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Resurrection Year

Turning Broken Dreams Into New Beginnings [Paperback]

by Sheridan Voysey

Average rating of5.0from (2)reviews

Embark on a journey of restoration, healing and purpose from author and key communicator UK based Sheridan Voysey

  • Feel defeated by broken dreams?

  • You'll see how disappointment can be turned into a new start

  • This book offers you a new start, a change to recover from broken dreams

  • Author

    Sheridan Voysey

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Thomas Nelson

  • Published

    May 2013

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Resurrection Year

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Dreams are a precious gift of our imagination. They create worlds that aren’t real and beckon toward them. But our best dreams reflect our personalities. That’s why the disappointment of unfulfilled dreams leads us into dissatisfaction with ourselves, with who we are; a dissatisfaction which, if left unattended to, will destroy in the pain and bitterness of regret. But there is an alternative if you make your broken dreams your right to embark on a new journey to a future you couldn’t have imagined before.

It might be that you longed to be married but are still single, that your artistic skill has not been recognised, that a whirlwind romance has ended in heartbreak. There is a sadness that seems unfair, we feel life is meaningless and harbour anger toward the God who, apparently, has denied our requests.

For Sheridan and his wife, Merryn, their dream remained unfulfilled after ten years of expectation and disappointment. This exciting, fun, sometimes humorous, often tough account of a year spent starting again shows that you might find hope after your own broken dream too.

Sheridan Voysey shows you that there is life after the dream has died; because the God of the crucifixion is also the God of the resurrection. A greater tragedy than a broken dream is a life defined by it. This book is your first step taken in the sure anticipation of your own resurrection.

A Consolation Prize And A Sacrifice
Farewell To What Has Been
Resurrection Begins In Rome
Wrestling God On The Mountain
A Home Among The Spires
Making Love In Paris
Positively Crucified
Acknowledgements
About The Author
Notes

“Oh my goodness…” replies author Sheridan Voysey. “Writing Resurrection Year required Merryn and me to relive some very painful experiences and dashed hopes. Merryn would come home at times to find me in a very dark place indeed.

“But in another sense, there was a joy in writing this book that I’ve rarely experienced before. The book’s structure came fairly quickly and very little of the draft material was edited out. The words, paragraphs and metaphors flowed. The craft of writing is always difficult, but I felt a grace in writing this book that was unique.

“I’ve had a small team reading along as I’ve been writing. The general feedback has been that people have cried through the first two chapters, felt hope awaken in the next two chapters, then had their own new beginnings dreamed up by the end. That’s a good sign.
“ As I’ve previously mentioned, this was not the book I was expecting to write but more and more feels like the book I was meant to write. It is already proving helpful for those who have experienced their own broken dream, whether it be unwanted singleness, infertility, the loss of a loved one or the loss of a career.

My and Merryn’s prayer is that God will use Resurrection Year to catalyse a new beginning for others who need one.”

Written by one of the most experienced Christian broadcasters in Australia, now living in Oxford.

A hope-filled story about starting again after a dream has died - an emotive, poetic, and at times humorous discovery of the healing qualities of beauty, play, friendship and love.

Expectation. Expectation. Expectation. Disappointment. After ten years of tear-soaked prayers, repeatedly dashed hopes and multiple failed rounds of IVF, Sheridan Voysey and his wife come to a heart-breaking conclusion - their dream of having a child is over. Empty and confused from a decade of disappointment, they leave their jobs, pack their bags and embark on a journey in search of restoration.

Voysey chronicles their return to life. From the streets of Rome to the Basilicas of Paris, from the Alps of Switzerland to their new home in Oxford, they begin the healing process while wrestling with their doubts about God's goodness. One part spiritual memoir and one part love story, Resurrection Year is an honest, heartfelt book about recovering from broken dreams and reconciling with a God who is sometimes silent but never absent.

Specification

  • Author

    Sheridan Voysey

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Thomas Nelson

  • Published

    May 2013

  • Weight

    205g

  • Page Count

    224

  • Dimensions

    139 x 215 x 29 mm

  • ISBN

    9780849964800

  • ISBN-10

    0849964806

  • Eden Code

    4070966

More Information

  • Author/Creator: Sheridan Voysey

  • ISBN: 9780849964800

  • Publisher: Thomas Nelson

  • Release Date: May 2013

  • Weight: 205g

  • Dimensions: 139 x 215 x 29 mm

  • Eden Code: 4070966


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10 years ago

A wonderful book for anyone who's experience broken dreams

Sheridan Voysey has written a very open and honest book about the anguish experienced by him and his wife Merryn as they struggled with infertility, and as they began to take positive steps into the future, hopeful that God would give them a period of some emotional and spiritual healing - a resurrection year. Sheridan's account of their emotional turmoil, and of the spiritual confusion which resulted, is one with which anyone who has experienced suffering - or the long and drawn out death of a cherished dream - can identify. The questions Sheridan and Merryn found themselves asking are the same questions with which suffering believers in God have repeatedly grappled over the centuries. And, as so many others have found, their trust in God has ultimately deepened as a result. Sheridan makes a comment that it is not doubt that is the opposite of faith, but indifference: those who doubt are still grappling with the questions, whereas indifference doesn't bother. This is a couple who, like Jacob, have held on to God until they have experienced some blessing, even if they still don't fully understand the mysteries of how God works (and who does?). They have experienced the truth of what Paul famously says in Romans 8:28 - that when 'God works everything together for the good of those who love him', the good that is in view is explained in the next sentence: it is 'to be conformed to the image of his Son'. Sheridan Voysey is a great communicator, and his writing is fresh, vibrant and engaging. Resurrection Year is an absolute pleasure to read, for its honesty, for its life-affirming, God-oriented hope, and for his vivid, frequently witty descriptions of various stages and events in their life together. If you like a straight-through, beginning-to-end narrative, you may hesitate a little at first as Sheridan interweaves earlier events and journal entries with more recent ones. But the narrative arc of the death of their dream through to the joy of finding themselves with a fresh, unexpected one, is profoundly compelling and inspiring. Couples who have experienced infertility will particularly connect with Sheridan and Merryn's particular struggle, but anyone who has found themselves at a loss to know what God is doing, or even whether he cares, will find that much to identify with - and be deeply encouraged by.

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11 years ago

A must read for anyone who has had a broken dream!

I love to read, and have read many books. Few times have I ever read a book as vulnerably honest as this one, whilst being beautifully written. I cried and I laughed...and I marvelled at the strength of this couple. I've been a Christian for 15 years (on Thursday) and have experienced my share of broken dreams...somewhere along the way in reading this book, and hope and healing sprung in a weary heart. Sheridan has managed to fulfil a very tall order - to tell their story in a compelling, powerfully honest way that I have no doubt will bring healing to hurting couples who struggle with infertility, whilst somehow making it accessible to anyone who has had a broken dream - and lets be honest most of us can identify with that. Sheridan and Merryn, thank you for being so very brave and sharing your story so vulnerably. Thank you for inviting us into your lives and hearts and sharing your pain, your joys...your realness. Sheridan, you have stewarded your gift well, and I can't wait to hear the stories of hope and healing that will come out of it. And....lastly, if you are thinking about buying the book...DO! You won't be sorry. In fact pick up a couple of books, I can guarantee you will know at least two people you will want to give the book to after reading the story. Now...I think I have a resurrection year to go and plan. It needs to be fun. It needs to be risky. I think I have a few ideas, but it won't have a Rupette in it, I'll leave that to the Voysey's!

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