-weight-of-perfection.
Chapter 7: The Dark before the Dawn
1. Joni Eareckson Tada, quoted in John Piper and Justin Taylor, eds., Suffering and the Sovereignty of God (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2006), 196.
Chapter 8: The Tight Fist of Fear
1. Daniel Parker, Phrenology and Other Poems (Lowell, MA: S. W. Huse, 1859), 7.
2. Beth Moore, Esther: It’s Tough Being a Woman (Nashville: LifeWay, 2008).
Chapter 10: Strength Made Perfect in Weakness
1. Pam Rosewell Moore, Life Lessons from The Hiding Place: Discovering the Heart of Corrie ten Boom (Grand Rapids: Chosen, 2004), 53.
2. Widely attributed to Corrie ten Boom. Original source unknown.
3. Wisconsin State Legislature, Statute 448.30, accessed August 3, 2017, https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/448/III/50.
Chapter 11: Crazy Amazing Answers to Prayer
1. Ravi Zacharias, Cries of the Heart (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2001), 25.
2. Anthony Hopkins, in character as C. S. Lewis, says this line in Shadowlands, a movie based on the play by William Nicholson. Taken from a transcript of the film’s script. “Shadowlands,” Script-o-Rama.com, accessed August 4, 2017, www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/s/shadowlands-script-transcript-winger-hopkins.html.
3. Martha Snell Nicholson, “Treasures,” in Ivory Palaces (Chicago: Moody, 1946).
4. Kate Clifford Larson, Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015), 225.
5. Veryabc.cn, “Nobody’s as handsome as David…not even David,” Sabrina, directed by Sydney Pollack (Hollywood, CA: Paramount Pictures, 1995), accessed August 2, 2017.
Chapter 12: Stained Glass Windows
1. Steve Saint, quoted in John Piper and Justin Taylor, eds., Suffering and the Sovereignty of God (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2006), 117.
2. Ravi Zacharias, Cries of the Heart (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2001), 24.
Cori Salchert is a mother of fifteen kiddos and counting. She knows what it’s like to love deeply, while holding loosely to the terminally ill children she cherishes in her home for the brief time they live before dying. Her strength and hope is in God, and the pain and grief endured on earth is worth it because she’ll have forever to love her children in heaven.
Marianne Hering has been a writer and book editor in the Christian book market for more than 20 years. Her fiction series for children, The Imagination Station, has sold upwards of 500,000 copies. Currently, she works as the Senior Associate Editor of Focus on the Family magazine. Among the bestselling authors she’s worked with are Dr. Greg and Erin Smalley, apologist Dr. Alex McFarland, and pastor Dr. Tony Evans. She lives in Colorado Springs with her husband and twin sons.
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