Being a Girl Who Loves: Learning to Love Like Jesus
by Shannon Kubiak Primicerio
Published by Bethany House Publishers (October 2005 release)
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Reviewed by Andrea Sisco
What is love? Shannon Kubiak Primicerio, author of Being A Girl Who Loves: Learning to Love Like Jesus contrasts the cultural definitions of love with the biblical definition of love. The author invites us to think about what love is, why we should love, whom we should love and how we should express that love. She makes her case through personal stories and biblical teaching and follows up by providing thought-provoking questions and personal call-to-action suggestions.
The author proclaims that we are being destroyed by people who claim we do not need God and the sadness of that statement is that those people are rejecting love. She believes that we have become a society that treats all faiths as equal and make God what we want Him to be and therefore make love what we want it to be.
The book's is that it is not about us. It is about how we love from a biblical perspective. It is the gentle love and the tough love, the giving and taking, being needed and needing others.
Everyone reading this book will have something that 'speaks' to them. For me it was loving the unlovable and being the unlovable. It gave me pause and I've been thinking about the subject (and working on changing) a lot since reading the book. It is one that will hold a special place in my personal library.
Armchair Interviews says that Being a Girl Who Loves: Learning to Love Like Jesus is thought provoking and demands to be read over time and then it calls to be referred to again and again. This is a book, for all people, not just girls.
Watch for the release October 2005