I don't know why I seem to be reading so many Joyce Meyer books lately, but as I look back over my reading list for the past few years, I have read quite a few of her books. She just has some books that I've wanted to read. I'm probably not done reading books by her, but I'm not choosing her books necessarily on purpose. With that being said, I do always receive a lot of great insight when I read books by Joyce Meyer and BEAUTY FOR ASHES is no different. If I could, I would go through and highlight her the passages/words/phrases that stood out for me throughout this book.
The only problem I have with BEAUTY FOR ASHES--if "problem" is the right word--it isn't, but I can't think of anything better that fits right now--is that Meyer focuses this book on victims of physical abuse. Because I am not really a victim of abuse, that part of the book kind of got in the way for me, but that is not to say that
the book isn't valuable even for those who have not suffered abuse. It's just that abuse is the basis for everything she discusses in this particular book.
I look forward to the day when God will "give [me] joy instead of mourning, a garment of praise instead of a heavy, burdened and failing spirit, and beauty instead of ashes" (Isaiah 61:3).
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