04/22/2024
Bestseller Roberts (All Hope Is Found) extends a sincere invitation for Christian women to “tap into the courage to live authentically.” Addressing those who’ve “lost” their power, Roberts encourages readers to identify the fears and limiting beliefs that once provided a sense of safety but now serve only to constrain. Replacing such notions with “a stronger, more powerful belief” in God’s love regardless of circumstance will pave the way for one’s truest self to emerge, she asserts. Later chapters detail how readers can access their true desires and trust that they are worthy of achieving them. Drawing from her own experience, Roberts recalls how she learned to “see beyond what I think about my messy insides and to dare to believe that where I see mess God sees material.” While it’s not always clear how readers should verify that their goals, once uncovered, will mesh with God’s plans (“If there’s something you want that is not aligned with what God has for you, He will teach you how to not want it any longer”), Roberts’s solid mix of spiritual insight and personal anecdote yields valuable reassurance that being oneself and being faithful can be mutually reinforcing. Christians who feel unmoored will welcome this. (Apr.)
