Your Captivating Heart: Unveil the Beauty, Romance, and Adventure of a Woman's Soul

by Stasi Eldredge (Author) 

The essence of Captivating distilled into a beautiful, inviting gift book-Women are created to express God's glory through their beauty, strength, and love. Life is supposed to be a beautiful romance,but the church, along with the rest of the world, has missed this truth. Your Captivating Heart can help women reclaim and restore the glory they're meant to have. Every spread in this book is crafted into a self-contained nugget that includes both instruction and inspiration.A woman either can open the book to any page, find a single uncomplicated message, and then close the book to go about her busy life or she can enjoy a progression of these gentle, uncomplicated messages as she reads through the entire book in an hour or less. Among the concepts to be explored are:

• The core desires andcrucial question in the heart of every woman.
• A woman was created to be theimage bearer of God; her essence is beauty.
• Because of the Fall, women may becomecontrolling, indulging, fearful, desolate.Now women need mercy and repentance.
• All women have been wounded, assaulted.Underneath every controlling, indulging, fearful, or desolate woman is a wounded little girl.
• Women needhealing and restoration.Women need to reject the messages of their wounds and instead embrace their new identity as God's glorious daughters.
• Women are meant to be beloved and are meant to play anirreplaceable role in the romantic adventure of life.

About the author

 Stasi Eldredge loves writing and speaking to women about the goodness of God. She spent her childhood years in Prairie Village, Kansas, for which she is truly grateful. Her family moved to Southern California back in the really bad smog days when she was ten. She loved theatre and acting and took a partiality to her now husband John when they were friends in high school. Stasi received her Bachelor's Degree in Sociology from San Diego State University which she attended primarily because it was close to the beach. She became a Christian her junior year in college and dove into the ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ. After graduating, Stasi joined Youth for Christ, heading up a ministry to pregnant teenagers and teen mothers. She has been active in ministry ever since, including theatre ministry, crisis pregnancy center ministry, women’s ministry, and children’s ministry. The Eldredge family moved to Colorado in 1991. YAY!