NEW RELEASE!
I am pleased to announce my first non-fiction book, Lacking Nothing, published with Baker Books (originally Lexham Press). I tell the story of how my disease stole my ability to eat, and gave me a life of Chronic pain as my body slowly breaks down. In this story, I get the happy ending no one was expecting. No, I didn't get food back. That will be a lifelong loss. But—I found freedom from my desperate need to comfort and fulfill myself day in and day out, and look to Christ for my ultimate fulfillment, rest, and satisfaction. He is enough for me.
Discover the sacred gift hidden in seasons of lack
There are so many ways we can experience lack in this life: loneliness, loss, underemployment, empty-nesting, literal hunger, and more.
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 solid food. Lacking Nothing tells the story of the first year that she lost her ability to eat, and how through that loss she learned to rely on Jesus for lasting sufficiency.
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 solid food. Lacking Nothing tells the story of the first year that she lost her ability to eat, and how through that loss she learned to rely on Jesus for lasting sufficiency.
“I will always experience the temptation to turn my head to the right or to the left, toward other pleasures or comforts which might wash over my sadness or fill my emptiness,” Natasha says. "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’s promise that he is indeed enough, Natasha will encourage you, in your own experience of lack, pain, and suffering, to cling to Jesus and not let go.
UPCOMING BOOKS
This next installment in the FatCat series is still in the pre-production period, and is still awaiting a print date.
The theme of this book has to do with "Jesus having time for us on all our days," teaching the child how, no matter what kind of day they are having, Jesus has time for them.
As the book walks through different stories from Jesus' life, the color theme changes, based on the season of the Church Calendar. For example, during lent, the child he meets is dressed in purple, and Easter is white and gold!
Screen Doors
Screen Doors is a book that Tasha is both Authoring and Illustrating. It belongs in a small series about wisdom for children and families around technology. Natasha uses allegory and imagery to explain to children how screens are like doors, taking us to other places, and allowing others to look inside our own homes.
This book is about how to establish a strong sense of home and identity within the family, and how then to properly steward our technology when we use it to access the outside world.
Natasha is in the process of selecting a publisher for this book.
(Cover image just a stand-in)
Sky Fury is the third and final book in the high fantasy Tempest Trilogy. Of course, as I call it "the third book," it came out so long, I had to split it into two volumes. I plan to release them at the same time, though—so don't worry—you'll get the final installment.
I am in the final editing process, and I plan to release it this summer! Good motivation is getting it out before the Lacking Nothing book releases.
It is the end of an epic saga, where you didn't think stakes could get any higher, and there's deep character conflict and growth, surprise romances, mind-bending plot twists, and nail-biting suspense. And as ever, this book goes deep into symbolism, transcendentals, and complex moral conundrums.
The question in Firmaments (when is it right to kill the king?) Gets readdressed and amplified in this story, pushing even harder and deeper into the question, and making you feel like there is no real way forward.
And lastly, watch as lead characters from both Firmaments and Castling come together in the final conclusion to this saga.