Shoulders
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Amber Thomas wasn't the kind of orphan foster parents would look at twice. She was fifteen, she had depression, she cut herself, and had attempted suicide multiple times. No one even cared she existed, except for Katelyn, Conor, and Hanna, her only friends. One night at a concert, she met Joel and Luke Smallbone, from For King and Country, and Joel and his wife, Moriah, decided to foster her after hearing her story. Six weeks later, after some crazy drama to finalize the adoption, their whole world collapses with two sentences. Even when everything comes crashing down around her, Amber struggles to find God in what is happening. And then, one song that her adoptive father and uncle wrote changes everything she thought about how God helps her. And she learns that, even when life is nowhere near understandable, God has never left our side.
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