This Box of Darkness
I'm eighteen and faced with the most difficult decision of my life:
Do I follow my crush to the missionary Bible school of my dreams?
Do I go to college with my ex-boyfriend to see if we still have a future?
Or do I stay home with my dad who's just been diagnosed with a brain tumor?
Pick one door. Close the others. Live with the fallout.
This Box of Darkness is a raw coming-of-age memoir about love, loss, and learning to trust God. Told through the eyes of Maddie, a pastor's kid who's been "saved" for as long as she can remember, it traces the final year of her father's life: a Marine turned youth pastor and missionary who lived to glorify God, even as brain cancer stripped everything away. Poignant and deeply personal, this memoir explores what it means to wrestle with God when your carefully laid plans completely fall apart.
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This Box of Darkness
I'm eighteen and faced with the most difficult decision of my life:
Do I follow my crush to the missionary Bible school of my dreams?
Do I go to college with my ex-boyfriend to see if we still have a future?
Or do I stay home with my dad who's just been diagnosed with a brain tumor?
Pick one door. Close the others. Live with the fallout.
This Box of Darkness is a raw coming-of-age memoir about love, loss, and learning to trust God. Told through the eyes of Maddie, a pastor's kid who's been "saved" for as long as she can remember, it traces the final year of her father's life: a Marine turned youth pastor and missionary who lived to glorify God, even as brain cancer stripped everything away. Poignant and deeply personal, this memoir explores what it means to wrestle with God when your carefully laid plans completely fall apart.
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This Box of Darkness

This Box of Darkness

by Madeleine Arnold
This Box of Darkness

This Box of Darkness

by Madeleine Arnold

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Overview

I'm eighteen and faced with the most difficult decision of my life:
Do I follow my crush to the missionary Bible school of my dreams?
Do I go to college with my ex-boyfriend to see if we still have a future?
Or do I stay home with my dad who's just been diagnosed with a brain tumor?
Pick one door. Close the others. Live with the fallout.
This Box of Darkness is a raw coming-of-age memoir about love, loss, and learning to trust God. Told through the eyes of Maddie, a pastor's kid who's been "saved" for as long as she can remember, it traces the final year of her father's life: a Marine turned youth pastor and missionary who lived to glorify God, even as brain cancer stripped everything away. Poignant and deeply personal, this memoir explores what it means to wrestle with God when your carefully laid plans completely fall apart.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798999851215
Publisher: Madeleine Arnold
Publication date: 10/01/2025
Series: All For Jesus , #1
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Madeleine Arnold answers to Maddie and lives in Massachusetts with her extra-tall hippie husband and their tribe of three wild daughters. She teaches 7-8th grade history and English at the private school she once attended. A performing artist at heart, she writes between the rhythms of marriage, motherhood, work, and play(ing ukulele)—always with the goal of blessing the Bride of Christ.

This is her first book.
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