Growing Up Saved: When Loving God Feels Like Losing Yourself by Kristen LaValley Theater & Musicals cookbook author and Magnolia Network

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Growing Up Saved: When Loving God Feels Like Losing Yourself by Kristen LaValley Theater & Musicals cookbook author and Magnolia NetworkWhat do you do if the faith that raised you seems to fail when you need it the most? Kristen LaValley grew up a church kid through and through. She said "the sinner's prayer" before she could write her name and spent the next few decades trying to prove she meant it; in a body that couldn't rest, with a mind she didn't yet understand, under a God she was afraid to disappoint. She learned to perform the kind of faith that got praised: one that hid pain