title: On Asking God Why: And Other Reflections on Trusting God in a Twisted World
author:  Elisabeth Elliot 
description: "I seek the lessons God wants to teach me, and that means that I ask why."-Elisabeth Elliot<br /><br />God does many things we do not understand. When faced with suffering, sickness, death, and confusion, most people can ask only one question: why? Elisabeth Elliot, one of the outstanding women of present-day Christianity, knows too well this feeling of uncertainty. But she also knows that God will answer.<br /><br />On Asking God Why offers honest insights into many of today's most prevalent heartaches, including cancer and death, family issues and loneliness, aging and hopelessness. Chapter by chapter, this insightful book will remind you that God invites his children to lay our questions before him because in him we will find every answer we need.<br /><br />Elisabeth Elliot is the author of more than twenty books. Her titles include Passion and Purity, The Journals of Jim Elliot, and These Strange Ashes. She and her husband, Lars Gren, live in Magnolia, Massachusetts.
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  Trusting God to Direct Her Heart
  
  
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  ###  A Christian Historical Romance Book
  
  
  
  
  
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  ##  Copyright
  
  
  © 2020 by Chloe Carley
  
  
  
  
  
  All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be copied, reproduced in
  any format, by any means, electronic or otherwise, without prior consent from
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  This is a work of fiction. All characters, names, places, and events are the
  product of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously.
  
  
  First Printing, 2020
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ##  Table of Contents
  
  
  [Trusting God to Direct Her Heart](part0000_split_000.html#_Toc46580812)
  
  
  [Copyright](part0000_split_001.html#_Toc46580813)
  
  
  [Table of Contents](part0000_split_002.html#_Toc46580814)
  
  
  [Let’s connect!](part0000_split_003.html#_Toc46580815)
  
  
  [Letter from Chloe Carley](part0000_split_004.html#_Toc46580816)
  
  
  [Blurb](part0000_split_005.html#_Toc46580817)
  
  
  [Prologue](part0000_split_0