Stay by Anjuli Paschall

Anjuli Paschall invites you to stop running from your pain and to discover that the deep end of your story is the way to intimacy with Christ. She extends a daring invitation to stay with your everyday aches, your guilt, your loneliness, your anger, your anxiety, your longings, and even your apathy. True power and transformation are found in the very places we resist the most.It's here, in the staying, where we move from merely knowing in our heads that God loves us to believing it in our hearts. Stay is an invitation to sit with God at the table of your soul--and be free.

I LOVED this book! I started reading the book and after two chapters, I went back the beginning and started over with pencil in hand to take notes. Never have I read a Christian women's non-fiction book where I felt so seen, understood, encouraged and challenged. Paschall's personal stories are real and relatable. I enjoyed the short chapters and took my time going through them, wanting to savor the truth being shared and just stay with what I was feeling and learning. It will take a lot to top this as the best Christian women's non-fiction I have ever read. I will be coming back to it often.

Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.

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