“An Extraordinary Ordinary Life” is an inspiring chronicle of the author’s life from her lonely growing-up years in a broken home in suburbia to a radical spiritual transformation as a teenager. She humbly shares how God has led her through a host of unique and trying circumstances in the years since, including the 20 years she endured in an abusive marriage.
Be inspired as Cindy recounts times she has felt His promptings, witnessed true-to-life miracles and been awed to hear God’s warm, inaudible voice. “An Extraordinary Ordinary Life” tempts the reader to fall in love with the wondrous God who seeks to transform our ordinary lives into ones that are truly extraordinary.
Cindy Burrell is a survivor of a 20-year marriage to a verbal and emotional abuser, the author of “Why Is He So Mean to Me?” and “God Is My Witness: Making a Case for Biblical Divorce.” She is also a co-founder of Hurt by Love, a web-based ministry to women in abusive relationships, an outreach that has reached thousands of women in at least 42 countries.
“An Extraordinary Ordinary Life,” offers Cindy’s powerful testimony of God’s grace and faithfulness, revealing how her “…little corner of the universe has been invaded and sweetened by the touch of a God who defies all imaginings.”
Join Cindy as she chronicles the emotional neglect that overshadowed her childhood until, as a teenager, her pained existence was transformed by an encounter with God. In the midst of circumstances that have challenged her journey of faith, Cindy recalls moments when she has heard the inaudible whispers of the Spirit, been moved by His promptings, and seen God’s protective, providing hand.
Be inspired by true-to-life stories of trauma, loss and redemption, where strange, divine – and even miraculous – intervention reveals the heart of our ever-personal Father-God, the One who can“…restore the years that the locusts have eaten.” (Joel 2)
“Each and every day presents an opportunity to fall into the arms of our amazing Savior and to relish the beauty of an intimately personal relationship with Him. My experiences say nothing of me, but only of Him. It is He who longs to reveal Himself in miraculous ways, that each and every one of us may know what it’s like to live an extraordinary ordinary life.” – Cindy Burrell