The Way Back to Hope: The Truth about Overcoming Disappointment

What if you knew how to live unafraid and unoffended in the face of disappointment and loss? Discover a biblical framework for understanding life's most challenging seasons and keys for living in hope in the middle of the valley of the shadow of death.

We all face seasons of disappointment and loss in life. At such time, we often wonder:

• How do I find my way through?
• Was this God's will?
• Why did this happen?

These experiences and the questions they raise can easily send us spiraling into despair and disillusionment-but they don't have to. In The Way Back to Hope, Amy Calkins shares from her own journey of coming face-to-face with crippling disappointment and loss and how she found her way through. She does not offer good Christian answers or five-step solutions, but she does validate your pain, question some unhelpful (and unbiblical) theology, and point the way forward. The Way Back to Hope is an invitation to the journey from disappointment to fearless hope-a hope that stills the storm.

If you are living past your ability to see hope, this book will help you find helpful goals and bypass the lies that hinder and hurt us when we are discouraged.

-Danny Silk, President of Life Academy

Few writers could capture, as brilliantly as Amy has, the journey that touches us all at such a deep level. You will be profoundly impacted by this book, and you will be set free!

-Anna Kramer, Founder/Editor in Chief of World Changer Magazine

The truths in this book will lead you into the kind of hope that will not only cause you to weather the storms, but also access heaven's solutions for them.

-Larry Kreider, International Director of DOVE International

This book will keep your hope alive and, consequently, keep your soul healthy.

-Paul Manwaring, Senior Leadership Team, Bethel Church Redding; author of What on Earth is Glory, Kisses from a Good God, and Things Fathers Do

Amy guides us through the scriptures into the revelation of the God who is there and willing to bring healing and restoration of hope, no matter how much the trauma of life has brought devastation.

-Dr. Mike Hutchings, Director of Education at Global Awakening; President of God Heals PTSD Foundation

This book offers keys to breakthrough through biblically understanding the problem of pain, God's will in the middle of the storm, and how to tackle the why questions that leave us paralyzed.

-Theresa Dedmon, Pastor and Director of Create Academy

About the Author

Amy Calkins is a freelance writer and editor, a published poet, a former pastor, and a homeschool mom. She lives in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with her husband and four kids. Connect with Amy at www.amycalkins.com or on social media @amycalkins.