Katherine Elizabeth Clark - Where I End: A Story of Tragedy, Truth, and Rebellious Hope

Having lived with quadriplegia for more than fifty years, Ive heard a great many stories about people who have suffered life-altering injuries. But some rise above the restperhaps its the skill in storytelling, or how this person becomes a precious friend with every chapter. Its how I feel about the book you hold in your hands. Kate Clark understands pain and loss like few do, but is able to share that in an impossibly winsome, personal way. I give Where I End my strong recommendation, and who knows? This Spirit-inspired story may even alter your life before you turn the last page.

JONI EARECKSON TADA
Joni and Friends International Disability Center

Kate Clark is one of the most remarkable people I have ever met. She is also one of the best writers and all that she is and all that she has been through is told so well in Where I End. Her story will inspire you to hang on to God when the unexpected tragedy strikes you. It will reveal how anyone can get through anything by trusting God, and doing whatever you can to move forward. There are tears from Kates story born out of loss and the joy of a new life found. Read this book. You will not be disappointed and you will not be the same when you are finished.

STEVE ARTERBURN
Founder of New Life Ministries and Women of Faith

Where I End shook me to the core and left me on my knees in worship. Many theologians can write sound doctrine, but few can write it as beautifully as Kate Clark has done. Her elegant prose, courageous vulnerability, spritely humor, and profound insights take us deep into a narrative of fearsome suffering and godly perseverance. Any Christian trying to find Gods face in the midst of hardship needs to read this book. Clarks story reminds us that only when we reach our end do we truly discover where Jesus Christ begins.

BRYAN M. LITFIN
Professor of Theology, Moody Bible Institute

Katherine Elizabeth Clark says, I will not try to explain suffering. She stays true to her words. What she does instead is show us what suffering looks like, the kind of suffering that happens when something gets broken amid children on a playground, and that something is you. But in addition, she shows us what resilience looks like, what the Christian calls hope. What this woman and wife and mother and daughter and friend discovers is that so much depends upon the Son of Man, hanging on a cross, embracing fully a great sadness, but also the beautiful grace of God.

JOHN BLASE
Author of The Jubilee and Know When to Hold Em: The High Stakes Game of Fatherhood

A single tragic moment altered the course of Katherine Clarks life. Where I End is a story about that moment, but also about so much more. Clark writes with grace, depth, candor, and maturity about her difficult journey toward both healing and acceptance of her new life. Where I End offers powerful insight about the nature of discipleship for anyone who has found that their life has taken a turn into uncharted territory.

MICHELLE VAN LOON
Speaker, blogger, and author of the forthcoming Born to Wander: Recovering Our Pilgrim Identity

In what she calls her horrible wonderful story, Kate Clark refuses to sentimentalize suffering or to bring false closure to the potentially tragic event that changed hers and her familys lives forever. Instead, she offers the reader the unexpected: an unclichd account colored with sensory, lively writing laced with touches of humor and whimsy, girded with theology, and embedded in the hope that Christ, not circumstances, offers.

ROSALIE DE ROSSET
Professor of Communications and Literature, Moody Bible Institute

This book is for those who suffer and those who care for the suffering; in other words, this book is for all of us. Within a great constellation of Scripture, theologians, and storytellers, Clark gives language to what increases our suffering and what eases our suffering. Clarks gentle movement between her story of pain and her wisdom about that pain reminds us of Gods movements of grace in the midst of suffering.

NICOLE MAZZARELLA
Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College; author of This Heavy Silence, a Christy Awardwinning novel, and winner of the 2006 Christianity Today Book Award for fiction

Kates story stirs me as a mother and wife, a physician, and a Christian. While it is a story of healing, it is even more a story of a daily walk with Christ through suffering. Throughout the telling, she references other beloved stories and ultimately points us to the greatest story and, in doing so, gives us a glimpse of suffering imbued with beauty, dignity, and hope.

MARTHA MCGRAW
Neurologist, Northwestern Medicine

2018 by
KATHERINE ELIZABETH CLARK

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Interior design: Erik M. Peterson
Author photo: Michael Hudson Photography
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Clark, Katherine Elizabeth, author.

Title: Where I end : a story of tragedy, truth, and rebellious hope / Katherine Elizabeth Clark.

Description: Chicago : Moody Publishers, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017040146 (print) | LCCN 2017047170 (ebook) | ISBN 9780802496348 | ISBN 9780802416834

Subjects: LCSH: Consolation. | Suffering--Religious aspectsChristianity. | Accident victims--Religious life. | Accident victimsUnited States. | Clark, Katherine Elizabeth.

Classification: LCC BV4905.3 (ebook) | LCC BV4905.3 .C533 2018 (print) | DDC 277.3092 [B] dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017040146

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