Gozo desafiante: Aferrarse a la esperanza, la belleza y la vida en un mundo que sufre

by Stasi Eldredge

Estamos llamados a "estar siempre gozosos" (1 Ts. 5.16). �Qu� significa esto, y c�mo puede ser posible?

Todos gastamos mucha energ�a buscando la felicidad, pero no somos capaces de aferrarnos a ella. Cosas suceden en la vida real, y nuestras circunstancias nos llevan por un viaje de altas y bajas. Entonces, el llamado que nos hace la Biblia a estar siempre gozosos parece una locura, y fuera de alcance. Pero no tiene que ser as�.

Debemos tener gozo, un gozo tan grande que desaf�e a este mundo ca�do. Este gozo no es simplemente felicidad con esteroides; es la seguridad inquebrantable de que el dolor y la p�rdida no tienen la �ltima palabra. Es la firme determinaci�n que se manifiesta en cualquier situaci�n para interpretar tanto la bondad como el dolor a la luz de las Escrituras.

En Gozo desafiante, Stasi Eldredge, con valent�a, sinceridad y vulnerabilidad nos invita a un lugar m�s all� de la tristeza o la felicidad. Nos muestra c�mo mantener una postura desafiante que no niega ni resta importancia a nuestro dolor, sino que se atreve a vivir con una esperanza inquebrantable.

256 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 23, 2018

About the author

Stasi Eldredge loves writing and speaking to women about the goodness of God. She spent her childhood years in Prairie Village, Kansas, for which she is truly grateful. Her family moved to southern California back in the really bad smog days when she was ten. She loved theater and acting and took a partiality to her now-husband, John, when they were friends in high school. Stasi earned her bachelor's degree in Sociology from San Diego State University, which she attended primarily because it was close to the beach. She became a Christian her junior year in college and dove into the ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ. After graduating, Stasi joined Youth for Christ, heading up a ministry to pregnant teenagers and teen mothers. She has been active in ministry ever since, including theater ministry, crisis pregnancy center ministry, women’s ministry, and children’s ministry. The Eldredge family moved to Colorado in 1991.

Stasi loves the joy and freedom that comes from knowing the passionate, stunning love of Jesus Christ and lives to see others come to know him more deeply. She loves worship music, time to bake, celebrating life, getting lost in a good novel, baths, walking in the woods, hearing her sons' laughter, the sound of wind in the trees, a good cup of coffee, the smell of the earth after it rains, a powerful turn of phrase, animals in the wild, gardens, freshly mowed grass, family traditions, cherished friendships, the Tetons, rivers, mountain lakes, the grace and beauty of horses, the affection of her dog, and most of all, her family and her God.