Wise, Practical Application to Overcome Fear and Turn to God

God does work in mysterious ways. After a particularly difficult week with worry and fear, this book showed up on my doorstep. I forgot I ever ordered it and the line on the title "How to Find Peace for Your Anxious Heart" was speaking right to me.

For anyone else struggling with fear, anxiety, and the knee-jerk reactions it induces in your life, pick up this book. Maria Furlough writes from a wise, gentle perspective, and her personal story is one of strength and overcoming that offered me encouragement.

Every time I picked up this book, it had a way of speaking directly to how I was feeling and offering wise, practical application to help me think differently about my fears. Each chapter outlines part of Furlough's fear journey (and, in particular, her journey with the loss of her son) and redefines it with steps to overcome fear and move toward God.

Each chapter closes with several questions to unpack how fear is manifested in your life and how to apply what the chapter outlines to overcome it. These questions aren't simple to answer, either--things like "What do you hear God saying to you" or "How can you turn your fear-filled pleas into faith-filled prayers" make things very applicable to your current situation.

In all, I highly recommend this book to anyone struggling with anxiety (it could be more clinical or it could be circumstantial)--you'll find a change of thinking as you read through this book.

Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.