Touching The Shadows: A Love Tested And Renewed [Hardcover]

Bruce Nygren (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 16, 2000

Many issues can strain a marriage relationship, but none is as challenging as a life-threatening illness. Every year, almost two hundred thousand women are diagnosed with breast cancer. When Racinda Nygren joined the ranks of these women, she and her husband, Bruce, were thrust into an agonizing season of their marriage. With warmth and depth, Bruce shares their moving story. Touching the Shadows shows the power of love and faith amid a harrowing trial and will encourage readers to renew their own commitment to their spouse and celebrate God's special gift of love together.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Faced with the sobering reality that death might be about to separate him from his wife, Racinda, Nygren (Child of Rage and 101 Ways to Your Husband's Heart) fought hard against waves of despair. The couple had already endured an agonizingly distant marriage characterized by tumultuous highs and lows, offering little preparation for Racinda's terrifying diagnosis of breast cancer. While many couples blindly stumble through such crises, making temporary peace during the peak stresses, Nygren, eyes wide open, understood and embraced the painful rebirth of his love for Racinda. With a tender transparency, the author tells the story of their marriage from its passionate beginnings to its slow-motion walk to death and ultimate resurrection during Racinda's fight with cancer. He watches helplessly as his wife suffers brutal cancer treatments and clings to slender threads of hope. Celebration reigns as Racinda recovers; then grief returns in full strength as her cancer reappears. Nygren calls upon his adept literary skills to carefully craft this amazing story of marital renewal during one of life's most horrendous scenarios. Nygren writes that although we live in a world that is suffering relationally, physically and spiritually, the good news is that the end of the story is already written for his family and for all Christians, whose faith promises a new life, glimpsed through the shadows.
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 211 pages
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers; 1st edition (January 16, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785267808
• ISBN-13: 978-0785267805
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,640,943 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It is hard to put down, must keep reading!, March 21, 2001

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"tazzy723" (Jersey City, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Touching The Shadows: A Love Tested And Renewed (Hardcover)

I've never been a non-fiction reader but i must say that this book is very interesting. I am not fully done with it yet but i cant seem to put it down. Bruce Nygren uses such wonderful detail in this book, and you almost feel like he is talking to you. I definitely recommend this book to anyone who is interested in true sotries about real life situations.