You know her--the good girl. She's the reliable one who shows up every week at youth group wearing a purity ring and a smile. She gets good grades, makes the team, and doesn't need to be told to come home on time. But deep down she is crushed by the weight of the responsibility to be the good one, the smart one, the one who never messes up.
With the same candor and gentle spirit she showed women in Grace for the Good Girl, Emily Freeman now gives young women what they need to be free on the inside, no matter what's going on outside. Through an honest look at the roles girls play, she helps them learn to stop trying and start trusting that the Jesus who came to save them also comes to live with them, right here and now.
I can tell you plenty of good things about Emily's book [b:Grace for the Good Girl: Letting Go of the Try-Hard Life|10644422|Grace for the Good Girl Letting Go of the Try-Hard Life|Emily P. Freeman|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1340762220s/10644422.jpg|15553273] and when I heard about a review opportunity for a new book I jumped into it not even really looking at the book subject. [b:Graceful (for Young Women): Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life|13789008|Graceful (for Young Women) Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life|Emily P. Freeman|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1349077539s/13789008.jpg|19422865] is an echo of things I remember reading in Grace for the Good Girl, but they are written for a younger audience with more mention of school and college and jobs than motherhood and marriage as in the original book. However, as someone who has read both books, there are different details in each that make both a worthy read. Graceful is about the voices within that allow us to hide from who we can be in Christ, while Grace for the Good Girl is about masks. I am not exactly the "young woman" that this book is written for as I'm married with two children already, but it was not long ago that I was and the words in this book still speak strongly to me and where I am.
Apparently I'm a dreamer, and I never really realized it. Emily has a way with her books that really gets you into thinking and I know that her words are in the right direction, because with the first book and again with this one it is shocking how hard and fast the enemy seems to attack. My book is all marked up with tons of things outlined here and there. There is so "much" in this little book and I really recommend it.
*Thanks to Revell for providing a copy for review.*
scheduled: http://creativemadnessmama.com/blog/2012/11/04/graceful-for-young-women-by-emily-p-freeman/
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