Passionate Housewives Desperate for God
by Jennie Chancey, Stacy McDonald
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Author: Jennie Chancey, Stacy McDonaldEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10-24
ISBN: 1934554154
Number of pages: 206
Publisher: The Vision Forum, Inc.
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Book Review: a heartfelt thank you to Stacy & Jennie
Summary: 5 Stars
Only moments ago I finished devouring your book "Passionate Housewives Desperate for God. " And I must thank you from the very bottom of my heart for allowing the Lord to use you ladies in my life. I am so refreshed, my vision renewed my heart re-awakened!
I was raised in a Christian home, home schooled through high school and had only the desire for marriage and raising a family, I stayed in my parent's home under my father's authority until I was 21 when my husband and I married. My hearts desire was to glorify the Lord in everything I did. We now have four sons ages 6,5,3&2 and are awaiting the adoption of our first daughter.
Until only a recently I have always found complete fulfillment in serving my family. Yet slowly the "me first" mentality began to creep into my heart. I began to feel left out as I watched other women having "mommy day's out." I began to focus my entire attention on how TIRED I was, how I never slept, never got more than 3 minutes of Bible study before I had a child decide that he needed some Tylenol on his OWN, or a good shower... In the TOILET! I began to despair, something was terribly wrong with me and it must be because I wasn't getting time off at least every other day. Homeschooling had always been my hearts desire, my dream, yet I was beginning to feel bitter at those school buses I passed on the roads, wondering why they couldn't help me out of some of my duties so that I could spend more time on the things I enjoyed.
One day I snapped, I had finally had enough of head to head battle with a three year old who was claiming that if he died I wouldn't care, I was drained to say the least, my heart was so wrapped up in ME that I couldn't see my hurting babies. I couldn't see that any and all behavior was simply them begging for my attentions to be less self centered and more servant like. In fact, I was so far focused on myself that I walked into the store that I had worked at part time before my husband and I married and had kids and stood at the counter, just battling inside the deep rooted desire to ask for my job back. My deep convictions held me back from asking, but the fact that I was willing to stand there and consider it scared me.
For years I have lamented that I wished somebody would write a Biblical book, with practical advice on the issues that moms such as myself face. When I saw this book appear on the Vision Forum website I ordered instantly, only to get an e-mail saying it was on back order and could take three weeks to ship. I actually cried over that e-mail, and cried out to the Lord for the strength to carry on. Do you know that your book arrived on my door step only two days later, the Lord knew how deeply I needed the sound Biblical advice that He used you to convey to my heart.
As I read each page my heart soared, (especially in the weary women chapter) I was reminded of the beauty of the Biblical truth that I was turning my back on. I realized the mending that needed to take place in my relationships with my sons, and the heart felt apology that my husband deserved to which he forgave instantly. I still have a dramatic three year old. I still struggle moments of selfishness. However, my heart is restored... The heart to serve my Lord by serving my husband, my children and we come into contact with. I am not spinning and toiling in my heart but rejoicing. In the beginning of the book, I related on a few levels with "Carolyn" in the first portion and by the end of the book I completely related with her final story of joy in the Lord in the midst of keeping her home. This is the very first book on motherhood/marriage that I have ever read without feeling like a failure, condemned and under the pile. Quite the opposite, and because of that and the Biblical truth within the cover I am sharing it with everybody I know.
If I could I would hug both of you and cry on your shoulders, because by being willing to allow the Lord to use you to write this book, you have been a part of restoring my ministry, my calling, my joy. I do not have to be perfect. I am covered by grace to complete this incredible task at hand, to raise up four godly young men to be servants for the Kingdom and someday I pray, a daughter to be a helper to her own husband.
From the bottom of our hearts, both my husband and I thank you.
Summary of Passionate Housewives Desperate for God
Have you struggled to reconcile God's vision of virtuous womanhood with worldly myths that marginalize and mock the role of the homemaker? Do you wrestle with cultural messages that demean the homemaker s calling and exalt instead the emotionally androgynous power-woman---the wife whose worth is measured only by the degree of her self-ambition, the shape of her body, or her money-making skills?Delightfully fresh and honest, Passionate Housewives Desperate for God debunks the modern 'desperate housewife' myth and provides fresh vision for the homemaker. Hear a former Christian feminist share how she went from a die-hard homemaker-in-training to a dedicated career woman, and then back again---after God gripped her heart. See the hollow counterfeit of whitewashed feminism and me-ology destroyed. And consider the beautiful picture painted in Scripture of the truly fulfilled homemaker who glories in the hopeful calling God created for her.
Pull up a chair, dust off the cookie crumbs, and join Jennie Chancey and Stacy McDonald as they they lay aside demeaning stereotypes like the 'Stepford wife,' and reveal the 1950s' 'perfect homemaker' trap. Laughter and tears will flow, and hopefully you will be infused with a renewed vision for victory as a wife and mother. Discover what it means to be a passionate housewife 'desperate' for God alone!
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