Sacred Refuge

Book excerpt: What if the soul-safe space you long for turned out to be what God most longs to give you? What if your crisis is the portal that takes you there? The world is broken. Wars shake the earth, natural disasters upend communities, crises hit our marriages and families, churches crumble under moral failure, sickness wracks our bodies. More than ever, we feel the effects of living in a fallen world. When crisis hits, our instinct says retreat. But have we considered where we’ve been hiding? Is it in a flimsy shelter of our own making? What if you could find a place where you feel “soul-safe,” where even the worst that life dishes out cannot shake your faith or steal your peace, but “steels” your peace? A place so deeply rooted in the presence and love of God that nothing can move you. In the pages of Sacred Refuge, meet ten modern and ten biblical women who stare in the face of homelessness and hunger, life-threatening illness, the loss of a child, debilitating sin, life-altering rejection, and untimely death. Across space and time, author Lynne Rienstra invites you to join this sisterhood and learn from their fears, mistakes, and triumphs. To enhance your journey, she adds biblical teaching, ten Transforming Truths, application questions, encounters with Jesus, and a study guide. Step out of your isolation—as these women did—and into Christ’s sheltering embrace. Learn how to live there as your permanent dwelling place. Invite others to share this sacred refuge. And begin to change the world.