July Book Recommendations
Episode description
Podcast Info
Title: Freedom From Diet & Spiritual Freedom
Total time: 18:59
Release date: July 30th, 2021
Summary:
Each month Danielle is going to recommend a book for you and a book for your kids and explain how the books can enhance your life. This month Danielle focuses on books that discuss Freedom, that is spiritual freedom and freedom from diets.
You’ll hear:
- The power of reading to nourish your mind - How finding stories that connect to you on a personal level can move you to growth in no other way
- About books that deal with all kinds of literal and figurative chains
- How everyone is worthy of freedom
- How humans were created to crave
- How it is important to discuss slavery
- How reading can open roads to difficult conversations with your children
Book 1: Made to Crave, Lisa Terkeurst
Quotes about food and God:
“I’ve realized when the desire for treats is triggered by difficult emotions, it’s not really desire for treats - it’s a thinly veiled attempt at self-medication” (130).
“Of all things lost and gained, the courage to repent might just be the most significant for me”(182).
“One wise choice can lead to two, can lead to three, can lead to a thousand, can lead to the sweet place of utter dependence on God and lasting discipline” ( 175).
Book 2: Chains, Laurie Halse Anderson
Quotes about slavery and freedom:
“It wasn’t right for one body to own another or pull strings to make them
jump” (51).
“To distract the beast in my gullet, I tried to read the names of the books on the
shelves without turning my head. My eyes were as starved for words as the rest of me was for dinner” (59).
“Momma said we had to fight the evil inside us by overcoming it with goodness. She said it was a hard thing to do, but it made us worthy” (281).
Important links from the today’s show:
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
Made to Crave by Lysa TerKeurst
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