Not of My Choosing: Embracing God's Hidden Purpose for the Suffering and Adversity We Endure

by Terry Wardle, Peter Burgo (Editor)

Have you found yourself on a journey you did not choose? Maybe a sudden season of confusion … adversity … loss … suffering. Has the experience raised questions you are afraid to admit, even to yourself? Questions about God’s love for you … the truth of his promises … the nature of grace? You are not alone.

Questions like these have been asked across the span of human time, arising whenever the path makes a sudden turn toward the unwelcome and unwanted.

Not of My Choosing is a vulnerable look at the common experience of difficulty and loss. With at times uncensored honesty, Terry Wardle shares details of an unanticipated personal trial, how he wrestled with doubt, disappointment, even despair, and then by the power of God’s grace emerged into a place of hope.

Terry Wardle, founder of Healing Care Ministries, has authored numerous books, including recent publications Some Kind of Crazy (2019) and Broken to Beloved (2021). He is the podcaster of Slingstones in which he discusses insights for the Christian journey.

218 pages, Paperback

Published October 2, 2025