All the Hard Things: 50 Days Through the Valley

by Sarah Freymuth

You May Be Hurting, but You Won’t Be Left Behind

Maybe you received news you never expected to hear. Maybe you’re clinging to a wild hope that seems to grow smaller with each passing year. Or maybe you’ve navigated one impossibly hard season after another, and you don’t know how much longer you can endure.

There are no instructions for times like these. No platitudes or forced positivity will do. Instead, All the Hard Things is a devotional offering 50 days of gentle affirmations, scriptural insights, and uplifting reminders of God’s intimate goodness for anyone experiencing a season of difficulty.

Regardless of what you are facing, Sarah Freymuth invites you to journey alongside her through each painful circumstance and search for God’s presence through it all. The way out of the valley is through the good guidance of our Shepherd, who gives us what we need and leads us by His love. These devotions will help you cling to God’s character each day and count on His goodness and faithfulness each step of the way.

256 pages, Hardcover

Expected publication February 3, 2026

Reviews

[Kendra Broekhuis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sarah Freymuth’s All The Hard Things is a beautifully honest and grounding read for those in the midst of pain, longing, or life’s anxieties. Each of the 50 reflections shares hard-fought wisdom and encouragement for people going through spiritual discontent, inner battles, situational struggles, relational strain, and even good hard things. This makes it a book you can underline and go back to again and again. I especially love the resources listed after each day, including Scripture that speaks into your pain, prayers for when you can’t find the words, songs for a grounding soundtrack in your day, and reflection questions.

I love this book! It's not about platitudes or forced positivity, but an invitation to search for God’s presence through all the hard things.

[Keren Dibbens-Wyatt · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one of those deeply valuable devotionals that doesn’t skirt around the difficult stuff. Looking at the troubles of life largely through her own experience with chronic anxiety, Sarah Freymuth creates a lens of compassion that helps others who are struggling. Spiritual trials and circumstantial difficulties are described lyrically, with deftly poetic expression and helpful connections to nature and Scripture. If you want an empathetic guide through the valleys and rapids of the Christian life, I recommend Sarah’s wise and kind counsel in this book.

The author kindly sent me an ARC for review purposes in return for an honest review.