Overview (from Goodreads): Where’s the Nearest Day Spa? Renewing the Anxious Heart offers
a fresh perspective on worries and fears. Short, easy-to-read
chapters—overflowing with humor and insightful Bible-based
encouragement—will inspire a new outlook, as you begin to embrace the
spiritual and emotional R&R that only the heavenly Father provides.
Review: Great, great book. Author Emily Smith has the fine ability to write as if she were talking directly to you, so you feel as if you were listening to her at a conference, which makes you feel so at ease and comfortable that you just don't expect what's coming.
This is one of those books that makes you look deeper into
your heart, your worries, your fears and your excuses. It’s written so lightly
and uncomplicated that it will take you by surprise. How plain and simply worry
is called a sin and fear is called its identical twin! I have to admit: I’m a
worrier; a worrier of the worst kind. The kind of worrier who worries if her
husband doesn’t answer the telephone once or twice in a row, thinking he’s been
in an accident or he is in the middle of a robbery. Yes, I think of many
ridiculous and almost implausible scenarios. And I know I’m sinning because of
it. And Where’s the Nearest Day Spa has brought this to light in my life, has
made me face it, confront it, and ask God’s forgiveness and strength to fight
it.
Many books say they can change your life. Few actually do. This
book, very unassumingly, will bring you face to face with your worries and your
fears; it will guide you through God’s Word, His promises, what He expects of
you, what He says about the futility of worrying. And that will move you to
actively make changes in your life, in your outlook of life, in the way you see
and trust in God; and it will change your life. Yes, this book will inspire you to
change your life.
Also, at the end of each chapter you will find discussion questions that will guide you through the Word of God and deeply into what He says about worry, fear, and being anxious, and what He promises to those who let go and let Him work: peace. The discussion questions are great for individual study or for a small group.
I highly recommend to this book to any woman or any group of women or church group.
Quotes I loved from the book:
"Fear feeds worry." (Soooo true!)
“[Bravery is] living with the full knowledge of God’s
sovereignty and trusting that.”
4 stars out of 5
*I received a copy of this book from Barbour Publishing through NetGalley in exchange of an honest review.
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