The Story Behind My Praise: A Memoir of Loss, Redemption, and Unshakeable Faith

She Was Carried Through Every ValleySome 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. Read more