Book Review by Amy

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I don’t often post a note from a friend, but this one was just too good not to share. Amy Shaw and I have been friends for quite some time and she recently read and reviewed by book, Hungry For More: Feasting Through the Word.(By the way, if you want me to post your review, Just email it to me!)

 

Anyway, thanks Amy! (Check out her blog.)

 

So here you go, in Amy’s words:

 

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When you find something that you really love, you share it.

 

If it’s a meal at a restaurant (oh, those amazing Sushi Nachos we had on our date night in South Carolina!!)

OR

if it’s a favorite lipstick (like Avon’s Beyond Color in Pink Lemonade that they discontinued! 🙁 Sniff sniff!)

OR

if it’s a favorite brand of jeans (love me some Banana Republic jeans!)

 

And if it’s a book…well, I’m gonna tell you about it!

 

I read Kandy Persall’s Hungry For More recently. It was an amazing journey of a book!

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First, some background. The author is my personal friend. She and her husband and two daughters were in East Asia and they were amazing mentors to us. They served for a good 20 years (we only did 2!) before moving home to America. They are amazing faith-filled people who love to do whatever God gives them to do.

 

And she wrote a book. A very good book!

 

She asks a very GOOD question:

What are you hungry for?

 

Really—What is your deepest desire?

 

Kandy’s book was my daily delight as I would meet with Jesus each morning. This book was a fabulous companion to the Word. I quickly realized that this book was not going to be a “quick read” but rather a deep, satisfying read. In her terms of meals…it was a slow, savory rich meal–with chopsticks! 😉

 

By no means was it hard to understand, you see, my friend Kandy writes some very humorous tales of her time in Asia and has this incredible ability to tie it to spiritual truth. Her style is very honest and open about her own struggles and she shares what God taught her through them. She uses parenthetical notes with Scripture addresses so the reader can pause and look up each verse as he or she is reading. Kandy encourages this of each reader so they can reap the most benefit from her work.

 

I was delighted to discover that each cited Scripture was NOT the typical verses we tend to think of. She has done an exhaustive study of the Word and is sharing Scriptures to be read and understood in new ways. There were many times while reading the book that I would just pause and let the verse sit on my heart before moving on. There was MORE to get from it. 

 

Kandy’s own pursuit of the Lord and His ways and heart are inspiring. She lays out her own vulnerabilities and allows the reader to enter in and study the Scriptures that relate. I found new truths and realities in my own walk with God because of reading her analogies and her journey. 

 

I have made myself a note to go back and refer to Chapter 14 when I am a worn out, exhausted mother of 8 children. I know those days are in my future, and I will use Kandy’s words here along with my Bible and prayer to combat those future days!