FAITH FOR REAL LIFE • BOOK 2

FINDING PEACE
IN HARD TIMES

How to Face Grief, Anxiety, Waiting and Conflict Without Losing Hope

JOSSY IBE

Published by DALFAST Publishing House (DALFAST, s.r.o.).

Copyright and Reader Notice

Copyright © 2026 Jossy Ibe. All rights reserved. Published by DALFAST Publishing House (DALFAST, s.r.o.).

Scripture quotations identified as World English Bible are from the public-domain World English Bible British Edition.

This book offers Christian education and general personal-growth guidance. It does not provide medical, psychological, legal, financial, safeguarding or emergency advice. Prayer, pastoral care and spiritual practices may accompany qualified support but must not replace it. If you or another person may be in immediate danger, contact local emergency or safeguarding services.

Mara, Daniel, Lena, Ruth and the other recurring people are fictional composite teaching characters. Their stories protect privacy and illustrate decisions; they do not promise identical outcomes.

Preface

Peace That Can Tell the Truth

Hard seasons expose the difference between a faith that needs life to cooperate and a faith that can remain honest when life does not. A diagnosis is unclear. A relationship ends without the conversation someone hoped for. Work disappears. A prayer is repeated until the words feel worn. Grief arrives in waves that do not respect the calendar. In those moments, the word peace can sound either beautiful or cruel.

Some readers have been taught that peace means feeling calm, smiling quickly or refusing to speak about fear. That definition rewards concealment. It can leave a grieving person performing gratitude, an anxious person hiding symptoms and a harmed person wondering whether boundaries prove unforgiveness. This book begins with a different claim: Christian peace is not emotional numbness and it is not immediate relief.