Hope When Your Heart Is Breaking: Finding God's Presence in Your Pain Paperback – January 5, 2021

HOPE When Your Heart Is Breaking by Ron Hutchcraft was NOT what I expected when I volunteered to read it. What I found within its pages was so much more! Author Ron Hutchcraft has penned a treatise on how to live life and capture the true peace to which all of us are called. Through sound teaching and real-world examples, Pastor Hutchcraft shows his readers that it is not just the loss of a loved one that can cause the kind of PAIN that leaves scars on the inside. Scars that others can’t see but can be just as debilitating as a broken limb or an organ that has ceased to function. The real power of the message in HOPE When Your Heart Is Breaking is found in the illustrations of practical choices one can make to seek a positive future through healing and avoid the choices that offer only increased injury and/or pain. It is NOT merely when we face great loss, as with the death of a family member or close friend that we grieve. Nor does that confusing, dizzying sense of inertia only felt when one faces something big. The accumulation of the little scars can be debilitating. There are so many situations, challenges and experiences that everyday people face every day which can rob them of the motivation and confidence to face forward. These practical examples provide a next step when prayers are answered with a “No” (“I have a plan for you.”), when one’s marriage, job, or school become a burden, or the scars of past choices hack away one’s harmony in the present and one’s confidence for a future. Considering all of the changes and challenges we have faced this past year, HOPE When Your Heart Is Breaking by Ron Hutchcraft is perfectly timed. It’s not a preachy message, nor does the reader have to be a Christian by name or in the midst of a great loss. The message is inspirational, practical and motivational especially when the internal scars are piling up - when life gets hard, heavy and overwhelming. Through inspirational, real-life examples, Ron Hutchcraft offers practical, Biblical steps to help readers find their footing, and to open a reader’s heart to HOPE even in the midst of overwhelming challenges, pain and/or suffering. If you recognize the need to make better life choices for your future, then HOPE When Your Heart Is Breaking by Ron Hutchcraft should be your next book purchase. I volunteered to read a copy of HOPE When Your Heart Is Breaking, and it has easily earned this voluntary 5+STAR recommendation for its easy-to-read prose and inspirational, yet practical, message. I STRONGLY suggest that you get your copy of HOPE When Your Heart Is Breaking today. Happy pages! 😉

If you’ve heard or read any of Ron Hutchcraft’s content before...you know that you know that you know - that you are hearing from someone who wants to spend his very life, and every single breath afforded him, helping others find hope….specifically hope anchored in the person of Jesus Christ. Some might say that’s a noble thing...others might call it inspirational. To those whom his messages reach with the clarion call of hope in the darkest of valleys - it’s downright life changing. That is what I found when reading the chapters of this very special offering.This book is so incredibly helpful to those who have lost loved ones to death...but in my personal experience...what I found, is that it was an incredibly healing tool also for those who have lost loved ones to "life." In my journey, I have close family and friends that have dark struggles with depression, mental illness, and addictions that have gone on for years and years. They seem helpless to help themselves, which leaves those around that love them, feeling helpless too, as they watch them make destructive choices over and over again. We don’t feel the loss of losing them to death, but rather losing them to their own life, behaviors, and patterns.I was in the middle of portions of my own grief journey with one such loved one when I picked up this book. Some pages helped me breathe again, others gently coaxed long-held-down emotions surface so that the liberation of tears could finally flow. Other pages helped anchor me in truth. And still other pages helped me feel not so alone as it is a clear universal truth each human experiences pain, loss, and brokenness in this life. Loss is common to us all - but hope comes to those who choose it, accept it, and let it wash over them. Ron helps those choices be known...and hope springs forth like a long-awaited promise after a cold, harsh winter.There are many books available about grief. Many tools in the toolbox, so to speak. But some tools rise above others. This book is one such tool. Ron practically, simply, but absolutely genuinely - brings such a comprehensive healing help to the forefront as he addresses “hope-robbers” in many landscapes and crises of life: not only loss in terms of death of a loved one...but loss in terms of your own heart, love, dreams, health, and your past. Many books stop there - helping us language what we’ve lost - which is indeed a beginning help. But THIS book takes you to a higher and more thorough perspective - a climb up a holy mountain per se, to help you know, realize, and recognize the valuable CHOICES you have in your grief. I’ve been a long-time believer that God never, ever wastes our pain...but so many of us do. This book can help change all of that.“Hope When Your Heart Is Breaking” is life-giving, which sounds ironic when it’s a book on grief. Can you have both exist in the same sacred space? You better believe it. Through candid transparency and courageous vulnerability, Ron takes us through his journey...to help speak life into yours. Read it and I have every confidence you will find hope on each page...and in some cases...every sentence.This book will give you, as Ron writes: “The ability to see what you couldn’t see before” - how God can bring indescribable beauty from indescribable loss. It is a game changer when “defiant hope enters the picture.” Let Ron’s journey show you how.