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About And She Got Up: Shattered by Loss, Restored by Jesus

• Publisher: Thomas Nelson (March 3, 2026)
• Paperback: 224 pages

Faced with an unimaginable loss, Courtney Pray Duke invites you to discover that when life knocks you down, Jesus is nearer than ever, reaching out to help you get back up and stand strong.

Have you found yourself wondering, Will I ever be able to make sense of the disappointments and disasters I’ve endured? Can I trust God with my pain? Will my life ever be restored? Perhaps you’ve done everything you can to rebuild the ruins of your life, but true restoration still seems so far off, if not impossible. And She Got Up is a firsthand account of being knocked down by tragedy and loss while relying on the power and presence of Jesus to rise and heal.

After being widowed at twenty-nine, Courtney Pray Duke found herself lying next to her husband’s grave feeling like she couldn’t go on. But she had three young kids who needed her and a faithful God who she knew could do anything.

Told in four sections—The Breaking, The Making, The Rising, and The Sending—Courtney walks readers through her decades long journey from devastation to the abundant life God had in store for her.

And She Got Up will help readers

• find hope in their greatest devastation through an honest and vulnerable account of Courtney’s personal journey, coupled with the reality and the truth of who God is and what He is able to do.
• move forward amid pain that can be paralyzing, helping them to believe God for their own miracle, no matter how hopeless their circumstance may seem.
• gain confidence that God is available and able to help anyone get back up and live an abundant life of hope, purpose, and peace.

God sees you now, right where you are. His heart is for you. It’s time to rise, to heal, to find purpose and joy again.

About the author

Courtney Pray Duke is an author and speaker who tragically lost her husband in a cycling accident in 2012. Left with three young children and a broken heart, Courtney now lives to tell about the goodness and faithfulness of God to the brokenhearted, and is passionate about helping women encounter the hope and victory of Jesus. She is married to Jon and is a mother to her four children, elementary to college aged. They are planted in Passion City Church and reside in Atlanta, Georgia. And She Got Up is Courtney’s first book.

 

Courtney Pray Duke was a young mother of three, a worship leader along with her loving husband Andrew, at a big church in Arkansas.  A day before Thanksgiving in 2012, her whole life came crashing down when her dear husband was struck by a bus, and killed immediately.

 

This book was so touching and so hard to read as well.  It focuses on Courtney's journey through the loss of her husband but it can be applied to any kind of loss we suffer through life.  That sudden shock, that change that turns everything from comfortable and known to terrifying and unknown, and how she overcame it as a young mother, not yet thirty years old.

 

One of the scriptures she includes in the book is one that I love, which is Psalm 71:20 "Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again;  from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up." 

 

We have all suffered loss in our lives and it feels like you're drowning in that moment, that it will never be ok, that the pain will never cease.  But when you have Jesus with you, you quickly understand that you are not alone, that He guides you, holds you up and helps you to rise again and heal.

 

If you want to learn more about their story, and how to apply Courtney's wisdom and faith to your own battle, this book is definitely for you. 

 

 

 

Thank you to TLC Book Tours and Thomas Nelson for providing me with a copy.  My thoughts and opinions are my own.