Satisfied: Why Getting What We Want Is Not the Answer - Softcover

Treu, Hadassah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1963377923 ISBN 13: 9781963377927

Publisher: Abundance Books LLC, 2026

Synopsis

You prayed. You trusted. You believed it would happen. But what if it doesn't?

Hadassah Treu thought she knew what would make her life complete: a loving marriage, motherhood, health, and the future she had carefully imagined. Instead, the years brought marital distance, infertility, panic attacks, painful medical treatments, and the lingering consequences of a decision she desperately wished she could undo.

As one hope after another slipped beyond her control, Hadassah faced a question she could no longer avoid: Is God still good when he does not give us what we want?

In Satisfied, Hadassah tells the deeply personal story of a marriage strained by grief and disappointment, a consuming longing to become a mother, and a faith tested when prayer seemed to produce anything but the expected answer. Her journey leads through anger, forgiveness, surrender, and the difficult discovery that even a good desire can become the place where we look for the satisfaction only God can provide.

But surrender does not mean the end of longing. For Hadassah, it becomes the beginning of something larger: healing in her marriage, a new understanding of motherhood and fruitfulness, and a life no longer dependent on circumstances going according to plan.

Honest about disappointment without offering easy answers, Satisfied is for anyone who has prayed faithfully, waited hopefully, and wondered what to do when the answer still seems to be no.

When the life you wanted is not the life you receive, can you still discover that what you have is enough?

About this title

About the Author

Hadassah Treu is an award-winning bilingual author, blogger, poet, and speaker whose work explores faith, suffering, hope, and spiritual growth. She is the author of Draw Near: How Painful Experiences Become a Birthplace of Blessings and has contributed to fourteen devotional and poetry anthologies. Her writing has appeared on more than eighty faith-based platforms, including The Upper Room, (in)courage, Her View From Home, and Proverbs 31 Ministries' COMPEL Pro Blog. A communication specialist and translator with a master's degree in international relations, Hadassah lives in Bulgaria.

Edition details

• Publisher: Abundance Books LLC
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1963377923
• ISBN 13: 9781963377927
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288