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You Got This: A Guide to Ditching Perfect and Showing Up to Your Real Life
What do you do when you're newlyweds with a dream to be in a band but have no money to pay for it? You sell everything you own and live out of your Jetta, selling CDs from the trunk of your car of course! From Dove Award-nominated singer/songwriter Jodi King of Love & The Outcome, comes You Got This, a devotional collection of inspiring lyrics, quotes and affirmations that capture the singer's wisdom, humor and luminous personality and connects the dots to a fulsome life lived with purpose and faith. Now a family of four, Jodi, her husband Chris, 4 year-old Milo Wolf and 2 year-old Ziggy Bear live life on the edge with Jesus at the centre as Jodi shares devotionals from the road about how to not just read your verse of the day, but live it out in real time. Recalls "Confidence isn't pretending to have it all together, it's admitting you don't, but He does. When I was on our first tour with both boys, Ziggy was 6 weeks old! I remember trying to fit into my skinny jeans, nurse a baby and run onstage and it felt like everything was falling apart. I literally cried out to God in my dressing room. In that moment, everything changed. Instead of trying to be perfect and have it all together, I let his perfect love hold me and my family together. You Got This is a page by page reminder that confidence isn't having it all together, it's letting God hold you together. As Jodi shares how to stay in love, be a wife, have kids and a career, and let go of trying to be perfect amidst it all, you will be encouraged to do the same. The key? Going from 'I got this' to 'God, I know that You got this ... Because I don't!'
112 pages, Paperback
Published October 1, 2020
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January 16, 2023
This was definitely not the book for me, but I gave it 3 stars because I think a certain subset of Christians would enjoy it and find it useful; and honestly, this book was probably written with that demographic in mind. I shouldn't have expected anything different.
I've been deconstructing my faith for many years now, and this text just doesn't meet me where I am, and I find some of the language and the tone problematic. It's a devotional made as a one-size-fits-all answer to many of life's struggles, as most devotionals are. Maybe some people want devotionals that are light and fluffy, but not me. If you are going through or have experienced radical pain and grief, this is not the book for you.
But, if you want something very surface level and enjoy CCM, you might like it. It's also very easy to read in one sitting if you have an hour to kill.
I've been deconstructing my faith for many years now, and this text just doesn't meet me where I am, and I find some of the language and the tone problematic. It's a devotional made as a one-size-fits-all answer to many of life's struggles, as most devotionals are. Maybe some people want devotionals that are light and fluffy, but not me. If you are going through or have experienced radical pain and grief, this is not the book for you.
But, if you want something very surface level and enjoy CCM, you might like it. It's also very easy to read in one sitting if you have an hour to kill.
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