Unashamed

Women are not typically noted in Jewish genealogies in the Bible. Yet in the genealogy of Jesus, five women (Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba, and Mary) are mentioned. While the series A Lineage of Grace covers all five women, the book Unashamed focuses on Rahab, an unlikely inclusion. Rahab was a prostitute in Jericho who provided protection for Jewish spies. She and her family are spared in the battle of Jericho, and Rahab ends up listed in the "Hall of Faith" in Hebrews 11. Francine Rivers' fictionalized portrayal, done in her magnificent style, brings Rahab to life.

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The Prayer of Jabez

Between asking for blessings, increasing your territory, enlisting God's power, and keeping away from evil, Jabez's prayer covers a lot of ground. It is ground that all of us should cover. I would not be surprised if The Prayer of Jabez, reaches the status of a "Christian classic."

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Amazing Grace

Kathleen Norris' thoughtful reflections on familiar Christian words bring rich insight to them which will touch your soul.

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Don't Disown The Wounds Of Life

Lewis B. Smedes, A Life of Distinction, What It Takes To Live With Courage, Honesty and Gratitude, Shaw Books, Waterbrook Press, 2002, pp. 71, 72.
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Category: Spiritual Growth
ISBN: 0877886075
Keywords: culture, suffering, weakness, weeping, wounded, mourning, child, wound remains, Shaw Books, Waterbrook Press, Smedes, Lewis B. Smedes

"Our culture tells us that to carry our suffering with us is a weakness. We are made to feel a little ashamed if we go on feeling pain after the prescribed amount of weeping is done. So to escape our shame, we disown our pain. We make believe it is no longer part of us.

But we are wounded, forever wounded; and to disown our wound is to be untrue to ourselves. We cannot move on from a suffering chapter of our stories without carrying the wounds with us into the next chapter. The pain of one chapter becomes the scar of the next.

A long time ago Doris and I lost our only biological child. We suffered together. But each of also suffered alone. I raged; she accepted. But when mourning time was over, I went on as if I had left my grief behind me.

Recently I visited the small spot of ground at the end of a graveyard where we buried his small body so many years ago. I was flooded again by my old sorrow. My grief surprised me, embarrassed me. I thought it had died and left me. Where did it come from, this old sorrow?

It came from within me; it came from the the wound that had been a part of me all these years, inflicted a long time ago. The terrible pain is long gone, but the wound remains. Wounds can be reopened. All it takes is a fresh reminder. And it is honest and therefore healthy to own the wound, to let it identify us, to tell us who we are, for it is part of us forever."

SoAmazing Review: In A Life of Distinction, What It Takes To Live With Courage, Honesty and Gratitude Lewis B. Smedes has written an excellent book where he shares his heart in stories of his life and in observations of the stories of others he knows or has read about.

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