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The women from Sensible Shoes are taking their next steps in the spiritual formation journey. But each of them is finding roadblocks along the way. Meg, a widow and recent empty nester, is off to see her daughter in London. But what does hope look like when nothing goes as planned?

Wren Crawford is a social worker who finds herself overwhelmed with the troubles of the world. Her lifelong struggles with anxiety and depression are starting to overcome her. She finds solace in art, spiritual formation, and pastoral care along with traditional therapeutic interventions. But a complicated relationship from her past also threatens to undo her progress. 

Sharon Garlough Brown tells the moving story of four strangers as they reluctantly arrive at a retreat center and find themselves drawn out of their separate stories of isolation and struggle and into a collective journey of spiritual practice, mutual support, and personal revelation.

In this sequel to Shades of Light, Katherine Rhodes, the beloved director of the New Hope Retreat Center, finds her own grief tapped by Wren Crawford's struggles with depression and loss. Through a series of letters to Wren, Katherine reflects on the meaning of Christ's suffering and shares her own story of finding hope. How does one begin to live again under the crushing weight of grief? And how can healing come when there's so much left unresolved?

Die Sozialarbeiterin Wren Crawford hat seit ihrer Jugend mit Depressionen und einer Angststörung zu kämpfen. Nach einem erneuten Zusammenbruch findet sie Trost und neue Hoffnung in der Kunst von Vincent van Gogh sowie mithilfe von geistlichen Übungen, christlicher Seelsorge und Gesprächen mit ihrer Therapeutin. Doch dann droht eine schwierige Freundschaft aus der Vergangenheit ihre Fortschritte zunichte zu machen.