Hopeful Time: daily devotionals for the prisoner's wife, (Paperback)

A prisoner's wife wakes each day to losses and challenges from not having her husband home to share the simple things, the hard days, the celebrations, and the moments that life becomes with every morning. It is a unique grief. She is in many ways an everyday widow.

Hopeful Time brings light and hope into the dark season of a prison sentence for the wife left on the outside. It includes 365 devotions to encourage the wife's heart with God's all-consuming love and to guide her to a deeper familiarity-and hopefully-love of Scripture. Angela combines her own experiences, love of Scripture, and the help she has found to challenge other wives on this journey to trust God with where they are right now. Joy, peace, and even excitement for the future can exist in a wife's heart when her everyday is turned over to God. He can bring purpose and contentment from the losses. He can heal and enrich her marriage despite the grief and barriers she now faces. Diverse topics are found within the daily messages: forgiveness, intimacy, depression, communication, fear, finances, redemption, and more. Biblical principles and practical ideas from Angela's own journey are shared.