Great Book
Looking for a Christmas gift for a special woman in your life? I would like to recommend Faithful Women and Their Extraordinary God by Noel Piper. This is a wonderul book that includes five short biographies of five women who lived lives faithful to God. I love to read biographies as I find that I can learn more from them than many books about “Christian living”. This book is especially great in that it offers short glimpses into each woman’s life and is not as exhaustive (or sometimes exhausting) as most biographies. At the end of each biography, Noel Piper takes a few pages to draw out lessons we can learn about God and our walks with Him. I appreciated this as it helps the reader to think more about what was just read, rather than just enjoying a story. She also dedicates each chapter to a person with the same qualities of the woman she wrote about in the chapter.
She writes about Sarah Edwards (faithful in the mundane), Lilias Trotter (faithful in weakness), Gladys Aylward (faithful in humility), Esther Ahn Kim (faithful in suffering), and Helen Roseveare (faithful in loss). Each woman walked through times of mundaneness, weakness, humility, suffering and/or loss and gives us valuable lessons we can take away. I enjoyed reading about Esther Ahn Kim and Helen Roseveare, women who are not as widely known, but who perserevered through much and had great faith. Thanks Sally for letting me borrow it.