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When his oldest son was diagnosed with severe autism, pastor Jason Hague found himself trapped, stuck between perpetual sadness and a lower, safer kind of hope. This is the common struggle for those of us walking through the Land of Unanswered Prayer. Life doesn't look the way we expected, so we seek to protect ourselves from further disappointment.
But God has a third path for us, beyond sadness or resignation: the way of aching joy. Christ himself is with us here, beckoning us toward the treasures hidden in the darkness.
Aching Joy is an honest psalm of hope for those walking between pain and promise: the aching of a broken world and the beauty of a loving God. In this place, rather than trying to dodge the pain, we choose to feel it all-and to see where Jesus is in the midst of struggle. And because we make that choice, we feel all the good that comes with it, too.
This is Jason's story. This is your story. Come, find your joy within the aching.
But God has a third path for us, beyond sadness or resignation: the way of aching joy. Christ himself is with us here, beckoning us toward the treasures hidden in the darkness.
Aching Joy is an honest psalm of hope for those walking between pain and promise: the aching of a broken world and the beauty of a loving God. In this place, rather than trying to dodge the pain, we choose to feel it all-and to see where Jesus is in the midst of struggle. And because we make that choice, we feel all the good that comes with it, too.
This is Jason's story. This is your story. Come, find your joy within the aching.
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"The best memoirs tell a story that is specific and individual and yet somehow transcends particularity. Aching Joy tells a story of one man's pain and growth in the years following his son's diagnosis with autism, and at the same time, this book invites me into reflection about my own experience with pain, denial, hope, and healing. As this father begins to let go of fear and open his heart up to trust, I, too, am invited to explore all the ways I have shut myself off from the ache, and the joy, of full life."
Amy Julia Becker, author of White Picket Fences
"Honest, wise, beautiful. After I lost a dear friend, Aching Joy was precisely what I needed to read. Jason Hague's honesty about his own failings, doubts, and questions about God in a painful season of his family's life made me feel like I wasn't alone. His insights, wisdom, and sensitivity to God gave me hope. I cried multiple times reading this book. Highly recommended."
Matt Mikalatos, author of Good News for a Change and Sky Lantern
"Sometimes we beg God for an answer to prayer and don't receive it. Then what? Hague writes with raw honesty about his son's autism diagnosis-and the prayer requests denied. I don't know the source of your begging (mine was different from Hague's), but you'll grow through the universal wisdom found in this book, which helps readers see that God is still in the story-and that our circumstances don't get to decide our levels of joy. A new kind of joy-an aching joy-awaits."
September Vaudrey, author of Colors of Goodbye