Small Acts of Grace, Alice Gray

Book review: I got this book as a Graduation gift and when I first got I was like huh? "is she trying to tell me something?" But as I started reading it I realized even if she was I didnt care because I really enjoyed the book. I read chapter a day. I love that at the end of every chapter are discussion questions/or for you to journal about. I journaled all my answers and it really made me think about things. There are some simple ways to show acts of grace. I recommend this book to all women.

Book Synopsis: Among the many wondrous ways of a woman is the inborn desire to make a difference in the world. For as long as she can remember there has been a deep longing to nurture, comfort, help, teach, and bless those around her. A woman's dreams can be as magnificent as training a child, as lofty as launching a corporation, as gentle as wrapping her arms around someone in need, or as innovative as a little girl opening a lemonade stand to raise money for charity.
In Treasures for Women Who Make a Difference, best-selling author Alice Gray helps women celebrate the joy in touching someone else's life with help and hope. At the same time it is a guide for those still looking for their path of purpose. courtesy of Amazon.com

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Praying through life's problems, Stormie Omartian and other women

Book Review: I was a little worried about reading this book, because I have read alot of self-help books and I just get really bored with them really fast, but this book I wanted to finish reading. Reading the stories that these Godly women wrote and what the faced made me really think about my own life, and that my struggles are not as bad as some of theirs. Even these women had a hard time with focusing on the Lord in their times of trouble, but they all showed me many ways that I can rely on the Lord and come back to His faithfulness. We may think that He is not there, but He always is and is waiting patiently for us to talk to Him.

Book Synopsis: When the pain of life hits, where do you go with it?
Praying Through Life's Problems urges you to take your suffering to the One who numbers the hairs on our heads and gives us our very life and breath. Offering transformational messages from Stormie Omartian, Joni Eareckson Tada, Leslie Vernick, Catherine Hart Weber, Dr. Joseph and Mary Ann Mayo, Linda S. Mintle, and Diane Langberg, this book will help you stay on course and stay connected to God when hard times come.
From praying through every situation that arises, to developing a healthy body image and working through both the wounds of the past and the fears of the future, this book offers page after page of gentle hope. Hope that will whisper God's love to your soul as He calls you to an extraordinary trust in Him. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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The Relief of Imperfection, For Women Who Try Too Hard to Make It Just Right, Joan C. Webb

Book Review: I bought this book when I first started my membership with Crossings. I have read it. I really did not enjoy it, but maybe it is because I do not strive to make everything just right. If you are a women that is a perfectionist and have to have everything perfect or your day just does not go right unless it is perfect then this is a great book for you to read.

Book Synopsis: Dear Lord, I pray that all limitations, weaknesses, defects, pain, hurt, mistakes, embarrassment, and imperfection in my personal and public life, relationships and circumstances be eliminated. This book is for any woman who has ever prayed this prayer or for the one who has even thought it. Joan Webb, a self-proclaimed recovering perfectionist, knows how hard it is for determined and caring women to step into the relief of imperfection. And yet, this is exactly what God wants for us. The Relief of Imperfection encourages the reader to believe the truth about God, others, herself and her reality, thus eventually releasing her from the pursuit of perfection to relax in the relief of imperfection. Webb provides real-life stories, including how Jesus lived in the midst of imperfect surroundings, to show that it is OK with God to cease trying to appear perfect and have all the right answers all the time. Readers will find permission to stop pretending and start enjoying authentic, intimate relationships with others, with themselves and with God. Courtesy of Amazon.com

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Loving Your Man Without Losing Your Mind, Susie Davis

Book Review: Is an awesome book to read if you want to know a little more about how your husband thinks and reacts to certain things. Gives some good insight on how we as wives should treat our husbands. I thought it was a really good book, I read it in a day and a half.

Book Synopsis: Why is marriage so much harder than anyone ever dared to imagine? And how could the one man that a woman loves most in the world end up becoming the one person that she struggles to live in harmony with? In Loving Your Man Without Losing Your Mind, Susie Davis delivers biblical perspective and practical application intended to open the door for a woman to love her man with an abundance of understanding and grace. Using humor and wise insights, Susie equips wives to contribute to their marriages beyond their wildest expectations creating an atmosphere in which, with the help of God, they realize the marriage of a lifetime. Exploring all the biggies where conflict and problems in marriage are concerned, this book also reminds women to remember often why they married their spouse. Loving Your Man Without Losing Your Mind is the companion at a woman s side to offer straight talk, encouragement, laughter and hope for loving the man of her dreams her husband. Synopsis courtesy of Amazon.com

You can purchase this book at http://www.amazon.com/Loving-Your-Without-Losing-Mind/dp/0830743715