{"id":4363,"date":"2017-12-22T18:12:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T00:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahdamm.com\/?p=4363"},"modified":"2017-12-22T18:12:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T00:12:31","slug":"jesus-approaches-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdamm.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/22\/jesus-approaches-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Approaches Review: Learning From Women in the New Testament"},"content":{"rendered":"

If my bookshelves could talk, they would tell you of my love of books. Yes, I am a bit of a bibliophile, and I enjoy\u00a0reading a good book\u00a0with a steaming cup of tea. And while I have read many good books over the years, very few enter the category of \u201cbest books.\u201d You know the ones. The books that are more highlighted than not, the ones you return to again and again, the ones you praise from the rooftops. When a book like that comes around, I can\u2019t put it down, but I also don\u2019t want it to end.<\/p>\n

This fall, I read such a book, and it has earned a prominent spot on my list of \u201cbest books.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jesus Approaches\u00a0Review<\/h3>\n

\"Jesus<\/a>Jesus Approaches: What Contemporary Women Can Learn about Healing, Freedom & Joy from the Women of the New Testament<\/em><\/a>\u00a0is the newest book by Catholic author and speaker, Elizabeth (Liz) Kelly. In it, she writes lovingly and directly to the woman\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n

In each chapter, Liz shares familiar stories of New Testament women who encounter Jesus in a very personal way. And through their encounters, Jesus heals, transforms, and sets them free to flourish. She also incorporates moving accounts from her own life and stories of women she has met along the way. Throughout the narrative, Liz writes with an openness, honesty, and vulnerability that few books contain.<\/p>\n

Jesus Approaches<\/em>\u00a0begins with the story of St. Mary Magdalene. Liz expands on her possible life before encountering Christ and on how her life blossoms fully and completely after Jesus heals her \u2013 so much so that He appears to her after the Resurrection!<\/p>\n

Healing and Restoration<\/h3>\n

From the story of Magdalene, Liz draws readers into a conversation about the reality of the deep and painful wounds we experience throughout life. She is courageous enough to share her own story of woundedness and the process of healing through which Jesus led her.<\/p>\n

She goes on to explain that in order to heal, we need to completely surrender our wounds to Jesus, and that can be hard.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt can be the hardest thing when intuitively it should be the easiest\u2026 Our pain is precious to us\u2026 It defines us and marks us and tells us what matters. And to let it go can feel like saying, \u2018This doesn\u2019t matter to me anymore.\u2019 But that\u2019s not what Jesus is asking. He is not asking us to let go of our identity or to deny what is precious to us or to say that our pain is unimportant\u2026 Instead, he is asking us to give him this most precious pain so he may put comfort in its place. He is asking us to anchor our identity in him, he who is able to redeem all pain, make it worthy, powerful, transformative, a force for good in the world and in us, to give it a proper and eternal horizon.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From a place of pain, Jesus meets us and calls us by name, just like He did with Magdalene. And from that place \u201che draws us into the fullness of our true identity as redeemed by the resurrected one.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the book openly discusses the reality of suffering\u2014because we all experience it in some form or another\u2014Jesus Approaches is profoundly hopeful. Liz even lends readers her hope, when ours may seem diminished. \u201cIf your hope has vanished, you can borrow mine.\u201d<\/p>\n

To read the rest of my review of\u00a0Jesus Approaches<\/em>, please visit the Blessed Is She blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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