Big Love: the practice of loving beyond your limits

Big Love is a memoir by Kara Tippetts, a Christian wife and mother of four who was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer while raising her young children. Writing from her own experience, she reflects on how to love people fully when life is fragile and limited.

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Her book looks at the everyday practice of love within family, friendship and faith, and at what it means to rely on God when the future is uncertain. Tippetts draws on her writing and her honest accounts of pain, fear and gratitude. Readers who come for its theology will find it grounded in ordinary days: marriage, parenting, friendships and the small acts that make up a life. It is less a manual than a companion for anyone facing loss or simply trying to love better.

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