Her just-released book, “The Broken Way: A Daring Path Into the Abundant Life,” is about slashing her own wrists as a teenager.
But there are also stories of hope: Earlier this year, she and her husband, known to her readers as “The Farmer,” welcomed their seventh child, a baby girl they adopted from China who has an incurable heart defect. They also welcomed a Syrian refugee family they are sponsoring for a year in their town in rural Canada. After she shared on her blog the stories of women she met in Iraq who had fled from ISIS, her readers donated more than a half-million dollars in several days to an organization called Preemptive Love.
And many of those readers have accepted the dare of “One Thousand Gifts,” filling gratitude journals with lists of God’s gifts.
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