Kara Lawler - Everywhere Holy: Seeing Beauty, Remembering Your Identity, and Finding God Right Where You Are

Praise for Everywhere Holy

This beautifully written book will give you eyes to see the God hiding in plain sight in your right-now life. If your life has felt too busy or complicated for God, Kara will gently take you by the hand and help trace the sacredness of your days as they stand right now. Her words will restore souls.

SARAH BESSEY, AUTHOR OF MIRACLES AND OTHERREASONABLETHINGS AND JESUS FEMINIST

In our hurried, overly-connected, under-nurtured culture, we need easily accessible, grace-filled forms of refuge. Places we can show up late, messy, scared, and imperfect, yet still be seen, restored, and encouraged. With relatable truths and exquisite insights, Kara Lawler invites us to discover just how close we are to the peace, promise, and fulfillment of God. If youre feeling weary, worried, or plain worn outlook no further. Everywhere Holy is your guidebook to finding real hope, relatable faith, and therapeutic peace.

RACHEL MACY STAFFORD, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HANDS FREE MAMA, HANDSFREE LIFE, AND ONLY LOVE TODAY

From the moment I opened Everywhere Holy, Kara Lawlers exquisite stories made me breathe easier, lighter, and more rhythmically. Reading her reflections, I felt time stopping and my soul being nourished with each story. In our culture of busy and disconnect from our own hearts, one another, and nature, Kara invites us into her home, onto her land, and into moments of exhale, connection, and slowing down to feel the pulse of the Holy in our lives. Kara genuinely shares with us her struggleswithin her own heart and relationshipsand her grace-filled moments of peace and connection. In doing so, readers will find themselves feeling less alone, more hopeful, and better able to see and experience it all as holy. Our world is hungry for such experiences of the divine and remembering that its all holy. Kara gently takes our hand and leads right here into the holy.

LISA MCCROHAN, MA, LCSW-C, SOMATIC EXPERIENCING PSYCHOTHERAPIST AND AUTHOR OF GEMS OF DELIGHT

In Everywhere Holy, Kara Lawler reminds us of the beauty that surrounds us every day, when we dare to live with eyes wide open. As we honor the sacred around us, we find more of what our hearts long for, and see that God has been with us each moment and step of the journey.

JAMIE C. MARTIN, AUTHOR OF INTROVERTED MOM: YOUR GUIDE TO MORE CALM, LESS GUILT, AND QUIET JOY

I have read and admired Kara Lawlers writing for years, but she takes it to a whole new level in Everywhere Holy. Lawlers words are both thought-provoking and soul-quenching. Her eloquent illustrations of finding the divine in the every day leads readers on a quest to be inspired and awestruck by their own journeys. I didnt want to put this book down! Everywhere Holy will be a blessing to all those who read it.

ASHLEY WILLIS, AUTHOR OF THE NAKED MARRIAGE

Everywhere Holy is the tangible reminder that we were created to look for God in all the places. So often, we get caught up in this busy life that we forget to stop and look for his presence, experience his creation, and remember that he longs to be with us in the simple and mundane. Karas beautiful craft of storytelling brought me to so many intimate moments of her life and compelled me to look for God in my own, so that I, too, could live a life saturated in his holiness.

LAUREN EBERSPACHER, AUTHOR OF MIDNIGHT LULLABIES AND THE FROM BLACKTOP TO DIRT ROAD BLOG

In a world of confusion and disarray, Everywhere Holy offers a space of refuge and recovery for the weary soul. Kara calls us deeper into the beauty of a Father who abundantly surrounds us. With beautiful storytelling, we begin to uncover the wonder of what we so often miss.

KELLY BALARIE, SPEAKER, BLOGGER AT PURPOSEFUL FAITH, AND AUTHOR OF FEAR FIGHTING AND BATTLE READY

To open Everywhere Holy is to enter a world of quiet wonder, shimmering beauty, and deep growth. Kara Lawler invites us to see the ordinarywork, family, home, naturewith fresh eyes, eager to grasp the holy waiting in every moment. This book is a gift of gratitude and grace.

LAURA KELLY FANUCCI, AUTHOR OF EVERYDAYSACRAMENT: THE MESSY GRACE OF PARENTING

In Everywhere Holy, Karas writing is more poetic and her graceful notes on the pages come out more like a melody than words. Her love of language and seeing things differently has shifted my perspective to notice. And the noticings are the notes that continue to draw me in, story after story in this book. You have just been given the gift of all giftsto sit and listen while Kara shares words that flow like songs that will tune your heart for more. The way Kara brings her children into the life she shares with us in these pages is how I want to draw my children close as we see God together. Kara reminds us to find holiness right here, right now. And holy can be everywhere we look for it if we grab hold of it and dont let it out of our sight. This book will give you the awe-filled path to find it.

BARENTING DANIEL, LITERARY AGENT AND AUTHOR OF MENDED: RESTORING THEHEARTS OF MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS

To be human is to be ever searching for the antidote to our loneliness, the fulfillment of our yearnings, and the satiation of hungers we often dont even fully understand. In this beautifully written book, Kara Lawler takes us each by the hand and teaches us how to find God in every moment and place and in doing so, leads us tenderly to the only stream that will ever quench our thirst.

HALLIE LORD, SIRIUSXM RADIO HOST AND AUTHOR OF ON THE OTHER SIDE OF FEAR

2019 by Kara Lawler

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Epub Edition September 2019 9781400211647

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