About the Book
Discover your surpassing peace and surest hope in crisis in sixty gospel-centered meditations. Natural disaster or relational disaster, broken body or broken marriage, job loss or loss of a loved one....Crisis thrusts us into a season of healing and recovery. The journey of recovery can arouse many emotions: shock, fear, anxiety, doubt, agony, anger. Into this place of strife and sorrow, Elizabeth Reynolds Turnage gives compelling reasons to hope: God has written a story that takes us from recovery to full restoration.
Each meditation contains Scripture, prayer, a relevant meditation, reflection questions, and suggested music.If you long to know the restoration hope that awaits beyond recovery, you need this book.
ADVANCE PRAISE:
"Trauma fragments our ability to think and make good choices. Far too often, we try to overcome the fragmentation by long winded words that only burden us with tasks that we can no more carry than run with a broken leg. What I need, and Elizabeth Turnage offers with brilliant simplicity and wisdom, is perspective that cuts to the chase and grounds me in what I know to be true. This life-giving devotional will offer you hope without denying the depths of the struggle. It will free your heart to be with Jesus."
DAN AND BECKY ALLENDER, FOUNDERS OF THE ALLENDER CENTER FOR TRAUMA AND ABUSE, AND FOUNDING PRESIDENT OF THE SEATTLE SCHOOL FOR THEOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY
"To recover is to return to normal. But what is normal? Because our lives are bruised and broken by the Fall we know deep down, that is an unrealistic target. Elizabeth Turnage yet again invites fellow sufferers to be nourished daily by doses of life-giving gospel truths. She encourages her readers to set their sights beyond a temporal cure or easy solution-Christ-likeness."
KAREN HODGECOORDINATOR OF WOMEN'S MINISTRIES FOR THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN AMERICA (PCA)AUTHOR OF TRANSFORMED: LIFE-TAKER TO LIFE-GIVER AND LIFE-GIVING LEADERSHIP
"When the storms of life crash into our lives, the devastation left behind is often overwhelming. Recovery and healing is slow and arduous. Elizabeth Turnage's devotional is for all those laboring toward recovery. From Recovery to Restoration is a hope-filled, gospel-laced, and Christ-exalting book which invites us into God's story of redemption and helps us see how he is at work to redeem and restore all things, even the aftermath of our personal losses, heartaches, and trials."
CHRISTINA FOX, WRITER, COUNSELOR, SPEAKER, AUTHOR OF A HEART SET FREE: A JOURNEY TO HOPE THROUGH THE PSALMS OF LAMENT
"Having personally known real crisis, both surviving Hurricane Katrina and Stage four colon cancer, I found that Elizabeth Turnage's thoughtful book perfectly captures the landscape of loss after devastating personal events, as she guides the reader through these difficult times to courage, peace, hope and the eventual restoration of all things."
JAMIE ATEN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, HUMANITARIAN DISASTER INSTITUTE; AUTHOR OF A WALKING DISASTER
"Whether it be in the midst of physical pain, addiction, abandonment, abuse, or habitual sin, Elizabeth will redirect your gaze over and over through scripture to meditate not on the gaping hole of your loss, but on the relentless pursuit of Jesus's love. From Recovery to Restoration is full of encouragement, practical steps, and reminders of the truth of God's faithfulness where trauma and tragedy have dominated. If pain has seemingly stolen some or all of your hope in the gospel, this is the book for you."
HOPE BLANTON AND CHRISTINE GORDON, AUTHORS, AT HIS FEET STUDIES
About the Author :
Elizabeth Reynolds Turnage, MEd, MACS, author, Bible teacher and gospel coach, wrote the bestselling devotional, The Waiting Room: 60 Meditations for Finding Peace & Hope in a Health Crisis. She and her husband, Kip, have walked through multiple crises and recoveries together. They enjoy spending time with their four adult children and their spouses. Learn more at www.elizabethturnage.com. Scotty Smith, foreword author, is Founding Pastor, Christ Community Church, Franklin, TN; Teacher-in-Residence, West End Community Church, Nashville, TN
Review :
What are you recovering from? A life-threatening illness or injury? The loss of a loved one? A financial setback? Abandonment? Life seems out of control? Uncertainty reigns?
Elizabeth Turnage's book From Recovery to Restoration was written for such a time as this. Sharing from her personal experiences of pain and loss, Elizabeth writes vulnerably and with vivid word pictures. In this 60-day devotional, covering myriad causes of trauma, you will journey through Scripture for encouragement and hope, connecting with the likes of King David in a dark valley, assured that the Good Shepherd was always with him. Each chapter guides you to personal prayer and reflection. Recovery is possible and restoration becomes reality.
Judy Douglass
Writer, Speaker, Encourager
Author of When You Love a Prodigal, Office of the President, Cru
Leading a mission agency, you see first-hand what it looks like for things to break down and fall apart. From personal losses, to physical danger, to the heartbreaking grief of ministry in a broken world, every cross-cultural worker faces hardship and crisis as a normal part of their calling. In honest, direct language, From Recovery to Restoration helps all who are suffering loss recalibrate their hearts and refocus their eyes on Jesus, who is our only true source of hope. The gospel not only gives us the freedom to name our need, our brokenness and our suffering--it also leads us back to the One who is making all things new, including our hearts. I'm profoundly grateful for the way Elizabeth Turnage models that journey for us.
Bob Osborne
Executive Director, Serge
After the death of our son Mark, I would have soaked in Elizabeth Turnage's book, From Recovery to Restoration. Elizabeth comes alongside broken people as a dear friend would, whispering in our ears, "This is the way, walk in it." Scripture that not only comforts but instructs a wounded person fills the pages and helps hurting people move from the waiting room to recovery and finally to restoration. Invite Elizabeth to walk with you in your journey toward restoration.
Sharon W. Betters
Director of Resource Development
MARKINC Ministries
With rich theological insight and refreshing transparency, Elizabeth Turnage helps us understand our lives as part of God's story of redemption and renewal. Day by day, the reader is invited into the unfolding mystery of God's providence and encouraged to remember that the God who laughs and sings is also the God who suffered and died to make us whole again. This book is a gift to the church.
Joel Treick
Senior Pastor, Pinewoods Presbyterian Church
