Tethered to Hope

The Quiet Kindness of God in Crisis, Change, and the Spaces In Between

From the back cover:

When the initial shock waves begin to settle after a job loss, a diagnosis, a relationship breakdown, a season of grief or intense change, or a jarring shift in faith or identity, we find ourselves in the crisis after the crisis – the aftermath of whatever it is that has splayed our hearts wide open. These lonely, liminal spaces between who we were and who we’re becoming are disorienting and confusing. It can be hard to hold on to hope when our bearings feel illusive.

In the exhausting tension between here and there where pain and confusion feel loud, Adriel Booker helps you perceive God’s quiet kindness that has been there all along, hidden in plain sight on the underside of crisis, change, and all the spaces in between.

Adriel lights a candle in your darkness and companions you as you adjust to the low light and begin to apprehend the reality that you’re already tethered to hope–even when you feel anything but.

Endorsements for Tethered to Hope

“Adriel Booker has long been a trusted guide in my life, a kind friend, and a woman whose wisdom points me to wholeness and to its source, Jesus. In Tethered to Hope, Booker offers practical reflections to remember our roots after crisis, filled with questions, stories, and consolations that remind us God sees us, even when we can’t yet see our way forward.”

K.J. Ramsey

Licensed therapist and author of The Place Between Our Pains and The Book of Common Courage

“This book is a companion for the thresholds we cannot name, guiding us to stand in the doorway between what has ended and what has not yet begun. With language both tender and unflinching, Adriel Booker reminds us that our vocation is less a destination than a courageous dwelling in the questions that change us.”

Scott Erickson

Author of In the Low and Honest Advent

“Anyone who finds themselves in a season of transition—or in that liminal space between the already and the not yet (which, in truth, is all of us)—will find something here. I certainly did when this book came to me. Instead of bracing against change or numbing out, Booker invites us into presence: to practice curiosity and courage, to normalize complex feelings toward the church, to welcome doubt, and to acknowledge the uniquely difficult era we’re all living through. This beautiful book was written over years; Booker lived what she wrote, and that slow, intentional work makes it both deeply relatable and profoundly human. I can’t overstate how much I needed it.”

Sara Billups

Author of Nervous Systems and Orphaned Believers

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Adriel Booker is a writer, speaker, and curator who believes the best things in life happen while gathered around the table. She lives with her family among the gum trees and sea breezes of a small town on Ngarrindjeri Country in the Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia, where they own and operate a café, vintage shop, and co-working studio for creatives. Adriel is the author of Tethered to Hope and Grace Like Scarlett and has appeared in outlets such as Christianity Today and ABC Religion & Ethics. She writes regularly at The Foundry on Substack, and can also be found at AdrielBooker.com and across social media platforms at @adrielbooker.