From the beautiful cover with a handful of bright yellow blossoms to the back cover asking "How would your life be different if you were just a bit happier every day?" - this book seems to have revitalizing power. Author Alli Worthington has touched on something that every woman probably wonders about while thinking everyone else has it all together. The book is divided into 12 sections: Made to be happy, Holiness is happiness, Happiness in the here and now, Good friends and happy hearts, Finding your happy thought, Happy in a world of crazy, When happiness is hard, Healthy-Happy-Whole, Choosing Happiness, The power of happy words, A happy heart is good medicine and Building a Happy Life. Inside each section are seven to ten spiritual pep talks. Each contains a short story with Biblical application and a short exercise for the reader to participate in. Fun things like thinking about your idea of happiness, listing unique qualities about yourself, describing one thing in your life that is imperfectly wonderful, ask God what seeds He's given you to plant and think of a situation where you could chose compassion for yourself instead of self-criticism. The short readings help it not feel overwhelming or daunting. But don't be misled by this into thinking this book is just fluff. It is not! There are deep truths and thoughts you'll ponder long after shutting the pages of the book. I really enjoyed that there was an action the reader was invited to do after reading the story, thoughts and scripture encouragement that was given. This made the book more personal and more impactful for me.
I was given this book by the publisher but was not required to write a positive review.
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