Hello Bookish Friends :)
I hope you're all doing well, and I hope you're all having a great summer.
Mine has been crazy busy to say the least, but that's always the case for me when it comes to summer. Unfortunately, summer is our busiest time of the year at work, and as such, I don't have a lot of free time to truly enjoy it.
Thankfully, the busy season will be starting to slow down in the coming weeks, and then hopefully I'll have much more time for blogging and bookstagram.
Today I'd like to share a book review with you all for a Christian non-fiction title that really impacted how I view femininity, the future, and living a purpose filled life. I hope it'll inspire all of you the way that it did me!
Girl Defined by Kristen Clark and Bethany Baird:
Source: Library
Publisher: Baker Books
Publication Date: May 17th, 2016
Genre: Christian Non-Fiction/Christian Living
Synopsis:
In a Culture of Distortions, Discover God-Defined Womanhood and Beauty
In a culture where airbrushed models and career-driven women define beauty and success, it's no wonder we have a distorted view of femininity. Our impossible standards place an incredible burden of stress on the backs of women and girls of all ages, resulting in anxiety, eating disorders, and depression. One question we often forget to ask is this: What is God's design for womanhood?
In Girl Defined, sisters and popular bloggers Kristen Clark and Bethany Baird offer women a countercultural view of beauty, femininity, and self-worth. Based firmly in God's design for their lives, this book helps women rethink what true success and beauty look like. It invites them on a liberating journey toward a radically better vision for femininity that ends with the discovery of the kind of hope, purpose, and fulfillment they've been yearning for.
Girl Defined helps readers
- discover God's design for femininity and his definition of a successful woman
- uncover the secrets of lasting worth, purpose, and fulfillment
- be equipped and empowered to live out a radically better vision for womanhood
- gain personal insight through the chapter-by-chapter study guide
(synopsis from goodreads)
My Review:
It's the utmost truth that it's never been more confusing to be a female than it is today. Society is filled with a million different ideals on what it means to be a woman, what it means to be perfect, and what every female should strive to want to be like. However, the quest to try and be what society expects us to be correspondingly leads to depression, anxiety and unhappiness. If those ideals were truly the basis for femininity, wouldn't accomplishing them lead to happiness instead of the opposite.
In Girl Defined, Kristen Clark and Bethany Baird attack the assumptions behind these stereotypes, and showcase that no matter what society may try and tell us, staying true to the ideals and promises outlined in the scriptures is where the true femininity ideals emerge.
In a world where selfishness and entitlement have come to be expected, Kristen and Bethany showcase the importance of putting God first in everything we do, and striving to live by the Biblical standard of femininity, instead of the societal standard. God created women to have a special purpose, and we need to acknowledge and recognize that fact in our walk with Him.
While this book may have been intended for more of the high school/college age set, I found it applied to many parts of my life as a married gal in my early thirties as well. In this day and age, I found it refreshing to see two young women who are on fire for God, and are determined to share with others the importance of living for Him, and serving Him.
Girl Defined was a truly eye opening experience for me, and it changed the way I looked at a lot of relationships and attitudes I have in my life. I completely recommend this to every Christian woman out there, and I look forward to continuing on with the other books currently available by these authors.
Final Rating: 5/5
I highly recommend this one!
Thanks so much for reading guys! Have a great rest of your day, and I hope to see you back here soon!
This is not a sponsored post. All thoughts and opinions are my own. The photo does not belong to me, and all rights to the respective owners.
I hope you're all doing well, and I hope you're all having a great summer.
Mine has been crazy busy to say the least, but that's always the case for me when it comes to summer. Unfortunately, summer is our busiest time of the year at work, and as such, I don't have a lot of free time to truly enjoy it.
Thankfully, the busy season will be starting to slow down in the coming weeks, and then hopefully I'll have much more time for blogging and bookstagram.
Today I'd like to share a book review with you all for a Christian non-fiction title that really impacted how I view femininity, the future, and living a purpose filled life. I hope it'll inspire all of you the way that it did me!
Girl Defined by Kristen Clark and Bethany Baird:
Source: Library
Publisher: Baker Books
Publication Date: May 17th, 2016
Genre: Christian Non-Fiction/Christian Living
Synopsis:
In a Culture of Distortions, Discover God-Defined Womanhood and Beauty
In a culture where airbrushed models and career-driven women define beauty and success, it's no wonder we have a distorted view of femininity. Our impossible standards place an incredible burden of stress on the backs of women and girls of all ages, resulting in anxiety, eating disorders, and depression. One question we often forget to ask is this: What is God's design for womanhood?
In Girl Defined, sisters and popular bloggers Kristen Clark and Bethany Baird offer women a countercultural view of beauty, femininity, and self-worth. Based firmly in God's design for their lives, this book helps women rethink what true success and beauty look like. It invites them on a liberating journey toward a radically better vision for femininity that ends with the discovery of the kind of hope, purpose, and fulfillment they've been yearning for.
Girl Defined helps readers
- discover God's design for femininity and his definition of a successful woman
- uncover the secrets of lasting worth, purpose, and fulfillment
- be equipped and empowered to live out a radically better vision for womanhood
- gain personal insight through the chapter-by-chapter study guide
(synopsis from goodreads)
My Review:
It's the utmost truth that it's never been more confusing to be a female than it is today. Society is filled with a million different ideals on what it means to be a woman, what it means to be perfect, and what every female should strive to want to be like. However, the quest to try and be what society expects us to be correspondingly leads to depression, anxiety and unhappiness. If those ideals were truly the basis for femininity, wouldn't accomplishing them lead to happiness instead of the opposite.
In Girl Defined, Kristen Clark and Bethany Baird attack the assumptions behind these stereotypes, and showcase that no matter what society may try and tell us, staying true to the ideals and promises outlined in the scriptures is where the true femininity ideals emerge.
In a world where selfishness and entitlement have come to be expected, Kristen and Bethany showcase the importance of putting God first in everything we do, and striving to live by the Biblical standard of femininity, instead of the societal standard. God created women to have a special purpose, and we need to acknowledge and recognize that fact in our walk with Him.
While this book may have been intended for more of the high school/college age set, I found it applied to many parts of my life as a married gal in my early thirties as well. In this day and age, I found it refreshing to see two young women who are on fire for God, and are determined to share with others the importance of living for Him, and serving Him.
Girl Defined was a truly eye opening experience for me, and it changed the way I looked at a lot of relationships and attitudes I have in my life. I completely recommend this to every Christian woman out there, and I look forward to continuing on with the other books currently available by these authors.
Final Rating: 5/5
I highly recommend this one!
Thanks so much for reading guys! Have a great rest of your day, and I hope to see you back here soon!
This is not a sponsored post. All thoughts and opinions are my own. The photo does not belong to me, and all rights to the respective owners.
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