Miracles and Other Reasonable Things: A Story of Unlearning and Relearning God Book Review

I’m not sure what I thought this book was going to be. After reading Jesus Feminist I was expecting something that didn’t read so much like a memoir.

That isn’t to say it didn’t minister to me because it very much did. It just wasn’t what I was expecting. As someone who has felt hurt and rejected by the church I grew up in and struggled to find a place to home and safety since then spiritually speaking this book spoke to the biggest parts of where that rejection springs from.

In the churches I have been to there is no dialogue or words for the hard work of healing or living with a lifelong diagnosis that doesn’t have a cure or being embodied as you learn to live with said diagnosis and figuring out what you believe afterward. I felt the same way after my miscarriage and struggle with an additional diagnosis and infertility but still managing to have two miraculous babies. I don’t even want to touch on how deep the divide is inside and outside of the church for loving my fat body.

This books is different than her others, but I think it is hard to talk about the things that bring us so much sorrow without telling your personal story of how you became so well acquainted with grief and how we mended and reconciled our faith and story to each other. While not what I expected I throughly enjoyed reading this book, and look forward to reading more by Sara.