It's All About Him: Finding the Love of My Life
by Denise Jackson
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Author: Denise JacksonContributor: Ellen Vaughn
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-07-31
ISBN: 0785227768
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Book Reviews of It's All About Him: Finding the Love of My Life
Book Review: It *is all about Him.
Summary: 5 Stars
When I first heard about this book by Denise Jackson, wife of country superstar, Alan, I thought it was just some sappy celebrity wife talking up her fairy-tale romance with her celebrity husband. Rags to riches, rise from nothing to material super abundance, Stand by Your Man drama, where a woman belittles or martyrs herself for some adulterous lout, does not appeal to me. What kind of a title is "It's All about Him", anyway? I couldn't believe any woman would be so self-deprecating, so much at loss for her own identity, to say that her world completely revolved around her husband...and then broadcast it to the world. I couldn't have been more wrong.
I'm a book snob. There was no way I planned on buying a book like this, one that I looked down my nose at. It wouldn't be "deep enough" for me. Pffff. Seeing a piece of an interview with Denise Jackson while I was at the gym one day started to change my mind.
Apparently, it wasn't about *him* meaning her husband... it was about Him, meaning the Lord Jesus Christ. Still, what could some celebrity wife tell me about that which I couldn't better learn from Lewis or Tozer? Upon reading another article about the book, I discovered... maybe a lot.
I ordered the book. Amazon couldn't ship it right away, so busy with reading other things, I put it out of my mind. Until it arrived yesterday. As is my usual habit, I read a few pages in the beginning, flipped to the back of the book to read then end...and read a few pages in the middle. I was floored. Here was a woman who claimed no great writing skills or powers of persuasion, and yet was digging deep into my spiritual dead spots, watering a desert wasteland, reminding me and awakening me to my developing complacency.
Denise Jackson uses a simple analogy in the back of her book that spoke volumes to me. In the chapter "Drive," she speaks of being behind the wheel of the imaginary vehicle of our life. Warning: I'm completely paraphrasing this analogy from my own perspective now: We accept Christ, and let Him come along for the ride. More often than not, we want Him in the backseat...there if we need Him, but you're still in control and not really wanting to crane your neck around to listen to His backseat driving. So life happens, maybe you wake up a bit and realize...you do NEED Him. You start studying the Word and you realize you want more, you need more of Him. You invite Him to move on up to the passenger seat, where He can sit alongside you and hold the map for you. You choose the direction you want to head and you expect Jesus to guide you along the best route. You expect Him to steer you clear of any bumpy or difficult roads and provide companionship along the way. All is well and good, until the moment you realize that you can't control the vehicle. And in that fear is where you find freedom - like in Carrie Underwood's song, you cry out "Jesus, Take the Wheel." That involves more than just letting Him drive you out of a difficult situation...it involves giving up control and letting Him choose the direction. It's a place of complete trust where you believe that the destination He has in mind for you is far better than any destination that you could choose yourself, even if the roads do seem to twist and turn and the ride isn't always smooth and easy.
In this book, I was startled to find a very real woman with some of the same insecurities and issues that I deal with daily - who professed faith in Christ yet made some of the same mistakes I've made. A woman who thought she understood faith, suddenly discovered the greatest love of all - she found that having everything and having nothing are the same, because if you don't have a love affair with Christ, life is empty. It's a love story about the only love that matters and about that Someone who loves you so completely, no matter who you are, what you have or what you've done.
And to shame my inner snob - she quotes Lewis, Tozer, Philip Yancey... and more importantly the Word of God. It's a book about forgiveness, about restoration, about revelation. It's about what real happiness is and the only way it can be obtained.
Summary of It's All About Him: Finding the Love of My Life
Written by Denise Jackson, with co-writer Ellen Vaughn, this inspirational book gives the reader an all-access look into one of country music's most famous couples: their love story, struggles, dreams, success, the near-failure of their marriage, and the rediscovery of their faith and how that has dramatically shaped their lives.Christian Living Books
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