If Only

If only...I could make sense of all the stuff that either hasn't happened, won't happen, or can't happen. Regrets come 24/7 and Michelle helps us to choose a journey that releases us from our resentments over life's missing pieces.

Melinda Schmidt
Broadcaster, Co-host, Midday Connection; Host, Bring To Mind podcast – both on Moody Radio Network

If Only: Letting Go of Regret delivers deep wisdom wrapped in masterful writing, incisive insight, and relevant narrative. Michelle Van Loon’s words continue to do their work long after the last page is turned. Her transparency cuts the core for everyone who has thought they’ve fallen short and struggled with regret. If Only delivers powerful tools to help readers grow, heal, and break free of the chains of the past.

Shelly Beach
Award-winning author of The Silent Seduction of Self-Talk and Love Letters from the Edge

If Only I had this book earlier in my life--I could've saved myself lots of guilt over past regrets and had the tools to live in such a way that I'd garner fewer of them. With an expert blend of raw, gutsy story-telling, biblical, tried-and-true wisdom, and some "did you read my soul?" prayers to bring it all home, Michelle Van Loon shows us all how to live beyond the if only's and accept the grace and love that await.

Caryn Rivadeneira
Author, Broke: What Financial Desperation Revealed About God's Abundance and Known and Loved: 52 Devotions from the Psalms

So many of us ruefully pine over our various roads not traveled. In If Only, Michelle Van Loon offers gentle wisdom from Scripture and moving stories that show us how we can own our regrets so that they don't own and consume us, inviting us to live in the freedom for which Christ set us free.

Rachel Marie Stone
Author, Eat With Joy: Redeeming God’s Gift of Food

Regret can debilitate us. Paralyze us. Imprison us in a shriveling life. Michelle Van Loon knows what it’s like to live in regret and with its accompanying miseries. But, no more. Now she lives the Jesus life to the full. In this warmly rich and insightful book, Michelle becomes for us God’s messenger of grace, one who helps us unlock our prison doors. Read this book and be set free to live the abundant life Jesus offers. Stick with this eminently wise companion. I can think of no better guide to lead us from regret to redemption.

Marlena Graves
Author, A Beautiful Disaster: Finding Hope in the Midst of Brokenness and is a regular contributor to Christianity Today’s "Her.meneutics" and "Gifted For Leadership" blogs.

Michelle Van Loon writes with sensitivity, biblical insight and touching humor about something that is painfully present in all of our lives. If Only.... addresses a topic that can either overwhelm us or paralyze us. She helps us understand regret, see it clearly, and deal with it appropriately. This book will be a much needed resource especially for women and will help many untangle the webs of regret that have held us captive for years. I highly recommend this very special book.

Dale Hanson Bourke
Author, Embracing Your Second Calling

In If Only, Michelle Van Loon not only acknowledges the weight of guilt most of us privately carry, but parses the difference between remorse and regret. More importantly, she invites readers to redeem our “if onlies.”

Convicting, confessional, and grace-filled, Van Loon’s words will nudge readers toward letting go of regret and toward loving God and others with a whole heart.

I love the stories she tells and the wisdom she imparts in this compelling book.

Jennifer Grant
Author, Love You More, MOMumental, Disquiet Time, and 12.

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