The Gift of Limitations

Finding Beauty in Your Boundaries

By: Sara Hagerty

Narrated by: Sara Hagerty

Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins

Publisher's summary

Read by the author.

Are you feeling stretched to your limits and wish those limits weren't there at all? Bestselling author Sara Hagerty asks: "What if your greatest weaknesses—the areas of your life you resent the most, the places where you feel the most overextended and unfulfilled—are your doorway to rich intimacy with God? What if your limitations were, in fact, your greatest gift?"

It's all too much. Too much laundry and too many bills. Too many appointments, meetings, and open tabs on our browser. Yet in the midst of so much, we feel deprived. Limited. We make another family dinner while shelving our passion for art. We tend our tiny patch of grass while envying the time our neighbor has to garden. We go to bed exhausted, too tired to enjoy a few minutes with our own thoughts.

As a writer, speaker, and mother of seven, Sara Hagerty knows what limitations feel like. Yet she has also seen how the boundaries of our life circumstances can bring about growth and satisfaction we'd never experience otherwise. With the poetic voice, gentle validation, and deep spiritual insights that have made Sara's books so popular, The Gift of Limitations explores how to:

• Name the limitations that haunt us and how we have unknowingly given them power
• Open our eyes to what God can do with the weaknesses we resent
• Discover what God's Word says about living within our limitations
• Understand what embracing our limits looks like in everyday life
• Recognize when we are pushing ourselves too far
• Understand how God sees weakness and how He has used it in the lives of great believers
• Dream again while remaining tethered to God's best story for us
• Release the shame and frustration of our weaknesses

In The Gift of Limitations, you will learn to see the beauty and peace God provides in the midst of our life circumstances—and the deep spiritual growth we can experience through the limitations that we once thought held us back.

Scripture references can be found in the audiobook companion PDF download.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2024 Sara Hagerty (P)2024 Zondervan

Honest, Refreshing, and Encouraging

Sara’s writing is like water for a thirsty soul. Learning how to embrace “what is” rather than resist it has the potential to transform one’s experience of life and limitations. So grateful for this message!

Loved this book

This book was so good. So beautifully written and relatable. It felt like every page put into words what I’ve been feeling and going through with my own limitations. It was encouraging. I needed a better rest, a surrender, understanding of the “come, die, grieve, live cycle” and that peace, “the rest of a settle soul”. I’ll definitely be rereading this book and give it all the stars (and some extra for the adoration in the audiobook).


“And I suppose it didn’t feel like much of a loss until I found it again- that deep, guttural “I need nothing more than I need You” worship- and remembered that I am most alive when I worship. Finally alive.”

Deeply refreshing and nourishing

A decade with disabling illness has forced me to face life within the limitations of my body: extremely limited energy, chronic pain, unpredictable symptoms, exorbitant medical costs and profound medical mystery. Over the past year, God has been guiding me to acceptance and a release of pursuing answers. He has taken me through the journey Sara describes as death, grief and resurrection so many times. He hasn't given me a medical miracle, but He has miraculously restored my Living Hope myriad times. This is the greater miracle. Listening to her audiobook this week has been a tremendous balm for my soul. Although our limits are vastly different, our God's desire within the fenceline is similar. This book affirmed so many moments when God has gently pried my white-knuckled fingers off broken dreams and held my heart. He has brought tremendous beauty through His presence with me and given me more than health could provide. Sara's voice through the audiobook along with her adorations made this feel like a friend holding me in a hug and God coming near us both. I highly recommend this to anyone longing for more of God, particularly in challenging situations that aren't changing.

Resonates deeply for this overwhelmed mama

A new perspective on the limitations of my life-my time, my energy, my mothering, etc.