Tear-Watered Blooms: A Story of Learning the Gift of Dependence through Suffering

No one likes to suffer. It hurts. We all suffer, though, in one form or another, at some time or another. What is God’s heart towards his children as they suffer? Does God care like a loving earthly father would for his suffering children? If God loves his children, why would he allow them to go through pain in the first place? These questions are all too common—the very questions Catherine Rackley pleaded before God when she was pummeled repeatedly by multiple hardships, all starting with a cancer diagnosis at the age of twenty-five. “Is God really good?” “Does he love me?” “Is he hearing my prayers?” The hardships did not erase, but some answers did come. You are invited to walk through this vulnerable journey with Catherine where she wrestles with blood, sweat, and tears. . . . Her hope is that you will find those secret places where God led her.