"Premortally, in the most difficult of circumstances, we stood loyally by our Father and His Son, and we did not flinch. The question for us today is: How will we do it again?"
I bought this book a few years ago and it has been sitting on my shelf. I even started it a couple of years ago and then set it aside. What was I thinking? This book was excellent and as a woman living in the last days before the Savior comes again, I really needed the messages in here that Sheri Dew shared.
It is very difficult to sum up a religious/inspirational book like this because each section and chapter has it's own theme but I was left with the feeling that what I am doing here on earth really matters; also, that women have a divine role to fulfil; that women can help the family unit in a way that no one else can; that the Savior loves me and that I can repent; and that we were not sent here to fail - even though we living in a failing world.
"As women who care about our families in particular and about the family in general, as mothers and wives, grandmothers and sisters and aunts, we no longer have the luxury of standing by and watching what is happening all around us. It is time to stand up and be counted."
About a year ago we had some missionaries over for dinner. As the conversation went on Sheri Dew's name came up and one of the elders said that he didn't get anything Sheri Dew said - that her personal experiences that she used as analogies didn't make sense to him. I remember trying very emphatically to change his mind because I have loved every book by Sheri Dew that I have read (If Life Were Easy, Then It Wouldn't Be Hard and No Doubt About It) greatly in part to her willingness to share her life (including her blunders) with the reader. Maybe it's a woman thing or maybe it's because as a woman I have had similar experiences and conclusions.
I love to hear Sheri Dew speak; I love her well-written and concise thoughts; and I love that I feel ready to take on the world one laundry pile at a time!
Sadly, I only marked about three passages in this book because I read most of it in the car loop while taking my son to preschool. I will definitely be back to reading this book again in the near future so I can mark it up and make it my own.
FIVE ***** STARS!
"If God wants a powerful people who can withstand the wiles of the devil (and He does), and if we were born to lead in these latter days (and we were), then we need to understand how God makes His power available to us, and how we gain access to that power."
2 comments:
Thanks for the recommendation! I'll have to read it sometime.
I think the Lord had to hit me in the back of the head to get me to dig deeper than I had ever dug before. It turned me to the scriptures and prayer and fasting and the temple in a different way...It changed forever, in the wonderful way, my feelings for the Savior. I tapped into power that's greater than anything in this life. I am sure that I wouldn't hav been prepared for my current church assignment without that experience. Sheri L. Dew
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