Hope for your Fears

Life is filled with fears.  Dr. David Jeremiah takes a look at these fears as well as providing strong Biblical teaching on how to overcome these fears.  There are 10 types of fear that are discussed.  These fears are:  disaster, disease, debt, defeat, loneliness, disapproval, danger, depression, death, and God.  These are things that everyone deals with in themselves or in other people that touch our lives.  The hope and practical wisdom provided is motivating. 

I know this book will be a great reference tool to be used throughout my life.  Working with people on a daily basis will put these principles into practice.  I look forward to sharing this wisdom with the people in my life.

My heartfelt thanks to Netgalley and Tyndale House Publishers for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book.

Cinderella meets Ruth in Once Upon a Prince by Rachel Hauck

This is a fun romantic "Cinderella" story.  There is a touch of the Bible woven in that reminded me of the story of Ruth.  All girls would love to find a true prince to marry and this was a fun read.
Susanna thought she had her life figured out.  She was going to marry her high school sweetheart.  After all she had waited 12 years for him, on the night of her "proposal" he tells her he has fallen for someone else.  Deep in her heart Susanna knows that this is the right thing, but what will her life look like now?!

Susanna runs into Nate after being dumped.  Things do not seem to go right, but Nate takes her to her family restaurant, where he is put to work scrubbing bathrooms.  Little does the family realize that he really is a prince.  Susanna and Nate form a friendship before Nate has to return to his duties as a prince.  Eventually the family finds out Nate's royal bloodlines.

Nate has to return home and take over the family business.  Susanna tries to start her own landscaping business, but that doesn't work out the way she had planned.  Everything seems to be falling apart for her when an invitation from Prince Nathaniel arrives to attend his "crowning ceremony".  Susanna and her sister arrive for the festivities.  Nate's family thinks that this is just a short lived romance, but as any good romance goes, Susanna gets her prince.  Lessons are learned along the way and once again we see how God does care about our lives.  His higher ways are always the best ways, so we learn to relinquish our trust to Him once again.

I loved this fun fast paced story.  I loved being reminded of how God does care for each of us.  Our lives tend to take unexpected turns that we can only understand in reverse. 

My thanks to Netgalley and Zondervan for giving me the opportunity to read this story.  Rachel Hauck is an author I look forward to reading more from in the future.