Lacking Nothing - by Natasha Kennedy (Paperback)

About the Book

This deeply personal book tells the true story of a year of involuntary fasting that became a surprising encounter with the sufficiency of Christ. You'll learn how to embrace seasons of lack as sacred spaces where Jesus proves to be enough and experience the rhythm of fasting and feasting as a way to know Christ's presence in both emptiness and abundance.

Book Synopsis

There are so many ways we can experience lack in this life: loneliness, loss, underemployment, empty-nesting, literal hunger, and the void left by a bad habit we've overcome but not replaced. Each creates a hole in our souls that we may try everything to fill, but only one thing is needed.

Natasha Kennedy knows the reality of lack firsthand in a way most of us can't imagine. Through a debilitating chronic illness, Natasha lost her ability to eat. In her own words, "As I walk through life in a body that cannot swallow food, I will always experience the temptation to turn my head to the right or to the left--toward other pleasures or comforts that promise to fill my lack. But this emptiness is my allotted suffering; it is my appointed opportunity to see Jesus fill my emptiness. For him to be enough. In a world of excess and abundance, losing my ability to eat forced me to embrace lack and find provision and sustenance in the person of Christ alone."

Through her remarkable story of choosing to trust Jesus' promise that he indeed is enough, Natasha will encourage you, in the midst of your own experience of lack, pain, and suffering, to cling to Jesus and not let go until you receive your blessing.

About the Author

Natasha Kennedy is an author and illustrator based in Seattle. She is passionate about the relationship between art and theology and enjoys sharing the beauty and truth of Christ with the world through her work. Natasha suffers from several debilitating chronic illnesses and an invisible disability that causes her chronic pain and prohibits her ability to eat. She is married to her husband, Lindsay, homeschools her four children, and has two cats, Curtains and Fauxe.