Restless: Because you were made for more! Review of Jeannie Allen's book

Restless!! That is a good word for how I feel some days. I feel like there is something about my life with Christ that seems off at times because I'm still searching (which may be a life long process). In Jeannie's new book, she lets me know that I'm not alone in feeling like this. Her book is divided into three parts: The Call, The Threads, and Living on Purpose. Each sections has chapters that are great about looking at each of these parts to help build the big picture.

A favorite quote from the book for me is: "There is a time and a place to search for our unique parts in God's story...but...here is my admonition: Respond to the need you see. Right now." (p35)
We need to make sure we ask God for what he wants in our lives and listen to that so that we can find our call and hopefully quit the cycle of feeling restless.I am going to recommend this for my women's group I think it would be awesome to work though this with others so we can all grow and learn together about the purpose God has for each of us.

Book Description

A practical plan to identify the threads of your life and how to intentionally weave them together for God's glory and purposes.
Restless explores the fact that God has called each of us to do great things in his name, and then helps us discover what that might mean for each of us individually. Jennie says, "We are called to dream but we're afraid to. But because we are called, when we don't act on it we become restless—restless to find purpose, to make a difference in the world, to matter."
Jennie doesn't suggest women add one more thing to their to-do list, but instead invites them to stop and listen where they are. She frees them to be themselves and to see themselves as valuable. In addition to this permission to dream she helps them get over themselves and their issues and then offers a simple process on highly designed journal pages to identify the raw materials—the unique threads—they've been given by digging into five areas:

• Gifts
• Suffering
• Places
• People
• Passions

Using her own story and that of women with whom she has walked through this process as examples, Jennie weaves in the story of Joseph the dreamer and how God used his threads to fit into the greater story of God. Untangling the threads of our lives and assembling them together in one place reveals a beautiful plan designed by the Creator himself: God's Agenda + my threads + the need + the Holy Spirit = my purpose
And since living out our purpose is often filled with uncertainties Jennie addresses the doubts, fears, and challenges that hold women back from what they've been called to do. This repositioning of their lives is not a promise that all things will be perfect, or will go perfectly, but a promise that it will be the start of the best part of life—the part that completes what we were made for.

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