Title: Your Heart’s
Desire
Author: Sheri Rose
Shepherd
Pages: 211
Year: 2012
Publisher: Tyndale
Note: I received a
complimentary copy in exchange for an honest review. Follow my other reviews at http://seekingwithallyurheart.blogspot.com/ and on twitter @lcjohnson1988
The
author, Sheri Rose Shepherd, is sold out for God. In this enlightening resource book, she gives
advice, encouragement, and hope for women’s relationships with men from a godly
stance through stories from her own life.
She also intersperses some very short fictional stories as well to make
a point. Each chapter contains Scripture
at the beginning and end, a specific topic for that chapter, a prayer regarding
the topic, some advice or “coaching” about the topic, and a fictional love
letter to the reader from God. The book
is very easy to read and the chapters are not too long. Her writing style is easy to understand as well.
Sheri shares from her own painful
past and choices she has made with the resultant consequences in order to show
God’s ability to heal and use pain for profit.
She tells how blessed she has been when in times of pain or difficulty
she has surrendered to God and trusted Him to direct the outcome. The topics covered are relevant to women
today in their interactions with men.
She challenges women to love their
men the most when they least deserve it…just like the Lord does for us. Another challenge she issues is that “even if
our men have given us every reason to give up on our relationships with them,
we must not give up our God-appointed position of influence in their
lives.” There are other topics discussed
that will make the reader think about their own relationships. She states, “Our lives may not be the ones we
have longed for, but the greatest testimony is not how we started but how we
finish.”
There is something in this book for
women who are single, married or divorced.
Sheri does a good job of showing women that their place is as a helpmate
to their husbands, which doesn’t mean doormat.
Husbands are the captains of the ship, but wives are the radar she says.
Above all else, God is to always be the
center of our lives and to have communication with Him regularly so we can have
a deep, abiding relationship with Him.
She reminds women that they are creating a legacy by how they live their
lives for the next generations, whether good or bad. What kind of legacy will you leave
behind?
My Rating for this book is four
stars.
