ABOUT THE Book
I Can’t Rest Now, Lord! I’m Responsible…
Gena Bradford writes for the inspirational market, gently reminding weary,
beleaguered men and women of their immeasurable worth to God. A former struggler with burnout, she shares vibrant, life-changing lessons, helping others come into God’s rest amid the relentless, everyday challenges of working and living. God loves rested sheep! They are winsome witnesses to a tired, discouraged, and hungry-for-rest world.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gena Bradford
Moving cross-country and around the world on a yearly basis as a child with her military family, Gena Bradford often felt untethered. But when her grandmother gifted her a diary, life started to seem just that much more stable.
“The blank page became a welcoming, unconditional friend,” she said. “Journaling was my way of processing life, praying, listening and recording life lessons.”
From then on, while journaling, writing poetry or experimenting with short stories and children’s literature, Bradford never stopped writing, but it wasn’t until her mid-30s – after raising four children and running a home daycare center for several years – that she finally had the chance to finish her English degree.
She remembered the words of encouragement from Linda Hunt, her writing professor at Whitworth: “Gena, you’ve got a hundred stories to tell.”
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One Saturday evening that fall, Gena returned to campus after teaching a class at the YMCA. She was late for dinner and hadn’t changed out of her dance clothes, not wanting to miss out on steak night.
Jack worked for dining services to pay for college. He was grilling steaks when he noticed a beautiful young woman…