Joyful Sadness
Sometimes healing looks like breaking. Sometimes joy lives in the same place as the sorrow. ♡
Sometimes healing looks like breaking. Sometimes joy lives in the same place as the sorrow. ♡
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The house needed everything. New joists, a raised foundation, a full plumbing and electric overhaul. I walked through it the first time holding my breath, and I understood the place immediately, because I was in the same condition.
Joyful Sadness is the story of the years I stopped resisting and let grief and gladness exist in the same house. This is a book about a marriage that had to be rebuilt from the frame up, a family that stayed while it happened, and what God does with a heart that has finally stopped pretending it isn't cracked.
I'm Emily Kathryn Reed. You may know me as ReedPurposed on Instagram — the one tearing out subfloors and rebuilding vintage campers.
For twelve years I've made worn-out houses livable again. I live in a small town outside Dallas with my husband and our three children. Joyful Sadness is the story underneath all that work.
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A podcast is coming, built around the same conversations this book is made of. Subscribers hear the first episode before it goes anywhere else.
