Jaime Leigh’s Reviews > Tending the Wild Garden: Growing in the Fruit of the Spirit > Status Update

Just got through "goodness". TW for Rape mentioned with post-event detail and death by AIDS

Reading this slowly with my Bible study group. Actually really really like it. However, sometimes I feel like the examples are too triggering to be effective for the reader (see the happiness chapter which was freaking horrifying). The author has a tendency to pivot in a way that's jarring, like pivoting from "we must embrace kindness" to "not embracing kindness leads to things like the mass murder of children".

Just finished the chapter on Peace for our Bible Study. Really enjoy Gamble's writing and also her consistent ties back to therapy and neuroscience. Did think that her examples in the Joy chapter were incredibly triggering though.