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Lisa Appelo

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Lisa Appelo is a speaker, writer, and Bible teacher who inspires women to cultivate faith in life’s storms. She’s a Florida girl born and raised and followed her passion for writing into law, where she worked as a litigator for many years. As her family grew to include seven children, Lisa retired from law to raise and home educate her children.

Ten years ago, Lisa went to bed happily married to her high school sweetheart and woke up a widow and single mom. As she navigated grief and shepherded her children through their own grief, God reshaped all that seemed shattered. Lisa is passionate about rich Bible study and has taught a weekly ladies Bible class at her home church for many years. She launched a local ministry for widows in Jacksonv ...more

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Will I Find Joy Again after Loss and Grief?

Will I find joy again after loss and grief? Will I ever smile again or feel that warm rush of happiness bubble up like warm sunshine?

These questions haunted me in fresh grief after Dan suddenly died. I was convinced that I’d never be truly happy again. I would try to make the best of it for my children, I thought. They had already lost one parent and they couldn’t lose another because I quietly q

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Surrendering Certainty: Hearing God Today by Letting Go of Tomorrow

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What if the seasons of our greatest adversity were places of our deepest growth with God? In Draw Near, Hadassah Treu shows how the pain of a traumatic childhood, infertility, rejection, and becoming a widow were catalysts to help her find hope and h ...more
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“Beloved Christian reader, in matters of grace you need a daily supply. . . . Never go hungry while the daily bread of grace is on the table of mercy. C. H. Spurgeon”
― Lisa Appelo, Life Can Be Good Again: Putting Your World Back Together After It All Falls Apart

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