Unexpected: What To Do When Life Disrupts Your Plans

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Everybody Encounters the Unexpected!

Whether it’s losing a job, receiving a bad report from a doctor, a late-night phone call, a relationship ending, a financial setback, or a dashed dream, “unexpected” shows up in unwelcome ways. Sometimes it feels like it’s raining rocks, and we’re doing our best to dodge a fatal blow. The question is, how do we respond when life unexpectedly disrupts our plans.

In Unexpected: What to Do When Life Disrupts Your Plans, Stephen and Karen Blandino share their personal stories of pain and disruption. Karen shares how her peace was stolen during a robbery when five young men broke into her house, and then dragged her out of the shower at gunpoint. Stephen shares his journey of simultaneous congestive heart failure and pulmonary failure despite years of annual check-ups with good reports.

From their stories, Stephen and Karen share seven valuable takeaways that will help you navigate your own unexpected circumstances:

• Prayer
• Trust
• Perspective
• Family
• Community
• Purpose
• Legacy

Each takeaway is loaded with practical wisdom that you can apply to your life today. And every chapter includes honest, authentic, and emotional clips from Stephen and Karen’s journey. Whether you’re navigating an unexpected disruption, or your life is going great, the insights in Unexpected will inspire hope, offer wisdom, and deepen your faith.

What Others Are Saying

“An invaluable, honest and practical look at how we should respond when unexpected disruptions happen in our lives. This affirming message of hope and healing is a must read!”

– JOHN MCKINZIE, Lead Pastor, Hope Fellowship, Frisco, Texas

“When life disrupts your plans – and it will – how will you respond? Karen and Stephen Blandino have walked through deep valleys of disruption and emerged with truth that will help you face your own times of pain and loss. Take advantage of their hard-won perspective for facing the unexpected setbacks and traumas in your own life.”

– DR. DANIEL ALLEN, Leadership Coach and author of Summoned: Stepping Up to Live and Lead with Jesus.

“Stephen and Karen say we actively avoid disruptions. I do! And yet this book clearly shows that we need not do this. Instead, we need to embrace these interruptions as God showing up just for us. The Blandinos clearly show that God uses life’s disruptions to bring true meaning and purpose into our lives. I was blessed by this book, and you will be too.”

– DR. KATHLEEN PATTERSON, Professor and Director of the Doctorate of Strategic Leadership Program for the School of Business and Leadership at Regent University

“No matter what side of life’s disruption you’re on, you will treasure this book. It is authentic, practical, eye-opening, effective, and encouraging. You don’t have a choice when it comes to life’s unexpected disruptions, but this may just be what you need to get through it.”

– DAN HUNTER, Lead Pastor, Living Church, Mansfield, Texas

“The ‘grace stories’ of others uplift and encourage us. Stephen and Karen Blandino have written a wonderful book that does just that. You’ll find yourself inspired, encouraged, and feeling hope as you live out the ‘grace walk’ we call the Christian life. Life lessons abound in Unexpected: What to Do When Life Disrupts Your Plans.”

– DR. LEROY BARTEL, Dean for the College of Bible and Church Ministries, Southwestern Assemblies of God University, Waxahachie, Texas

“Everyone, and I mean everyone, faces unexpected events at some point in their life. You’re probably either coming out of a crisis, in one, or getting ready to experience one. Wherever you find yourself, the principles Stephen and Karen share through their own stories will give you the tools to navigate those unexpected moments that catch you by surprise.”

– JOHN DAVIDSON, Spiritual Formation Pastor, The Oaks Fellowship, Red Oak, Texas

“I want to recommend Unexpected: What to Do When Life Disrupts Your Plans. Stephen & Karen Blandino provide fantastic encouragement, coaching, and practical steps to deal with circumstances in life that disrupt our plans. The “7 takeaways” alone, are worth the price of the book. And if you’re a pastor, church planter, or ministry leader, this book would be a great foundation for a sermon series or small group study.”

– DAVE MCNAUGHTON, Church Planting Catalyst and Coach, and Team Leader for Church Multiplication Network

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