Growing Down: Gods Grace, in Spite of Myself

As a lifelong Christian, Sarah Wetzel tried everything she knew to grow holier and happier. But as a young mom, laboring alongside her missionary husband high in the Andes Mountains, she came to the painful realization that her spiritual “fruit basket” was still empty and her faith was dying on the vine. Why am I entertaining sinful thoughts? she wondered. Where are the souls won for Christ? Where is the peace, love, and joy?

Sarah railed against God and tried to become an agnostic.

But at ...