Essential Holiness
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We are overjoyed to bring you a new book for this fall. Even better, we see it as a book that will anchor us and keep us steady into the election season and beyond, come what may. Here’s what we know: as much as we hope the craziness will end and as much as we talk as if it’s limited to 2020, the next few months are all but guaranteed to be a wild ride, and the end to tumultuous uncertainty really isn’t in sight at all.
So let’s deliberately step away from the frenzy, shall we? There is no question that there is so much external anxiety. Most of it we cannot control even a little bit. But what is happening internally?
When the stay-at-home orders began, there was banter about how productive people could be over time in quarantine situations. Write a novel. Sew a wardrobe. Commit to a time-intensive workout plan. You have time! Use it!
And then stay-at-home morphed into something strangely suspended between at-home and “normal,” and there it has stayed. Then, we added to the oddness—natural disaster, civil unrest, a looming election that looks to be as chaotic and destructive as the rest of the year.
Here we are on the cusp of certain new and unexpected reality. All we know is how little we know about the ways our lives will continue to be disrupted, our plans cast aside by a seemingly capricious fate with reckless ferocity.
What if this is our moment, our place in time, to deliberately step away from the fray and resolutely be in the world, but not of it at all? What if all that noise out there is really an invitation? A clarion call to grow closer to God than ever before?
What if 2020 isn’t a train wreck after all? What if it’s a beautiful opportunity to recognize that there is more goodness to be lived in this one wild and precious life than you ever thought possible?
We are inviting you to step away from the chaos and into something peaceful, purposeful, and productive this fall.
We are inviting you to grow in grace, in serenity, in authentic holiness while the world around you swirls ever more chaotically.
What if, here and now, as summer comes to a close and we look ahead to a new academic year and the briskness of autumn’s quickened pace, we take some time to consider what is truly essential? What if we intentionally set about to craft a life that is mindful of the one thing that is important? What if we did everything, from this moment forward, for God’s glory?
Let’s dive deep into Essential Holiness.
This book begins with those questions and then explores every aspect of a woman's life, underlining what is essential to holiness so that, arriving at the book's end, we will have prayerfully discerned God's call on our lives and established good habits that equip us to answer the call with joy—no matter what the world throws at us.
We invite you to step into an enclave of peace this fall, where you will be surrounded by women who are ready to lift their gaze from the flashing images and fleeting cliches of social media to fix their vision on what is eternally and essentially important.
Come with us! Step away from this frantic uncertainty. Let’s grow together in peace and sustaining joy.