My Thoughts:
Jen Hatmaker- just seeing the name makes me smile.:) For the Love is a treasure- a book that will make you laugh out loud (in Starbucks with your 17 year old daughter), ponder your faith as well as your life (in an encouraging and constructive way) and will also touch your heart as the author has been where you are (as a woman/mom/Christian) and gets you. I loved this book almost as much as chips & salsa (super high praise- just ask my family).
Using hilariously honest stories (she's the real deal and makes no apologies. ie. She rocks) from her life, Jen Hatmaker frees us to stop the comparisons, to love fully and be ourselves. Talk about refreshing! Fashion (leggings, anyone?), cooking (book club!), parenting, the church, marriage, school, and more are covered in a humorous way with a wonderful message. Did I mention I love this book? I need to buy copies for all my besties so they can laugh, love and be blessed as much as I was while reading this. Thanks, Jen Hatmaker. I wonder if Simon Le Bon would've followed me on twitter, too- back in the day. ;)
Book Description
The popular writer, blogger, and television personality reveals with humor and style how Jesus' extravagant grace is the key to dealing with life's biggest challenge: people.
The majority of our joys, struggles, thrills, and heartbreaks relate to people, beginning first with ourselves and then the people we came from, married, birthed, live by, live for, go to church with, don't like, don't understand, fear, struggle with, compare ourselves to, and judge. People are the best and worst thing about the human life.
Jen Hatmaker knows this all too well, and so she reveals how to practice kindness, grace, truthfulness, vision, and love to ourselves and those around us. By doing this, For the Love leads our generation to reimagine Jesus' grace as a way of life, and it does it in a funny yet profound manner that Christian readers will love. Along the way, Hatmaker shows readers how to reclaim their prophetic voices and become Good News again to a hurting, polarized world.
* I was given a copy of this AWESOME book by Booklook bloggers in exchange for my honest opinion. No other compensation was received.*
* I was given a copy of this AWESOME book by Booklook bloggers in exchange for my honest opinion. No other compensation was received.*
Just added this to my to-read list. Thanks!
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