Holding on To Hope

A Pathway Through Suffering to the Heart of God

"The world tells us to run from suffering, to avoid it at all costs, to cry out to heaven to take it away. Few of us would choose to suffer. Yet when we know that God has allowed suffering into our lives for a purpose, instead of running from it, we can embrace it, and look around for God in it."
Nancy Guthrie speaks to those who are hurting only as one who has hurt deeply herself has the credibility to do. Having lost a daughter and a son to a metabolic disorder, in Holding On to Hope, Nancy provides companionship to those walking through difficulty while also providing wisdom for the journey. With a mixture of gentle encouragement and hard-hitting truth, she invites readers to worship and thank God in the midst of their suffering, to submit to God's plan and purpose, and to trust Him in their darkest days.

By following the footsteps of history's most significant sufferer - Job-Holding On to Hope examines how a person can experience significant pain and loss, struggle and question God and emerge from the experience knowing God in a more intimate and meaningful way.

Holding On to Hope is now in seven languages including German, a UK edition, Korean, Chinese, Norwegian, and Danish.

Endorsements

In a world where so much attention has been focused on a Christian message of health, wealth, and prosperity, Holding On to Hope is like a beacon of Light, drawing the reader to God and God alone.
ANNE GRAHAM LOTZ, Best-selling author and speaker, from the foreword to Holding On to Hope

Holding On to Hope reads easy, runs deep, and enriches the heart! If you are stymied about God's goodness amidst life's heartaches, then this book's for you.
JONI EARECKSON TADA, Joni and Friends

Few people have lived-and continue to live-as deep a firsthand experience of pain and loss as Nancy Guthrie. For that reason alone her Christian reading of the story of Job should lay special claim on readers themselves undergoing suffering. But there are other inducements: the clarity, grit, and honesty with which Nancy explains how she has maintained hope a deepened faith where most would find only heartbreak.
DAVID VAN BIEMA, TIME magazine

Nancy Guthrie's book offers hurting people companionship as well as encouragement to pursue God in the midst of their suffering. Pastors can recommend it with confidence that it will make a difference.
DR. ED YOUNG, Pastor, Second Baptist Church, Houston

It's rare to find a book that combines insight, sensitivity, practicality and hope . . . this one does.
H. NORMAN WRIGHT, author and counselor

Only God could orchestrate such events. And only God could give the Guthrie family the faith and courage to live them. May He use this story to strengthen us all.
MAX LUCADO, best-selling author, Traveling Light

Nancy Guthrie's faith shines through some of the darkest clouds of human pain. This book and her story will touch your emotions and inspire your mind in an unforgettable way. Seldom will you read anything with such candor and insight, probing one of life's toughest questions: "How can grief be a friend along life's journey?"
RAVI ZACHARIAS, award-winning author, Cries of the Heart

You hold in your hand a treasure that was mined in a dark and frightening place. With transparent honesty, Nancy unwraps the joys and sorrows of her life. This is a book about life and our God, who holds us in all the moments of this life.
SHEILA WALSH, keynote speaker with WOMEN OF FAITH

If you want someone to know they are not alone in their pain and help them understand where God is in the midst of their pain, Holding on to Hope is the best resource available. While the world questions why God allows loss and pain, Nancy shows us how to face it. Read this book, recommend this book and hope that just a portion of her courage and faith rub off on you.
STEVE ARTERTBURN, New Life Ministries