Sharon A. Hersh - Belonging: Finding the Way Back to One Another

If you feel alone and stuck, read this book. Rediscover our rescue story and a love worth living for.

BOB GOFF, bestselling author

I know Sharon Hersh, and I am privileged to be a part of her story. I have witnessed some of the heartache she writes about and the war of desire that she names with raw, stunning, and life-giving truth. This book, like her life, is a song written in the minor key that makes me tremble with the hope that I, too, broken as I am, might be the delight of God. Sharon takes us to the deeper story that always intersects with our worst moments and most mundane days and transforms us as the truest storyteller rewrites what we fear can never be told. Belonging will change the trajectory of your story and help you join the stories around you with wisdom and joy.

DAN B. ALLENDER, P H D, professor of counseling psychology and founding president, The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology; author of To Be Told, The Wounded Heart, and Healing the Wounded Heart

Sharons book is life-changing. She shares her struggles and brokenness with such daring vulnerability, it makes you feel safe to explore the pages of your own wounded history. I found myself highlighting line after line. So much wisdom and perspective in these pages. I truly believe this book will help so many on the search to understand the center of our earthquakes and the healing that is possible when we live our lives with open hands and honesty.

CINDY MORGAN, singer/songwriter; author

I couldnt stop reading this book. Sharon Hersh is a true sage, and wisdom seeps through each page of costly reflection and bloody experience. I could trust that she had gone before me, cleared the path, and was leading me into the arms of a wildly loving God who was aching for my return home. Buy this book, and be forever marked.

ANDREW J. BAUMAN, author of Stumbling toward Wholeness

Belonging is Sharons most important book yet. Were invited into the ache of the More we all long for, not least through Sharons vulnerable storytelling. In a culture hungry for what is illusive, grasping for what is just out of reach, her story invites us to rest in the Love which is already ours.

CHUCK D E GROAT, professor, therapist, author

Belonging... the very title made my heart lurch with longing. Sharons luscious prose and heart-wrenching transparency freshly illuminated my journey within the narrative of the larger human story God is writing amid the ache and chaos of planet earth. If you, too, are looking to move beyond your secrets, to find transformation through pain, Sharon points us toward a God big enough to sweep us into the community of the beloved. The place where we are finally and ultimately Home.

JEROME DALEY, executive coach and spiritual mentor at Thrive 9 Solutions; author of Gravitas

Has the church become an impostor factory? Right now, our machine learning and cognitive technology has already surpassed humanity in matters of self-awareness toward relevant, effective responses. For many, this is cause for great concern. But not for those who are brave enough to step out of the narcissism created by unresolved pain and into the realm of authenticity and true community. Belonging unravels the mystery of why its impossible to get close to someone who is always trying to be in control. It reads like a guidebook toward rediscovering the wonder of a six-year-old and courageously invites us to consider what we can learn from Judas about ourselves. If youve ever felt shackled with a burden of pain or loved someone who is trapped in the worst parts of their story, this book with simplicity and compassion throughout offers a path toward healing for those who are willing to do the hard and humbling work of facing the inner giants that block our way to freedom.

JUNI FELIX, member of Stanford Behavior Design Lab teaching team; author

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Belonging: Finding the Way Back to One Another

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ISBN 978-1-63146-960-2

ISBN 978-1-63146-962-6 (ePub); ISBN 978-1-63146-963-3 (Kindle); ISBN 978-1-63146-961-9 (Apple)

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for all who
are longing for

Home

Belonging is a story

that makes you feel at home just by hearing it.

Belonging is like a family where everythings all right.