It’s a day to celebrate! My new book, God is For Me: A Biblical Character Study of God’s Heart for the Sexually Harmed, is released today. It was a labor of love–love for my fellow survivors who struggle to know that God sees them and cares about them. Love from God’s heart to all the survivors I have had the privilege of walking alongside over the last thirty years.
Yes, I do feel a sense of relief that the work is done. The writing might be done, but the work is never really done. As one of my launch team members said at our launch party last night, “Sexual harm isn’t going anywhere.” There will always be more victims, more survivors, more hearts in need of healing. Praise God that Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and is able to heal.
It is a day of celebration and reflection. I’ll have some time to reflect on all of this tomorrow as I fly from coast to coast. Today I am celebrating both the release and the relief. Please buy a copy of the book. If not for you, for someone else. I can guarantee there is someone in your life who has suffered harm. They just might share that with you one day, and you can offer them hope with this study. Survivors who have read it have already told me they see themselves in the stories of the biblical characters. And they see that God’s heart if FOR them.
Join me in asking God’s blessing on this work and to heal the brokenness in those who will read it.
Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call. This I know, that God is for me. (Psalm 56:9 ESV)
You can learn more about the book in this podcast
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