AMBUSHED BY GRACE: HELP AND HOPE ON THE CAREGIVING JOURNEY
By Shelly Beach
Publisher: Discovery House Publishers
Release Date: November 2008
ISBN: 978-1-57293-242-5
Copyright © 2008 by Shelly Beach
Caregiving is messy and costly—physically, emotionally, and financially—the hardest work you will probably ever do. Yet it is can also be a gift that changes your heart and transforms your life.
View the book trailer here
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This is the book that every caregiver needs. It offers practical advice, web sites, phone numbers, and wisdom from experts in the fields of geriatrics and family counseling. Most importantly, Shelly says, this book is intended “to draw you into the Word and to sensitize you to the work of the Spirit of God in your life. To make caregiving simply a task is a distortion of its purpose; rather, it is a divine appointment a redemptive encounter, and an act of worship.”
Read the first chapter here
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Topics Addressed: assessments for in-home care, burnout, caregiving realities, compromise, boundaries in caregiving, communication, creating stories, driving, expectations in caregiving, grace, guilt, sibling relationships, websites
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AUTHOR BIO
Shelly Beach is the award-winning author of both fiction and nonfiction. Her first novel, Hallie’s Heart (Kregel Publications), earned a Christy Award for contemporary fiction, and that same year her first nonfiction book, Precious Lord, Take My Hand, Meditations for Caregivers (Discovery House Publishers) was a finalist for an Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Award in the Gift and Inspiration category. Her additional titles include Morningsong (contemporary fiction, Kregel Publications), Ambushed by Grace: Help and Hope on the Caregiving Journey (Discovery House), and The Silent Seduction of Self-Talk (Moody Publications). She is also a contributor to numerous Bibles, including the forthcoming Zondervan’s NIV Stewardship Study Bible, releasing this fall. Shelly is a member of the Advanced Writers and Speakers Association, American Christian Fiction Writers, and Christian Authors Network and speaks across the country at retreats, conferences, and seminars. She is the co-founder of the Cedar Falls Christian Writer’s Workshop in Iowa and the Breathe Christian Writer’s Workshop near Grand Haven, Michigan.
Visit Shelly’s website at www.shellybeachonline.com and www.shellybeachonline.wordpress.com
You can order this book directly from your local bookstore, or online here: http://http://www.dhp.org
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