There's little doubt that the world can make us hard. Chapter three, "The Walls We Build", is perhaps the clearest description of the consequences that hardness can have in our lives. The shame and the hurt that describe our modern lives -- Walsh writes of the enduring grace that brought her through them and into a richer, more beautiful experience of God's love. She writes with a clarity about her experiences that led to her hospitalization and offers insight into the deliverance of living into God's love.
She calls us to live in that love with honesty and openness before God -- refusing to embrace all the "religious bumper stickers" that are often used to describe the Christian life as a pleasant and easy life (Chapter five).
But it's the latter chapters of the book that I think are the most important. Because in the telling of her own story, Walsh helps readers let go of the pain and shame and find God's miracles in the middle of the mess.
This is an amazing book that readers -- but particularly women readers -- shouldn't miss.
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