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© 2019 by Sharon Garlough Brown

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InterVarsity Press^® is the book-publishing division of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA^®, a movement of students and faculty active on campus at hundreds of universities, colleges, and schools of nursing in the United States of America, and a member movement of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. For information about local and regional activities, visit intervarsity.org.

Scripture quotations, unless otherwise noted, are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

This is a work of fiction. People, places, events, and situations are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to events, locales, or actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Sharon Garlough Brown, Awakened, used courtesy of the author.

Sharon Garlough Brown and Elizabeth Ivy Hawkins, Lament (sorrow collage), used courtesy of the artists. “Window Light” and “Fallen Heart Leaf” photos used courtesy of Therese Kay Photography.

Bette Lynn Dickinson, “It Is Finished,” panel of the work What Breathes Beneath Our Story, used courtesy of Bette Lynn Dickinson. www.bettedickinson.life

Elizabeth Ivy Hawkins, Pressed, Handed Over, From the Ashes, Remember Me, Hope Rises, and plate and cup charcoal sketch, used by permission. www.elizabethivy.com

Cover design and image composite: David Fassett
Interior design: Jeanna Wiggins
Cover images: hand-painted cross: © Olga Kashurina / iStock / Getty Images Plus
 pastel shades on textured surface: © andipantz / iStock / Getty Images Plus
 red paint brush stroke: © R.Tsubin / Moment Collection / Getty Images
 painted texture: © Sergey Ryumin / Moment Collection / Getty Images

ISBN 978-0-8308-4832-4 (digital)

ISBN 978-0-8308-4670-2 (print)

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