Beauty Beyond the Thorns

Discovering Gifts in Suffering

By: Darci J. Steiner

Narrated by: Darci J. Steiner, Mark Steiner

Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's summary

Pain and suffering in our lives do not equal a lack of love from God. Instead, they reveal, at the right time, a divine and perfect purpose packed with love.

Are you searching for hope amidst a trial? Beauty Beyond the Thorns offers a transformative perspective on where it can be found. Darci weaves biblical stories with modern-day stories, including her arduous journey through chronic pain, to demonstrate how God can turn life’s unexpected curveballs into victorious home runs. This is a story about the upside of suffering.

In Beauty Beyond the Thorns, you will learn:

• Suggestions as to why God allows suffering and how he provides gifts (like courage, perseverance, and direction) to guide you through difficulties
• How to experience peace, faith, and joy in suffering
• How God uses trials to transform you, just like he did with Job, Joseph, Hagar, and Paul
• To discover God’s goodness despite hardship
• How adversity can bring you closer to what you truly long for

The paperback Study Guide for Beauty Beyond the Thorns is also available to assist with deeper engagement and personal application. The books can be combined for Bible studies, support groups, church retreats, or individual study. Visit the author’s website at darcijsteiner.com.

©2022 Darci J. Steiner (P)2022 Darci J. Steiner

A Necessary Read

This book is a must have for every
believer, every sufferer, and every care giver. Excellent narration by the author lends insight and authenticity to every word. This book would be a great counseling tool or book for a small group study.

This book is a delight to the soul!

It is touching and uplifting! I love the phrase, “ The Lord, will fight for you, you need only to be still.” Another phrase I loved was, “When we suffer, we are carved .” In listening to this story, my perspective has now changed in overcoming challenges in my own life! It also spoke to my heart, and healed me from within as I too, had a distant relationship with my father. This book reminds me that it is in the hope of Him, that keeps us afloat! Thank you, Darci Steiner, your inspiring story has made me a more devoted and reliant Christian!

Julie C.

Poignant and filled with encouragement for journeys through hardship

Darci leads her readers through her journey of life with chronic pain with refreshing honesty. She doesn’t gloss over her struggles with clichés and Scripture verses. She is raw and honest. She tells her audience about the tears and depression and hopelessness she felt. Then, from the depths her her despair, she falls back into the arms of Jesus and allows Him to transformed her physical, emotional, and spiritual pain into beauty, even though the “thorns” remain. I appreciated Mark’s insight as a caregiver, a perspective all too often neglected. We all have our “thorns”, but Darci compels us to see that we also have a God who loves us beyond our understanding working through our pain to create something even more beautiful beyond them.

Hope through pain and suffering

There is something absolutely special about listening to a book being read aloud by its author. I have read Beauty Beyond the Thorns by Darci Steiner, and I enjoyed it very much. But listening to Darci and her husband reading it has brought the book to life! As a fellow sister-in-Christ who has endured suffering, I can personally attest to the truths that she shares. I am in complete agreement that the beauty that Our Lord brings out of our suffering far overshadows the pain of the thorns. Listen to Darci’s book Beauty Beyond the Thorns and find out how to have hope through it. 🙏✝️💖