Hidden Joy in a Dark Corner: The Transforming Power of God's Story

by Wendy Blight

Publisher:

Moody Publishers

, 2009

Overview

One week after Wendy Blight’s college graduation, she walked into her apartment to find a masked man holding a knife and waiting for her at the top of the stairs. The man spent an hour physically and sexually assaulting Wendy, leaving her changed forever. After this terrifying experience, she lived for years cocooned in a prison of fear, despair, and hopelessness. Finally, after years of searching and believing she had nowhere else to turn, she fell on her knees before God and poured out her tears, anger, and questions to Him. Wendy’s story is one of transformation from trauma to rebirth through the power of the Word of God.

Through Hidden Joy in a Dark Corner, the reader will experience hope and the encouragement necessary to press forward to healing and restoration.

From the Back Cover

I hesitated then spoke three words I never thought I would utter—“I was raped.”

Wendy’s is an intensely personal story, compellingly told.

She doesn’t dodge the tough questions: Where was God when I was attacked? Can I ever feel safe? Will I ever just be normal again?

 She set out to search for answers. When she began, she assumed the Bible was little more than a storybook. But she finally became convinced that this Book speaks the voice of God Himself.

Wendy tells candidly of how she would often replay to herself fears, doubts, anxieties, accusations—and how she learned to capture those thoughts and replace them with assurance, wisdom, encouragement, hope, truth.

Your story is different than Wendy’s. But you too can come to know, as she has, that “no circumstance is too difficult, no choice too reprehensible, and no pain too deep for God to redeem.”

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Contents

Introduction
Chapter One - Valley of Weeping

Chapter Two - Why Did God Allow this?

Chapter Three - God’s Story Unfolds

Chapter Four - Treasures in Darkness

Chapter Five - On the Mat

Chapter Six - Learning to Forgive

Chapter Seven - Surrendering Your Strongholds

Chapter Eight - Quiet Time

Chapter Nine - Prayer

Chapter 10 - Abiding in Christ

Chapter Eleven - A New Song

Interactive Study Guide

Praise for Hidden Joy in a Dark Corner

Once a victim of Satan’s plot to destroy her wounded and scarred soul, Wendy Blight has become a product of God’s transforming grace, a testimony to the power of His Word. As she shares her story, she reminds us that our stories are enveloped by God’s greater story and out wrounds are healed as we move from victims of Satan, self, and others, to victors in Christ. Wendy’s journey from fear to faith will help every traveler who has grappled with issues of trust and is not content to settle for simple answers to difficult questions.
-Nancy Leigh DeMoss, author and Revive Our Hearts radio host

Once a victim of Satan’s plot to destroy her wounded and scarred soul, Wendy Blight has become a product of God’s transforming grace, a testimony to the power of His Word. As she shares her story, she reminds us that our stories are enveloped by God’s greater story and out wrounds are healed as we move from victims of Satan, self, and others, to victors in Christ. Wendy’s journey from fear to faith will help every traveler who has grappled with issues of trust and is not content to settle for simple answers to difficult questions.
-Nancy Leigh DeMoss, author and Revive Our Hearts radio host

Product Details

• Title : Hidden Joy in a Dark Corner: The Transforming Power of God's Story
• Author: Blight, Wendy
• Publisher: Moody Publishers
• Publication Date: 2009
• ISBN: 9781575673189

About Wendy Blight

Wendy Blight is a wife, mother, author, Bible teacher, and speaker with Proverbs 31 Ministries. Her desire is for every woman to know with confidence she can tackle any problem life presents through God's Word. Her Bible study curriculum equips women to identify Scriptures that address pressing issues in her life, understand how those Scriptures apply, and personalize and pray those Scriptures to bring hope, healing, and transformation to her life.