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In January 2026, an ice storm rolled through Iuka, Mississippi, and stayed.
Michelle Arnold Lauer and her husband Dan lost power for seven days. Two ice-laden pines came down across their roofline. The propane ran out. Then the water stopped. Three dogs, one cat, no heat, no way to cook, no way to bathe, and a wind chill that made going outside a calculation rather than a decision.
God & Ice is the account she kept while it was unfolding, written in real time rather than in hindsight.
It is honest about the fear. It is honest about the moment her PTSD took her memory clean away while she was unpacking the car. And it is honest about something else too: the propane tank that appeared through a neighbor she barely knew, the hamburgers her husband carried home from the one open restaurant for their family and six neighbors, the freezer a stranger offered so a family would not lose their food, the friend who said bring all four pets, come on.
Every time she went looking for God in that week, something happened. Never dramatically. Never on schedule. But it
happened.
This book is for anyone in a cold season.
Maybe yours is an actual storm. Maybe it is an illness, a job loss, a grief that will not lift, or a stretch of life where prayer has started to feel like talking into an empty room.
God & Ice does not offer easy answers, and it does not tell you to be grateful faster than you are able. It offers company. It is one woman saying, plainly, that she looked for God in the worst week she had had in years and that she kept finding Him in small, ordinary, unmistakable ways.
If you have ever asked where God is, this book was written by someone who asked the same thing, out loud, in the dark,
with a tree on her roof.
Follow the journey and stay inspired with messages of faith, hope, and encouragement.
