& Book Reviews
I read this book in 2013 and, as a woman, it showed me
things about myself that I had never recognized before. Not
only does the author address topics that concern us women
in our Christian life, but also how social, family, and cultural
issues form how we operate in that Christianity.
The book starts out talking about the general roles in our
lives: wife, mother, career professional, and how wearing
these masks create a filter through which we live a Christian
life. In these roles, it is easy for the enemy to bind us through
a mask of ritual and routine.
The following chapters go on to talk about all the masks we wear to cover up our
past, whether it be pain from childhood abuse, loss of a loved-one, and various
negative relationships. Then, some of us seek help through counseling or self-help
groups, and how to overcome living our lives according to how other people see us.
Some of us get into competitions with coworkers, family, and neighbors, as well as
compare ourselves with others that we deem better than us, or that we perceive to
have a higher social status. The book deals with condemnation, whether from
ourselves or from others, and the masks it causes us to wear, and the unrealistic
expectations we put on ourselves.
Once all the masks are identified, the remainder of the book tells us how to truly
take off the masks that we wear for the world, so that we can be transparent and
bare-faced before God. As this author so eloquently points out, using her own
experiences throughout, in order to be real with God, we have to take off all the
masks. The only way we can have our identity in Him is to take off all of our worldly
masks, and have no fear of anyone seeing the real “woman behind the mask.”
I absolutely loved this book!
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a publication of Ruth Ministries-The Virtuous Woman,TM a woman's restoration ministry/a segment of Philippi Prospect Ministries TM