This Beautiful Truth

How God's Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness

By: Sarah Clarkson

Narrated by: Carla Mercer-Meyer

We live in a broken world. Amid the daily realities of sickness and isolation, disappointment and pain, it can be profoundly difficult to grasp the real goodness of God. But this is where God breaks into our darkness with beauty. In the wonder of creation, in art or film, story or song, in the kindness of his people and the good they create, God breaks into our pain in a tangible way, teaching us to trust his kindness and hope for his healing. Beauty is a voice singing into our suffering, beckoning us toward restoration.

In This Beautiful Truth, Sarah Clarkson shares her own encounters with beauty in the midst of her decade-long struggle with mental illness, depression, and doubt. In a voice both vulnerable and reflective, she paints a compelling picture of the God who reaches out to us in a real and powerful way through the "taste and see" goodness of what he has made and what he continues to create amid our darkness. "To recognize and trust God's gift in pain," she writes, "empowers us to create and love as powerful witnesses to God's healing love in a hopeless world."

If you want to renew your capacity to recognize and encounter God's beauty in your life, this hope-filled book will show you the way.

©2021 Sarah Clarkson (P)2021 eChristian

Lovely perspective & journey

Appreciate her vulnerability and perspective. It’s well written & encouraging. I hope more read this for perspective and approach to others struggling with insecurities and pause in moments before action to extend Grace & mercy to others :)

Beautiful!

Highly recommend. I was moved by so much of this book. I can’t say enough about it.

Such a great book!!!

I am so thankful for your full vulnerability! This book has been so encouraging for me! Thank you!!!

Speaks to my soul

Heartbreakingly beautiful. Sarah's gentle words are deeply refreshing and restorative to my soul. Excellent book. A delight and joy to read.

God’s Goodness does break into our Darkness

This book by Sarah Clarkson was deep and yet rich, haunting but yet beautiful, vulnerable but yet full of confidence about brokenness and how it can beautifully shape the soul. It spoke to my heart as the author carried it along in her story. Her vulnerability to share so openly about great suffering is what readers need to hear, and then to hear the hope and the healing that also can be experienced is hugely comforting. Too often, the raw words are not spoken. Or if they are, readers are uncomfortable with them, thinking the author has said to much. But to acknowledge and then receive the words, find healing in someone else’s story and believing it can happen in your own life is the power of sharing.

I would recommend this book to anyone who cannot seem to find the hope or light in the midst of their darkness. The author Sarah points to the only One who can offer true hope and the beautiful truth that God’s Goodness can and does indeed break into our darkness if we choose to seek Him and what He offers us. She testified to that in her story and gave many practical examples of how to go about finding the beauty of this truth. Chapter 9 was my favourite out of the 10 chapters. Just like in life, one must get through the messiness in order to get to the good. Highly recommended.