“Jessie Buckley won an Oscar, but it couldn’t heal her heart — the powerful truth every Christian woman needs to hear”

Reflecting on Jessie Buckley’s journey through struggle and success, writer Jenny Sanders shows how performance became both her escape and a path toward healing. She ultimately points readers toward a deeper refuge in God, where lasting strength and peace can be found beyond any stage or spotlight.

The Oscars are over for another year and now we have the opportunity to either scurry around catching up on the latest film award-winners, or wait until they come up on one of the screening platforms so we can stay at home and watch them in our PJs.

The big winner this year was Jessie Buckley.  As predicted, she won the coveted Oscar for Best Actress in the much publicised film, Hamnet, directed by (already) Award Winning director Chloé Zhao.  The movie is based on Maggie O’Farrell’s fiction novel of the same name which explores the death of Shakespeare’s son in 1596.  At the age of eleven, young Hamnet’s sister, Judith caught the plague but he was the one who lay next to her and lost his life. The ensuing grief of both his parents focuses on the consequential strain in their relationship and how that loss influenced William’s writing of Hamlet.