She Was Carried Through Every Valley

Some stories begin with loss. Diana Kannady's begins with a little girl whispering prayers through a bedroom window - and traces the unbreakable thread of faith that held her through decades of grief, grace, and unlikely redemption.

At twenty-two, Diana watched the father of her unborn child taken from her in an act of sudden violence. She raised her daughter alone, rebuilt her life, and found love again in a man whose quiet steadiness became her anchor. Together they built a family, weathered storms, and arrived at something that felt like wholeness.

Then, on the afternoon of her oldest daughter's wedding, she lost him too.

The Story Behind My Praise is the memoir of a woman who has faced the unthinkable - twice - and found that God did not flinch in either valley. With disarming honesty, Diana traces her journey from childhood faith to adult heartbreak to hard-won joy, revealing how praise became not a performance, but a lifeline. How forgiveness - even of God - became a doorway to healing. And how the same voice that met her at a bedroom window as a girl continued to meet her in hospital waiting rooms, courtrooms, and the silence of an empty house.

This is not a book about having the right answers. It is a book about being carried when you have none.

For anyone standing in the in-between - uncertain, grieving, or simply wondering if joy will ever return - Diana's story offers what she was given: not an explanation, but a presence.

He still meets you exactly where you are.