Walk alongside Grammy Award-winning artist, worship leader, and Bible study
teacher Laura Story in her continuing journey of accepting God's plan for her
life and living it out in total surrender.

Laura Story's husband, Martin, was diagnosed with a brain tumor early in their
marriage. In a moment their life plans changed drastically. After wondering about
their ability to be parents and a struggle with infertility, Laura gave birth to three
children, including twin boys, in three years' time. Then a sonogram at thirty-seven
weeks revealed an unexpected issue with their fourth child. No life is without trouble,
but when you face one challenging situation after another, your days can begin to feel
desperately hopeless. Yet God truly uses all things for our good. When offered up to
him, every circumstance can become a perfect opportunity to completely surrender
your will to his.

In I Give Up, Laura uses her story to show why surrender to God is important and
how we can go about doing it. She shares how surrendering expectations is not a
step-by-step process but a willful decision to wait on God, trusting that he and his
word are true. In this four-part study she explains

• why surrender is a good thing
• whom we surrender to
• how we surrender
• how our surrender affects the lives of others

With honesty, insight, and an artist s perspective, Leigh McLeroy illuminates the beauty and holiness of everyday life.

The Sacred Ordinary will guide you on a journey through seemingly insignificant moments and help you see evidence of the divine in your own ordinary days.

These 112 devotional essays bring ordinary places, people, moments and words to life. From a kitchen junk drawer to a sidewalk concert, from an old Bible to a box of 64 crayons, from a Broadway ballad to a handful of feathers Leigh discovers God s presence everywhere, and offers a 10-page personal retreat guide inviting you to do the same.Leigh McLeroy is the author of The Beautiful Ache and Treasured: Knowing God by the Things He Keeps. A sought-after Bible teacher and event speaker, she is also the creator of Wednesday Words, a weekly devotional with a life of its own. Leigh lives and works in Houston, Texas, and may be reached at www.leighmcleroy.com.

You ve felt it. It s the ache that whispers there s more.

When the best job, marriage or adventure doesn t fully satisfy, you feel the ache. It infuses every glimpse of beauty or wonder this world can offer and leaves you hungrier than before. It colors your disappointments and desires with equal intensity, and it should because you were made for another kind of living in another kind of world.

However the ache touches your heart, it is a good thing. It is meant to both entice and unsettle you, and draw you closer to the God who truly satisfies. In The Beautiful Ache, Leigh McLeroy s powerful writing invites you to hopefully embrace the gap between the life you know and the life you can t help longing for.

Leigh McLeroy is the author of The Sacred Ordinary and Treasured: Knowing God by the Things He Keeps. A sought-after Bible teacher and event speaker, she is also the creator of Wednesday Words, a weekly devotional with a life of its own. Leigh lives and works in Houston, Texas, and may be reached at www.leighmcleroy.com.