This is your battle – how can you fight it and win?
It’s a question you’ve heard, or perhaps even asked yourself. Where is God in the midst of this? In the battle for your joy, your marriage, your finances, your health, an emptiness creeps in. Where is the peace you promised, God?
Bo Stern has been there – and is still there. Yet in studying the battles in Scripture, she came to a startling conclusion: God is using these fierce fights in our lives for an astonishing purpose.
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Hi Bo!
Pam B. is a dear friend of mine and over the years I have heard many wonderful things about you, her best friend Bo and your talent of prose. I enjoy the banter between the two of you on FB as well.
It will be a pleasure to read your book when it hits the marketplace. There are so many that I know can benefit from your story. Get ready. It’s going to be huge!
God bless and Merry Christmas!
R. Wilson
Aw, Ronette – hello! So good to have you stop by. Pam does, indeed, have the dubious honor of bff status for nearly 30 years – she’s not getting out of it any time soon.
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Responding on this blog as well as your regular blog,
so again I say Chocolate Coconut….can’t wait to get this book on my kindle!
recieved your book today on my kindle, already read the first chapter and I am hooked.
Got my book yesterday as promised, in spite of getting a delay notice! Into the first and second chapter I am already seeing the difficult work you had to do daily to set yourself aside and allow God to speak through and around you and your circumstances, while at the same time offering your circumstances up for His glory. Amazing Bo, that you faced this battle! Not just the ALS battle (we didn’t have much choice about that!), but the battle of selflessness you undertook in order to write His words. Thank you so much for sharing this work.
I got your book today for free for my Kindle. I finished it in almost one sitting. I then went online and ordered four copies. One for me to have to write in and three to give away. Chances are, I will be buying more to give out. This book, well I have no words to tell you how much it has affected my walk. I will probably never meet you this side of heaven, but I want to thank you for writing it. Thank you for sharing your battle and most of all, thank you for teaching me how I can get through the struggles I face. Thank you for making my life better. May the Lord, bless and keep you and give you the desires of your heart.
Thanks so much, Karen!
Bo, your sister Lila gave me a copy of your book. I am excited to read it and perhaps do your Bible study too. I have been praying for your family and your husband’s healing. In your photo, I can surely see family resemblance.
God bless you always, Linda
Bo, I have been reading your book on kindle (thanks for the free copy), and it is powerful. I have MS and work as a counselor part-time still. I wrote a workbook on grief and disability, and am so blessed by your writing and attitude. I just want to thank you for placing your lives on the altar before the Lord for His loving purposes. I hope to meet you someday. God’s treasures are indeed present in the battlefield.
Love in Christ,
Sue
Thank you, Sue, and bless you as you find the beauty in the battles you face.
Is there a bible study companion that I can get or does the book have study guide questions in it?
Mimi – yes! The book has study questions in it!
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Bo, I was sucked in ~ the first words and paragraphs in your book are so identifiable and compelling! WOW! Thank you so much for teaching us about finding beauty in our suffering. Arlen and I love you and are in awe of this ministry that God has entrusted to you! Your family is in our prayers, dear cousin!
Thank you so much, Dani. I am beyond blessed that you would read my book and by your encouraging words. I would so love to see you sometime soon – we’ll keep hoping Idaho moves a little closer to Oregon.
Bo, its hard to express the impact your book has had on me. I just want to thank you for being obedient to write it to glorify God. Leora gave us a copy as a gift and I just finished it. I will be reading it again and ordered copies for both my daughters. Your family is in our prayers! Please know we love you all.
Oh, you Gingriches are just blessing my heart so much! Thank you a million for the kind words – I’d sure love to see you all soon, but I don’t know if the reunion will work for us this year. Know that we’re thinking of you and so grateful for family.
After having our world turn upside down I came across your book. Thanks for the reminders and being faithful to write what you have learned. I gave your book and blog a plug in a blog. I hope it is okay. If not, let me know and I will remove it.
Thank you, Barbara. Plugging is always okay!
I read your blog and you’re a gifted writer. I am praying that you will find beauty in your battle.
Bo,
There you are on the west coast living a parallel life to my own here on the east coast! It was October 2011, when our worst fear was confirmed. At the finish of my husband’s second EMG, the poor neurologist struggled to give the dreaded diagnosis. Anything but ALS would have been easier. I looked right at that doctor, and since swallowing had began to be a struggle back in March, I told him to just say it that we weren’t surprised by this; after all, this was round two of trying to figure out what was wrong with my strapping strong military officer husband. The drive home was excruciating! We’d met at the lab so we made our way through Friday evening rush hour alone with our own thoughts and prayers. I called my parents.
The initial shock of the battle filled those first couple of days with fear and sadness and a desperate turning of our faces to God for strength and comfort. His presence in this struggle remains the sustaining force that keeps us living each and every day to the fullest. We have learned and are learning lessons beyond anything we could have ever asked or imagined. God is truly good ALL the time.
Then this week, I found your book. (I get a daily digest from Gospel Ebooks which I occasionally download to my iPad.) I wanted to read before bed so I pulled up your book. As I began to read it, I could only think of how I could have written this book! I knew exactly what was coming next from the EMG even down to how Joseph’s faithfulness has been used by God to remind you of His sovereignty! I’ve only read two chapters in your book and decided I MUST find you and write to you!
It’s really amazing how similar our paths are and how cool is it that God has used some of the same scriptures to teach us His lessons in the midst of these journeys. I just had to share my excitement with you!
Praising God for you and His amazing provisions,
Barbara Long
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My daughter and I are collaborating on an epic name for our battle with ALS and we’re anxious to answer the questions at the end of each chapter…thanks for the therapy!
Barbara – oh goodness, your message was water to my soul! It’s so good to meet a fellow ALS warrior. I’m going to send you an email, sister!
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Dear Bo,
to be the ambassador of your “country” . I have been looking for my “fellow country(wo)men” but I find I need a better strategy to be successful. Presently I am preparing a blog just to create an awareness of ALS as there is practically no information of it in Indonesian language. I have studied a rather extensive bibliography to help me with the more “technical” material, yet I will share it as a patient, not an expert on ALS. So this will be a combination of personal experience and published references. I am a very private person, so this is a huge challenge for me. Any advice from you would be really appreciated. In the meantime I will see to it that I get a hold of your book.
I pray that you and your loved ones are always in the care and comfort of God’s love.
I just came across your wonderful website. Thank you for being an extension of God’s hand to all of us. Your words are beautiful reminder transcendental aspect of God which at the same time lends lights in each of us while we go about our even most mundane parts of life.
Thank you.
I am 48 y/o Indonesian and was diagnosed with ALS 3 years ago and should like to appoint myself
Thank you so much.
May God’s love sustain you and your family.
nana
My dearest Bo,
You know I love your book. I’ve read it and said it, however, I have decided to read it a second time differently. I am reading one chapter at a time and mulling it over and over. Pondering the pondering questions and practicing the practical suggestions. WOW, what a great mind shift. It will take lots of practice but soooo worth it.
Thank you for sharing honestly and passionately.
Love you,
Ginny