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Soar Unafraid: Learning to Trust No Matter What

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This book is great for anyone who has any kind of chronic illness or wants to grow in their faith. I have bi-polar disorder and Jo's words were very encouraging. I read how she trusted God through her MS attacks. It is well worth your time and money to experience this journey with Jo
Enjoy,
Teryl

This book testifies to the grace of God that works powerfully in a life of a woman who is diagnosed with MS and how it does not make her bitter but makes her thankful and even more hopeful in God who saves us from our sins. I recommend this book for anyone who wants to know how the grace of God works and gives life and makes people a blessing to others. Truly, in him we will Soar like eagles. Jo, thanks for writing such a wonderful book for us to read. I would say God's grace has truly carried Jo on eagles wings." Crossing the Red Sea

Many years ago, I met Jo at a church retreat where she was an inspirational speaker and shared her love of the Lord through her singing. I was impressed with her deep faith and obrious joy in spite of the painful trials she had endured. There were times through the years that I wondered how she was and when I, myself was diagnosed with MS, two years ago, my curiosity about how she was grew. A good friend, living in the same county as Jo, clipped a newspaper article about Jo, thinking it might be of interest to me. I was so surprised and delighted to know that Jo had written a book. I promptly ordered it and read it. It was as I knew it would be-filled with honesty, love, pain and joy. Jo is able to capture with words raw emotions that both captivate and encourage the reader. Thank you Jo for being the example to all of us of what it means to "soar unafraid."
Paula Boyd, Lemon Grove CA

How encouraging, uplifting and challenging for me, the mother of a precious daughter diagnosed with MS at age 26, to read Jo Franz story, "Soar Unafriad". Jo writes so openly of her challenges with Multiple Sclerosis and its impact on her life, her family, and her mobility. She shares her innermost thoughts, as she struggles each day with this disease and yet allows God's grace to faithfully lead her moment by moment. She never gives up! She enjoys life to the fullest with each step in the day. I am challenged to do the same and "Soar Unfraid".

This book comes highly recommended in Jo sharing her testamony of serious illness, injury, abuse, rejection, marriage problems...so many of the worst of things that can happen to us. It is inspiring and breathes hope into each issue as she turns to God and finds all that she needs in His ever-present grace and love. It is an incredible thing to see where people can go...soaring!!...in this kind of pain. It will give you much help and encouragement on whatever may be in your present or past. Please read this book!!

Faith is sometimes a hard thing to do. But once you go thru the issue, it's like, why did I ever doubt?
In this book, it has helped me not to want to give up praying or hoping. Even though I've been praying for years for certain things and people, I get tired and want to quit. God has placed this book in my life To tell me to just hang on, God is there. This Life story has given me hope that in God's time, His plan will come about and that I need to keep on Praying and hoping and keeping the faith strong in God, especially thru the times that I feel the most vulnerable to the world. This is a trully inspiring reading. I read sometimes into the middle of the night.

I truly am excited about Soaring Unafraid and I want to share it with as many people as possible.

Jo's life models how to trust God in the midst of pain and heartache and even how to accept them. Her life and testimony have encouraged countless women dealing with their own personal tragedies, but I was moved by the transformation of her formerly emotionally scarred husband, Ray. He has shown me how to be a godly husband and father. Terrific book!

If you've heard Jo speak and sing, her book adds dimension to what you already know about her life challenges. Whether her problems have been caused by her genes or her relationships with others, the strength she finds from her walk with God and sharing that with others will leave you wanting to share this book with your friends.

Jo has written a honest book about the everyday struggles of life. Besides sharing about the heartache of divorce and the issues of a step-family, Jo is insprational in writing of her faith during the diagnosis and living with MS. I was touched how open Jo was to share her failures and her successes, knowing many of 'characters' in the book would read it. Having met Jo at a women's retreat, then reading her book - her incredible realationship with God that is genuinely communicated in her writing. The book is uplifting and gives hope when life seems too much; always pointing to God as her strength and always praising him for his activity in her life. Jo inspires me to seek a deeper and more personal relationship with my Savior.

What amazes me is that in spite of Jo's circumstances, throughout the book, she remained faithful and prayed to God. NO MATTER WHAT she was going through; whether it be extreme physical pain, emotional pain or a combination of both, she was going to remain in communication with the heavenly father and was going to continue to do the right thing and seek and communicate with the Lord. When I read the book, I was in the deepest and darkest time in my life with loss and depression. Jo's book gave me encouragement, much encouragement. No one can imagine what life is like with a debilitating disease except the person going through it. Hearing Jo continue to love the Lord and have faith even when she had every right and natural inclination to be angry, depressed and bitter changed the way I looked at my own situation and gave me hope when I had none. A must read.