Brave Beauty

Brave Beauty is an excellent book for young girls.  It would be a great book for a girl to read on her own, it would be a better book if read with a mother or grandmother or an excellent book for a Sunday school class.

I love the way the author, Lynn Cowell, gives Biblical answers to modern day questions, concerns and issues that young ladies face (and people say the Bible is outdated).  This is such a positive book for such a negative world that these young girls are living in.  There are thought-provoking questions and self-searching suggestions after the end of each devotional.

There are 100 mini devotionals.  That's enough to get one devotional a day for more than three months.  Each devotional addresses things that young girls deal with every day (such as self-esteem and bullying, just to name a few).  If read daily, a girl could get positive encouragement each day before or after facing the negative world (in school, on social media or sadly sometimes at home even).

The mini devotionals are perfect for a girl who thinks she doesn't have a lot of time.  There are powerful messages packed in each devotional.  This could be a great jumping off point for mothers and/or grandmothers to talk to the young ladies in their lives about issues the girls are facing outside of the home.  Could be great conversation starters for families that want to draw closer to one another and to God.

If you have a young lady in your life, I would suggestion you give her this book as a gift.  A better gift would be to read it with her daily.

Get Out of That Pit

This is the first book by Beth Moore that I have read and I was not disappointed.  She knows how to take a serious subject (like sin) and find the humor in certain situations without diminishing the seriousness of sin itself.

Beth walked the reader through the ways a person can end up in a pit of sin.  She explained that God does not desire for His children to be in a pit of sin and is willing to help His children escape.  Beth gives the reader encouragement that God still loves us and provides a way to escape.  She opens the readers eyes to the hope that God is offering each and everyone of us.

At the end of the book there are thought provoking questions on each chapter.  Making it a good book to do as a weekly ladies study.  Also, at the end of the book there are prayers for  you to say daily (if you struggle with how to talk to God or not sure where to start).

I really enjoyed Beth's book.  Some of the stories she told trying to get her readers to relate to being in a pit of sin I found humorous.  I could definitely relate to some of the real life stories she told.  The scriptures she gave on how we could get out of our own pit (and we all have been in a pit some time or another whether we want to admit it or not - Romans 3:23) were inspiring and offered hope.

I found this book very helpful and encouraging, some of it serious and some of it humorous, but enjoyable as I read every page.  If you feel something amiss in your life and  you're not sure why, this book may show you what's wrong and provide hope in God for an escape.  If you know you are in a pit and don't want to dwell there this book is for you.  If you are in a pit and are not even sure how you got there much less how to get out, Beth will shine a light for you and point you in God's direction.  She even has suggestions on how not to get back in that and/or other pits of sin that Satan is setting for you.