Filled with devotions of faith, encouragement, and forgiveness, Growing a Peaceful Heart by Karen Whiting and Sara DuBose will touch your heart, mind, and spirit.
In this 30-week devotional, those looking to grow in personal peace and to find peace in their relationships, learn from a series of personal, historical, and Biblical stories shared by speakers and authors dedicated to peacemaking. From all walks of life, these women offer the reader their years of wisdom to help them be whole in mind, body, and spirit.
Karen Whiting and Sara DuBose have partnered with other authors to bring you Growing a Peaceful Heart. Broken down into weekly sections, the first 11 weeks cover personal peace. The next 13 weeks discuss peace in relationships. The final weeks speak about becoming peacemakers. Each week opens with a prayer, followed by stories, and multiple peace steps for the reader are interspersed.
I have admired Whiting's work for years, and Growing a Peaceful Heart is a moving collection of stories. What I struggled with is the format. I actually felt a bit overwhelmed by the sheer amount of material. Keeping in mind, these are short devotionals and the book is not meant to be read in a few sittings, there wasn't a clear stop because all the stories ran one into the other until you got to the next week. The reader might choose to use the five "Today's Peace Step" action items found in textboxes for a break, but my preference would have fewer stories, more white space, and clearer end points.
Growing a Peaceful Heart contains stories from the heart, Scripture, and prayers to bring peace to you, to your relationships, and to help you find a way to bring peace to a fallen world.
- Publisher : AMG Publishers (October 15, 2022)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 312 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1617155780
- ISBN-13 : 978-1617155789
