When Christian singer and speaker Staci Frenes learned her teenage daughter was gay, she found her dreams for the future--along with her lifelong faith--collapsing around her. Coming to terms with a new reality was a challenge--and an invitation--to make room for many things along the way: the inevitability of uncertainty, hope in the midst of loss, awkward and tough conversations, an expanding faith, and a greater understanding of how people are more the same than different.
In Love Makes Room, Frenes helps readers see that a reimagined future may look different than our old hoped-for pictures of ourselves and our families, but it can also be wider, deeper, and more fulfilling than we ever dreamed.
Love Makes Room : And Other Things I Learned When My Daughter Came Out
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Table of Contents
Say Maybe to the Dress
Making Room for Hope in the Midst of Loss
Tears in the Rain
Making Room for the Unexpected
Pacing the Floors
Making Room for Questions
Sleepovers and Crushes
Making Room for Awkward Conversations
Whose Story is This?
Making Room for Perspectives
Picturing You
Making Room for Remembering
Circle of Trust
Making Room for New Community
The BLT's
Making Room for Laughter
Just Folks
Making Room for People Beyond the Labels
Uninvited
Making Room for Differences Over Divisions
Love and the Last Word
Making Room for An Expanding Faith
Why I Tell It
Making Room for Untold Stories
Afterword
Making Room for a Re-Imagined Future