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"Why trust a God who disappoints? ""Lori Wood came to my clinic...with her husband pushing her in a wheelchair. I had a sinking feeling when I met her that she would not survive, despite all my years of training as a heart failure and transplant cardiologist,"" says Eileen Hsich, MD, Medical Director Heart Transplant, Cleveland Clinic. A serious medical diagnosis took Lori Ann Wood on a faith detour she never saw coming. As a lifelong believer, she felt profound disappointment in the God she thought she knew. Divine Detour is the result of Lori Ann's risky decision to embrace difficult questions. Is this life all there is? Is God always good? Is God's plan enough? Come along on a forty-day journey deep into the heart of a God who often doesn't behave as we'd like. You'll learn to embrace the three questions every life encounters so your faith can thrive along your own inevitable detour. Foreword by Eileen Hsich, MD, Medical Director Heart Transplant, Cleveland Clinic. Buy Divine Detour today and discover the answers you're seeking."

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"""I've worked with many promising writers over the years who have gone on to accomplish great feats, but few have been as talented, hardworking, and endearing as Lori Ann Wood. She writes with the kind of authenticity that simply cannot be taught, and her work is punctuated by haunting turns of phrases with the power to rattle teeth. I cannot wait to get my hands on Divine Detour and recommend it to the many, many people I know in need of its message."" - Jonathan Merritt, contributing writer for The Atlantic and author of Learning to Speak God from Scratch ""Lori Ann Wood courageously shares her journey with vulnerability and grace. She walks boldly into the unknown and in the process teaches us to do the same. This is a gift to anyone struggling with uncertainty, health issues, or trying to find footing in the world."" - Margaret Feinberg, author of More Power to You ""Tucked within these pages are an exploration of three very important questions we all ask when our lives are interrupted by an unwanted event, or when things are going the opposite of what we hoped. I loved the depth of encouragement, hope, and words found within Lori's book, Divine Detour."" - Suzanne (Suzie) Eller, bestselling author of twelve books, co-host of More Than Small Talk podcast, and host of Prayer Starters podcast ""There is no self-pity here. Only humility, joy, and palpable peace. Though I am not walking the same life road as Lori Ann, I long to follow her as she follows Jesus. Her heart, and this lovely book, are graceful, gentle, and agelessly beautiful."" - Hannah C. Hall, author of Thirsty: 12 Weeks of Drinking Deeply from God's Word ""Lori's Divine Detour is an invitation not just to women with heart disease but to every person to lean into their faith, poke and prod it and question it when faced with the unexpected and unwanted detours in life. You will enjoy Lori's forty beautiful essays that merge to a glorious mosaic of inspiration, acceptance, and love."" - Celina E. Gorre, Chief Executive Officer of WomenHeart ""As a part of her medical team, I knew Lori was brave and had a deep faith. But this book blew me away. God's triumphant goodness and unwavering faithfulness are on full display as she walks us through her difficult diagnosis and the uncertainty of life. I recommend this to all who, like me, struggle with doubt, worry, and control."" - Heather Rothrock Heltemes, APRN-CNP, Cardiology ""Wilderness is not only a kind of topography, it is a kind of experience, one characterized by hardship, disorientation, and unknowing. In Divine Detour, Lori Ann Wood guides us through the wilderness landscapes of faith as a seasoned traveler. Similar to Joseph's life taking an unwanted and unexpected detour to Egypt removing all support systems of family, familiar territory and daily routine, Lori Ann transparently recounts her feelings of abandonment, disappointment, grief, vulnerability, and fear as she journeys with a life-threatening disease that brought the primary questions of existence and meaning to her heart's inmost chamber. Divine Detour is a supportive companion for all whose hearts have the courage to ask aloud the ultimate life questions we all carry silently, fearfully, and unnecessarily alone."" - Ross Cochran, Ph.D., Professor of Practical Theology and author of Not Off Limits: Questions You Wish You Could Ask at Church"

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