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Rebecca and Jay Madden

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Breathless Haste

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Have you faced profound loss, received devastating news, navigated career changes, or encountered financial hardships? Have you questioned your faith in God during these times? Where have you sought hope and direction? Have you wondered how to find God in the midst of it all?

When the Madden family tragically lost their firstborn son in infancy, they embarked on a journey to discover God amidst their grief and continued to seek His presence thereafter. In Breathless Haste: Finding God in Ordinary Life, they share thirty diverse stories of encountering God in everyday moments - from the mundane to the miraculous: in sorrow, at a McDonalds, through music, poetry, a cassette tape, creation, a scrapbook, an old digital clock, a bankruptcy case and beyond. Each story bears witness to a living God actively involved in their lives, offering a profound testimony that the modern world desperately needs.

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Author Biography

With over twenty-five years of ministry experience in churches in South Carolina, Chicago, and Atlanta, Jay and Rebecca Madden have dedicated themselves to guiding others on their spiritual journey in churches, neighborhoods, and groups. They currently serve at one of the largest Presbyterian churches in the United States, with Jay as Executive Pastor and Rebecca as Women’s Ministry Director. Their ministry is to inspire and empower others to awaken their own heart, mind, and soul to encounter an extraordinary God in their ordinary life.

When they aren’t working, they enjoy spending time with their daughter and son-in-law, Neale and Robert, who live in Atlanta, and they love visiting their son, William, who works in Costa Rica. They venture to Clemson football games, and they take long walks at the river with their beloved black labrador, Ranger, and they love to read – especially on the beach.

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Breathless Haste: Finding God in Ordinary Life is for spiritually curious adults who value authenticity, vulnerability, and deep reflection. If you’re drawn to memoirs and real-life stories that wrestle honestly with faith, suffering, and transformation, this book is for you. Recently, a Messianic Jewish woman told us that our book reminded her of the Hebrew word Hineni (הִנֵּנִי)—which means “Here I am.” It’s a declaration of presence and surrender, of saying “I’m all in,” even without knowing the full task ahead. Abraham said it. Moses said it. Isaiah said it. It’s a word of trust and obedience. We would never compare ourselves to Abraham, Moses, or Isaiah—but like them, we’ve learned that God often calls us to obey before we fully understand. As Jay shares in this excerpt, it’s when we take the posture of “Whatever” that we most deeply experience God’s presence and direction in our lives.

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Breathless Haste

Posture

I will stand at my post.

I have an image in my mind of someone standing on a watchtower with arms outstretched and hands open, waiting for a vision from God. I imagine it that way, because our posture while waiting is critical. As I reflect on our story, some of the times when we experienced God in the most dramatic ways was when we said, “Whatever.” We will do whatever You want, go wherever You lead, whenever You tell us. It was that posture that led me to sell my business when I first sensed a call to ministry (chapter 3). It was also our posture in those months before leaving the church in Chicago and being led to Peachtree (chapter 9). That is such a hard posture to take, even now. More often than not, we negotiate with God instead of surrendering to God. However, I believe God most often speaks in extraordinary ways to those who take that posture and are prepared to respond to whatever He asks.
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Rebecca and Jay Madden

Breathless Haste

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