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If you are experiencing a season of suffering, you will find hope, humor, and healing throughout the pages of Beauty Beyond the Thorns: Discovering Gifts in Suffering. Modern-day stories of suffering are paralleled with biblical accounts of healing that will both enrich your understanding of the Bible and provide hope for your personal journey. We all need healing, whether experiencing physical or emotional pain from the thorns of divorce, job loss, grief, addiction, disability, or financial troubles. When we follow Jesus, God offers us gifts such as joy, hope, compassion, and mercy to help us not only endure our suffering but flourish in it. In Beauty Beyond the Thorns: Discovering Gifts in Suffering and its companion, Study Guide for Beauty Beyond the Thorns: Discovering Gifts in Suffering, Darci inspires and equips both men and women to endure trials through meaningful insights she has gained during her physical disabilities and emotional suffering. Look inside for inspiration and to learn how to discover empowering insights to assist you along your healing journey.

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Darci has written a book laced with hope and courage and tenacity. She reminds us of the backwards economy of Jesus where the weak are the strong and those who sometimes feel left behind will lead us. -BOB GOFF author of the New York Times best-selling books Love Does; Everybody, Always; and Dream Big Most of us struggle with the question of how and why a good God can allow deep loss and painful suffering in the people who cry out to Him in anguish and despair. Beauty Beyond the Thorns suggests answers, as it reveals deep transformation in the heart and soul of a courageous woman who refuses to give up. -CHRISTINA VESELAK, MS, LMFT, CN Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist If you are hurting, or if you know and love someone who is, this is for you. If you want to deepen your walk with God as you travel through this broken world, this is for you. As one who has counseled people for nearly 25 years, this book will be a go-to on my Christian therapist's shelf! -DR. TRACY JONES, Ed.D, LPC, LMHC Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Mental Health Counselor Darci has an excellent and rare presence as an author. She is beautifully honest, humble, and powerful. Her beauty lies in the calmness of her tone while discussing earth-shattering revelations about God and suffering. Truly, I wish I had had Beauty Beyond the Thorns to read when I went through the last 5 years of my own life. Steiner's premise is while she previously went through tragedy and pain, she realized good DID come from it. To now be suffering again, Darci is almost suffering with excitement for what God is trying to teach her. It's astounding. -KASSIDI SIKES Manuscript Editor In this moving and very personal book, Darci Steiner allows the wisdom of scripture to be refracted through the prism of her own suffering. Even in the midst of pain, she finds gifts from God everywhere in her experience, and she has written in this volume a testament that is itself a gift to all who read it. -DR. THOMAS G. LONG Bandy Professor Emeritus of Preaching, Candler School of Theology, Emory University Darci Steiner perfectly blends the Bible with the triumphs and tragedies of everyday life in her book, Beauty Beyond the Thorns. Every chapter of leaves you longing for the next, to see how spirituality and the human spirit can work together to make the world a better place. A must-read for your soul! -GREGORY NIETO Reporter, Channel 2 & FOX31 Denver Within the pages of Beauty Beyond the Thorns: Discovering Gifts in Suffering you'll be taken on a journey to find hope in the most unexpected places. Darci Steiner shares truth that is often hidden by our own experiences of pain. But her words and personal story will help you to find what God may want to do with your story as well. -DON TALLEY Associate VP, Youth for Christ USA A journey through time, culture, pain, and the divine stories found within them all, Darci Joy Steiner's unique devotional is one to be savored slowly. Each chapter in Beauty Beyond the Thorns: Discovering Gifts in Suffering is filled with perspective that can only come from one who has walked out the reality of each title. You'll not find shallow platitudes; rather, you'll be deeply encouraged in your own journey of faith to see God's presence in rich and meaningful ways. -RONNE ROCK author of One Woman Can Change the World: Reclaiming Your God-Designed Influence and Impact Right Where You Are

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Darci J. Steiner has served in the ministry as a teen and women's ministry leader, as well as assisted with church plants in Denver and Los Angeles. In 2001, Darci nearly lost her life after a debilitating fall. During her recovery, she earned her Master of Science degree in Holistic Nutrition and implemented natural remedies into her diet that helped save her life. When Darci became disabled a second time after a foot injury in 2018, she turned her focus toward ministry again by writing her debut book, Beauty Beyond the Thorns: Discovering Gifts in Suffering and its companion, Study Guide for Beauty Beyond the Thorns: Discovering Gifts in Suffering. Darci and her husband have two adult daughters and one baby granddaughter. They live in the Denver area.

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