A Northern Ireland mum says the heartbreaking loss of her two young daughters in childhood led her to write about how pain can somehow become a springboard for hope.
Writer Catherine Campbell says her own terrible bereavement taught her how brokenness and hopelessness are the best places for growth and triumph.
A native of Belfast, Catherine now lives in Newtownabbey with her husband, Philip, after he retired as minister of Coleraine Congregational Church four years ago. In her latest book, 'God Isn't Finished With You Yet', she retells the stories of five of the most broken, socially isolated and rejected people in the Bible.
Abigail was trapped in marriage to a fool; John Mark ran away from his friends; The Samaritan woman faced shame in the society of her day; Judah sinned against Tamar and Joseph while Simeon and Anna had the challenges of old age. But God hadn’t finished with any of them. "All of his life, he's looked at people for who they are and not what they can do and I think that is one of the legacies that Cheryl and Joy left."
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