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    Where I End: A Story of Tragedy, Truth, and Rebellious Hope
    Where I End: A Story of Tragedy, Truth, and Rebellious Hope
    Where I End: A Story of Tragedy, Truth, and Rebellious Hope
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    Where I End: A Story of Tragedy, Truth, and Rebellious Hope

    Written by Katherine Elizabeth Clark and Sarah Zimmerman

    Narrated by Sarah Zimmerman

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    “Those who are hidden in Jesus, though they suffer, will discover a more beautiful ending-or should I say beginning-than they ever could imagine.”Katherine Clark was just an average wife and mother with two young children when she was in a tragic playground accident in late May 2009. A little boy playing on the jungle gym jumped and landed on Kate's head, knocking her over and snapping her neck. Kate was paralyzed from the neck down. The doctors diagnosed her with quadriplegia and said she would never walk again.This terrifying prognosis could have been the end of the story. But instead, God chose to work a profound miracle in Kate's life and in the life of her family.Where I End tells the incredible story. Kate describes how God's presence carried her through the trying journey of re-learning to walk, both physically and spiritually. Throughout, she shares the deep theological truths that sustained her as she and her family traveled this difficult road.For fans of Ann Voskamp, Sheldon Vanauken, and Joni Eareckson Tada, Where I End offers hope, encouragement, and a timely reminder of who Jesus is: God with us. In a reflective, literary style, Kate invites readers to see pain and suffering within the context of God's loving, tender, powerful care-and there find hope.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristianAudio.com
    Release dateMay 31, 2018
    ISBN9781545907863

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      "The only faithful response to living this story is to tell it." This is the personal, true story of a figurative journey through drastic life change, physical disability, and faith. Kate Clark had embarked on another average suburban mom day of helping at her son's school, and mothering her younger daughter when a tragic accident altered that trajectory forever. Playing at recess with the school children, Kate is the unsuspecting landing for a child's fall from the top of the jungle gym. He breaks an arm, she severs her spinal cord and becomes a quadriplegic. (tetraplegia is the new correct term). This book recounts in her own words her miraculous recovery beyond what any doctors suspected, her community of support and faith, and her own faith beliefs that enable her to make peace with her new "normal." Though she has regained some of her movement and body function, there is still much she can no longer do and her effort and ability to make peace with this is very admirable. It is a great reminder of how much we take for granted in any given day and a beautiful story of acceptance and support from her family, especially her young children whose limited understanding both help and hinder the healing. Toward the end, she says: "I live gratefully beneath the shadow of pain and sorrow." (212). This isn't the peachy fairytale ending, but it is a happy one for what she has learned and what of that she is able to share. "Life is a mess and a miracle" she quotes Jennifer Trafton, and helps the reader see this truth as well.