She's In The City By Nasheville

After the past few years, we’ve all had, facing the prolonged effects of the pandemic and what feels like constant social unrest, our friend Lisa Whittle’s new (and 8th!) book could not come at a more welcomed time. Released in September of 2021, The Hard Good: Showing Up For God to Work in You When You Want to Shut Down addresses, with profound wisdom and without platitude, the struggles of living in a painful world where hard things just keep on happening. When Lisa’s father died in 2017, she says his passing “was the catalyst to writing [the book], but in so many ways I feel like it’s just been an account of the ongoing journey of my life.” Each chapter recounts a hardship she’s walked through and her resilient work to discover God’s nuggets of good, even in very not good seasons. She never shies away from what real heartbreak looks like, but she also confidently and consistently lets Scripture have the last word in whatever she faces.  Here are a few topics we hit on in our conversation: Redefining good