Jackina (pronounced with a long "i" to rhyme with China) Stark recently retired from teaching English at Ozark Christian College to spend more time writing and traveling. During the twenty-eight years she taught at OCC, she traveled nationally and internationally to speak and teach, and wrote many articles for denominational magazines. She has been married to her husband, Tony, for forty-two years. They live in Carl Junction, Missouri, and have two daughters and six grandchildren.

Audrey Eaton awakes at three in the morning and gets up to retrieve her husband, Tom, from the recliner where he has fallen asleep watching a ball game. But when she enters the living room and looks at his gentle face in the soft lamp light, she knows their time together is over. Grief attacks her until all she can think about is how much she wants her old life back. Determined to find healing, she embarks on a journey to the one place Tom and she always intended to visit but never did. Along the way, she discovers, through shared experiences with friends old and new, the meaning of the "tender graces" God provides each and every day.

A woman's journey of healing introduces her to unexpected people and places in this beautifully written contemporary debut novel.

Stark, Jackina

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Chapter Twenty-Four

Chapter Twenty-Five

Chapter Twenty-Six

Acknowledgements

About the Author

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Audrey Eaton awakes at three in the morning and gets up to retrieve her husband, Tom, from the recliner where he has fallen asleep watching a ball game. But when she enters the living room and looks at his gentle face in the soft lamp light, she knows their time together is over. Grief attacks her until all she can think about is how much she wants her old life back. Determined to find healing, she embarks on a journey to the one place Tom and she always intended to visit but never did. Along the way, she discovers, through shared experiences with friends old and new, the meaning of the"tender graces" God provides each and every day.

A novel that tells how a woman's journey of healing introduces her to unexpected people and places.

Jackina Stark recently retired from teaching at Ozark Christian College to spend more time writing and traveling. During the twenty-eight years she taught at OCC, she traveled nationally and internationally to speak and teach, and wrote many articles for denominational magazines. She has been married to her husband, Tony, for forty-two years. They live in Carl Junction, Missouri, and have two daughters and six grandchildren.

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It was good to read a novel written by a Christian author which wasn't pretending to be anything other than a Christian novel. By this I mean there were no hidden agendas - no wrapping a standard novel up in Christian packaging by excluding the bad language, violence and sexual input. It is a gentle novel about a woman going through the grief and loss after the sudden death of her husband. The author has an appreciation of written English and loves poetry so the book has a flow about it and that enables us to take the journey with the main character. She goes on a long road trip to endeavour to start living again and the story covers the places she visits and the people she meets; it interweaves this with the things she learns from the gospel of John that she reads from her husband's Bible on her journey. It is aptly titled explaining God's tender grace in abundance for a wounded soul.

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It is a gentle novel about a woman going through the grief and loss after the sudden death of her husband. The author has an appreciation of written English and loves poetry so the book has a flow about it and that enables us to take the journey with the main character. She goes on a long road trip to endeavour to start living again and the story covers the places she visits and the people she meets; it interweaves this with the things she learns from the gospel of John that she reads from her husbands Bible on her journey. It is aptly titled explaining God’s tender grace in abundance for a wounded soul.

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