With this book, Jenifer Foxworthy shows how our freedom from shame may lie in the one place we are avoiding.

From her first painful and shame-filled encounter with confession as a young girl in the Greek Orthodox Church, to decades of avoiding the sacrament altogether, Jenifer James Foxworthy believed she could never truly be worthy of God's forgiveness. In Finding Love in the Confessional the author takes us on a deeply personal journey into the heart of God's mercy.

After the tragic death of her twenty-two-year-old son, Jenifer goes on a pilgrimage to Medjugorje in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

"I wasn't looking for a miracle," she writes. "I was just looking for something real. And I found it in the one place I was avoiding...confession."

Blending personal stories, biblical truth, and honest reflections on the fears and misunderstandings that keep us from God's mercy, Jenifer invites readers to see confession not as a place of judgment, but as a doorway to healing, freedom, and intimacy with Christ. Whether you are Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, or simply searching, this book will help you understand why Jesus gave us this sacrament, and how it can transform your life.

Finding Love in the Confessional is a testimony of God's mercy, Mother Mary's gentleness, and what it means to walk in love-even through sorrow, even through sin, even through silence. This book is for anyone longing to lay down the burdens they've carried too long, to hear the words of absolution, and to walk away feeling light, forgiven, and loved beyond measure.

Like her first book, Are You There, Mary?, in this book Jenifer writes with a calm presence and refreshing perspective as she takes us on her journey of finding love in the confessional. It's a story of returning to the sanctuary and rituals of the Catholic church-and it's even more of a story about returning to the sanctuary of self.
Betsy B. Murphy
Author of Grief, Glimmers, Grace