{ "item_title" : "Stirred by Grace", "item_author" : [" James Ridley", "Melody Madsen "], "item_description" : "Melody Madsen has lost three daughters and her own mother out of a moving vehicle - none of them badly, all of them memorably. She has wiped her husband's chest down with the wrong end of a medical supply package the morning of his surgery. She has climbed staircases, walked into the wrong dressing room, and once made an evangelist's wife the subject of a hobo-camp song written fresh every single year. Her life, as her husband puts it, is just funny. She doesn't have to try. But Stirred by Grace isn't only the story of a pastor's wife who can't stop things from going sideways. It's also the story of the night her husband was told he needed new lungs - and the three days that followed. It's the story of prayers that took years to answer, and some that never were, and what she learned to do with both. Fifty-one years of marriage, three daughters, a foster daughter, four grandchildren, and one small-town California church will do that to a person: teach her that laughter and grief are neighbors, not opposites, and that grace shows up in both. Inside these pages you'll find: Stories - some laugh-out-loud, some tender, a few that will catch you off guard.Original poems, written to be read when speaking the words plainly, are too hard.Family recipes, tested in real church-lady kitchens.Simple Bible helps and checklists for the days you're angry, discouraged, worried, or just tired.Melody writes the way she talks - unhurried, honest, and never far from a Bible verse fit for the moment. And she is not shy about why she wrote this book. Woven through every story is an invitation, stated plainly by the book's end: to know the same Jesus Christ who took her own life ravaged by sin, guilt, and pain and made it whole. Come for the stories. Stay for the laughter. Leave knowing exactly where grace came from.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/817/123/9798171231323_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "11.99", "online_price" : "11.99", "our_price" : "11.99", "club_price" : "11.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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