What does it look like to smile while carrying a storm inside?

Pastor and nurse Anglore Chambers traces a winding road-from childhood wounds and homelessness to a complicated marriage, spiritual warfare, and the jolt of a life-altering diagnosis. Along the way, she builds a ministry from the ground up, mothers a blended family, and learns to trust God when the night lasts longer than expected.

Told with unguarded honesty and a voice steeped in prayer, The Smile Behind the Pain invites you into hospital rooms, church basements, immigration lines, and kitchen tables where faith is tested and restored. This is a memoir of resilience and redemption-of heartbreak that becomes a classroom and healing that becomes a calling.

For readers standing in hard places, this book offers practical hope: your tears are not wasted, your story still matters, and grace can gather every broken piece.

Perfect for readers of inspirational nonfiction, Christian testimony, and memoirs of perseverance, spiritual warfare, blended family life, and ministry.

What tried to break you can't define you. Let this story remind you: with Christ in the vessel, you can smile at the storm.