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While Lysa TerKeurst was on stages telling millions of Christian women how to have a godly marriage, her own was falling apart. What she did next is what most Christian women never think to do. Lysa TerKeurst spent 29 years building what she thought was a Christian marriage. Then it ended in a way she never thought her family would face. For more than two decades, she was a New York Times bestselling author and the president of Proverbs 31 Ministries, one of the largest ministries to women in America. She had built her entire life on telling women that God's Word was enough. And then her marriage of almost 29 years came to an end after one of the hardest seasons of her life. She has talked about it openly from the stage. "I was heartbroken. And though I fought and begged God to save my marriage, for years and years and years, I would forgive and things would fall apart. I would forgive and things would fall apart. I would forgive and things would fall apart." Read those last lines again. I would forgive and things would fall apart. I would forgive and things would fall apart. I would forgive and things would fall apart. I have lived that line. I have forgiven and watched things fall apart anyway. I have tried to pray my way through something and felt like I was just talking into the dark. I have sat in church on Sunday with a smile on my face and gone home and cried in my car. Lysa describes the lowest season of her life as a place where she could barely take care of herself. She wasn't lazy. She was living hurt. And there's a difference between being a Christian and being a Christian who is living hurt. We can love Jesus and still feel like we're falling apart. We can know all the right verses and still cry ourselves to sleep. We can serve in church every single Sunday and still feel like we're slowly disappearing. And here is what almost no one tells you. Going to church more doesn't fix it. Listening to more sermons doesn't fix it. Telling yourself to just trust God one more time doesn't fix it. Lysa figured out what does. When her life fell apart, she did something most Christian women never think to do. She didn't read another self-help book. She didn't try to white-knuckle her way through it. She went into her Bible. And she stayed there. She's said it openly on every stage she's stood on since. "I did over 1,000 hours with a theologian, studying in the Bible exactly what God's word says about forgiveness. But before you get all impressed, I want you to know, about 750 of those hours, I was looking for the loophole." One thousand hours. Not one thousand hours of reading. One thousand hours of actually understanding. And what she found in those pages didn't just give her information. It gave her her life back. But here's what most Christian women never figure out, and what nobody in church seems willing to say out loud. We don't have to wait until our lives fall apart to do what Lysa did. Most of us only open our Bible the way she did when we have no other choice. When the hard season finally breaks us. When we get desperate enough to actually study it. The rest of the time, we read three chapters in the morning, close the book, and can't remember any of it by lunch. I know because I was that woman. I went to church every Sunday for my entire adult life. I owned more Bibles than I could count. I started reading plans in January more times than I can remember. I made it through Leviticus barely holding on, wondering what animal sacrifices have to do with my life. I read Romans and closed the book not being able to explain a single thing I had just read. I read the Psalms when I was at my lowest. They comforted me in the moment, but two days later I couldn't tell you a single thing I had learned. Year after year, the same cycle. Start in January. Slow down by March. Quietly stop by April. And carry that shame, that quiet guilt of being a Christian woman who still didn't really know her own Bible, all the way back to December. When I'd tell myself again that next year would be different. And underneath all of it, the whole time, I was living hurt. Hurt I never named. Hurt I never gave to God. Hurt I just learned to walk around with, like a stone in my shoe I'd gotten used to. Lysa says something at every conference she stands on now. "We've either just been through some hurt, we're in the middle of some hurt, or we're about to go through some hurt." That's all of us. And the problem isn't that we don't pray about it. The problem isn't that we don't believe God can heal it. The problem is that we don't actually know him well enough to let him. It's like reading letters from someone you've never met and wondering why you don't feel close to them. Lysa needed 1,000 hours in the Bible with a theologian to finally hear God speak to her pain. Most Christian women don't have a theologian. We don't have 1,000 hours. We have maybe 30 minutes in the morning before everyone wakes up, with a cup of coffee and a book we don't really understand. That's when I found something that changed everything. A 52-week guided study that walks you through the entire Bible, one theme at a time, from Genesis to Revelation. Before we read anything each week, it gives us a short explanation of exactly what we're about to get into. Who wrote it. When. Why. What was happening at the time. And how every page connects to who God actually is, and how deeply he loves the woman reading it. Psalms: written by people who were also living hurt. People who cried out from the same dark places I did. And what God said back to them. Genesis: not just the story of how it all started, but the story of how God showed up for hurting women, over and over, from the very beginning. The gospels: why Jesus put forgiveness at the center of the most important prayer he ever taught us, and what it actually means for the person you can't stop thinking about. For the first time in my life, I read my Bible and I knew who I was reading about. For the first time, I read about a God who was actually big enough to hold what I was carrying. I'd open it in the morning and not want to close it. I'd read something and think about it all day. Verses I had read dozens of times suddenly meant something completely new, because I finally had the context to understand what they were saying. And slowly, week by week, something shifted. I stopped living hurt. Not because the hurt disappeared. It didn't. But because I finally knew the God who could carry it with me. Lysa says it like this. "What hurt you doesn't have to define you." She's right. But you can't get there by reading three chapters and closing the book. You have to actually go in. This study is the closest most of us are ever going to get to Lysa's 1,000 hours. The same depth, broken into pieces small enough to actually do. Right now it's up to 62% off, and every order comes with a free pen pack. Let's not spend another year living hurt. Let's not spend another year being Christian women who know about God but have never actually met him on the page. Tap below and grab yours before they sell out.