Deeper than Tears: Promises of Comfort and Hope

By Jack Countryman and Terri Gibbs

When life hurts, nothing helps like hope. This newly designed version of the best-selling Deeper than Tears, is a gift book of hope. It is a poignant and uplifting reminder that no matter what disappointments and loss come to your corner of the world, God offers healing and help. Regardless what sorrow and heartache you feel, God knows about it and He cares for you. What better message could bring encouragement and comfort?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Release date: Sep 16, 2007
• ISBN: 9781418565749

Jack Countryman

Jack Countryman is the founder of JCountryman gift books, a division of Thomas Nelson, and is the recipient of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association's Kip Jordan Lifetime Achievement Award. Over the past 30 years, he has developed bestselling gift books such as God's Promises for Your Every Need, God's Promises for Men, God's Promises for Women, God Listens, and Red Letter Words of Jesus. Countryman's books have sold more than 27 million units. His graduation books alone have sold nearly 2 million units.

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Compiled and edited by Terri Gibbs

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Contents

PART I

TEARS

PART II

TENDERNESS

PART III

TRIALS

PART IV

TRUST

PART V

TRIUMPH

PART ONE

TEARS

Thou hast often

wiped away my tears,

restored peace

to my mourning heart.

PURITAN PRAYER

The Valley of Vision

WHEN WE HURT

What do we do when tragedy strikes? We hurt. We hurt when we have to confront the tragedy of divorce. We hurt when we have to face the tragedy that our children have W become drug addicts. We hurt when we deal with the tragedy of bankruptcy. We hurt when we get the tragic news that the tumor is malignant and the prognosis is not good. We hurt when we experience the finality of a loved one’s death.

But we also do something else—we turn to the deepest resources within us and draw upon the rudiments of our faith to sustain us.

PAUL WALKER

How to Keep Your Joy

Count your night by stars,

not shadows,

Count your life with smiles,

not tears.

ITALIAN PROVERB

A HIGHER PURPOSE

Because we live in a fallen world, life inevitably includes sorrow. When sin entered the human race, it brought death— physical death and spiritual death with all the B accompanying ramifications. Death or loss of anything we value causes grief. However, God has a higher purpose for his people, and he is faithful to use our most painful times to mature us, to draw us into closer dependence on him.