The Gift of Limitations

Finding Beauty in Your Boundaries

By: Sara Hagerty

Narrated by: Sara Hagerty

Read by the author.

"It's all too much." (You can't do everything. And you weren't made to do everything.)

For anyone who feels overwhelmed and unfulfilled. For anyone buried under mountains of laundry and fielding too many bills. For those with too many appointments and too many open tabs in your browser. For those of us who go to bed exhausted, too tired to enjoy a few minutes with our thoughts, and resenting our limitations, bestselling author Sara Hagerty offers a lifeline of hope and the possibility of peace.

What if your greatest weaknesses are your doorway to rich intimacy with God? What if your limitations are, in fact, your greatest gift?

With poetic voice, gentle validation, and deep spiritual insights, Sara will help you see how the boundaries of your life circumstances—your limitations—can bring about spiritual growth and satisfaction you'd never experience otherwise. The Gift of Limitations will help you explore how to:

• Recognize when you are pushing yourself too far and find your way back to realistic expectations of yourself.
• Discover how God sees weakness, in His Word, and how He has used the weaknesses of His people throughout all of time.
• Understand what embracing your limits looks like in everyday life.
• Dream again while remaining tethered to God's best story for you.

Learn how to see the beauty and peace God provides amid all your life circumstances, and find the deep spiritual growth you can experience through your limitations--the ones that aren’t changing (the ones you once thought held you back).

Scripture references can be found in the audiobook companion PDF download.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2024 Sara Hagerty (P)2024 Zondervan

A Must Read in the Midst of Every Circumstance

I could listen to this over and over again. You will not be disappointed and will be greatly blessed by this book by Sarah Haggerty.

Honest, Refreshing, and Encouraging

Sara’s writing is like water for a thirsty soul. Learning how to embrace “what is” rather than resist it has the potential to transform one’s experience of life and limitations. So grateful for this message!

Loved this book

This book was so good. So beautifully written and relatable. It felt like every page put into words what I’ve been feeling and going through with my own limitations. It was encouraging. I needed a better rest, a surrender, understanding of the “come, die, grieve, live cycle” and that peace, “the rest of a settle soul”. I’ll definitely be rereading this book and give it all the stars (and some extra for the adoration in the audiobook).


“And I suppose it didn’t feel like much of a loss until I found it again- that deep, guttural “I need nothing more than I need You” worship- and remembered that I am most alive when I worship. Finally alive.”

Like Coffee with a Trusted Mentor

Listening to Sara’s reading of her own book is like sitting down for coffee with a trusted mentor, friend or counselor. I felt seen, known and understood without ever opening my mouth to share my own story. I felt supported by her and encouraged to endure the deepest, most painful hardships trusting that God is still good and his story for my life is far better than my own. For every mom feeling like she cannot possibly manage everything on their plate, for every women who constantly feels the burden of not having enough to give… this audio book will come as the deepest refreshment for your soul. You will be challenged to align your perspective with Gods perspective and see the beauty in our limitations. I cannot recommend this book enough and I’m so grateful it came into my life when it did.

Resonates deeply for this overwhelmed mama

A new perspective on the limitations of my life-my time, my energy, my mothering, etc.

The Cry of My Heart

This book is beautifully written and the author’s voice on the Audible makes it absolutely breathtaking. God places fences - limitations - in our lives for our good and His glory. Knowing this doesn’t make the fences easier to live with, but it becomes an opportunity to draw near - to abide.
Thank you, Sara! Even more… Thank you God. I adore you…

Amazing listen, loved having the author read it.

Loved the flow of the book, the content, the encouragement. Every chapter was resonating with my heart and soul.

Deeply refreshing and nourishing

A decade with disabling illness has forced me to face life within the limitations of my body: extremely limited energy, chronic pain, unpredictable symptoms, exorbitant medical costs and profound medical mystery. Over the past year, God has been guiding me to acceptance and a release of pursuing answers. He has taken me through the journey Sara describes as death, grief and resurrection so many times. He hasn't given me a medical miracle, but He has miraculously restored my Living Hope myriad times. This is the greater miracle. Listening to her audiobook this week has been a tremendous balm for my soul. Although our limits are vastly different, our God's desire within the fenceline is similar. This book affirmed so many moments when God has gently pried my white-knuckled fingers off broken dreams and held my heart. He has brought tremendous beauty through His presence with me and given me more than health could provide. Sara's voice through the audiobook along with her adorations made this feel like a friend holding me in a hug and God coming near us both. I highly recommend this to anyone longing for more of God, particularly in challenging situations that aren't changing.

Limitations can be a gift

Thank you Sara for your writing, like a letter to the reader, of your thoughts.
A lot of the time we see boundaries and limitations and bristle and fight but Sara helped me to see limitations to be Gods gift of love to me.

Shifted My Perspective

The author dramatically shifted my perspective to view my limitations as an invitation from the Lord to slow down and be present here and now, not to be impatient for what comes next and how soon can I get there...and not to be bitter or compare my life to anyone else's or even to my past. She does a wonderful job in getting readers to see how God is working all things for our good... being limited for a season/seasons does not equal failure. And she reminds us that there are so many other people who would wish to have the "limitations" we have. Oh how I can relate to so much of what she wrote. And I'm definitely choosing to thank God for hemming me in. Thank God for the blessing of little ones who make messes and noise and fill my day with all the "too much" lol. Whatever stage of life a reader is in, this book can inspire you and challenge you to see the current fences and limitations as the boundaries that God is setting in your life for your good and it can be a beautiful thing.