Jackie Hill Perry
Jackie grew up fatherless and experienced gender confusion. She embraced masculinity and homosexuality with every fiber of her being. She knew that Christians had a lot to say about all of the above. But was she supposed to change herself? How was she supposed to stop loving women, when homosexuality felt more natural to her than heterosexuality ever could? At age nineteen, Jackie came face-to-face with what it meant to be made new. And not in a church, or through contact with Christians. God broke in and turned her heart toward Him right in her own bedroom in light of His gospel. In this book, Jackie Hill Perry shares her own story, offering practical tools that helped her in the process of finding wholeness.
First off, let's get one thing clear: I LOVE the way this girl writes! Even though it's a work of prose, it feels poetic. Her descriptions of Bible stories and personal events are both rich with imagery and metaphor. Most of the book is biographical: the story of Jackie's upbringing and eventual transformation. But then she includes three chapters at the end as a kind of appendix: a resource to help us all frame our thoughts about sexuality, identity, and the gospel. Two Thumbs Up! 4 Stars!
First Line: I wrote this book out of love - a common word used so out of context on most days.
Page 56 / Line 5: She'd been speaking for what might've been a minute, about what?
A Good Line from Somewhere in the Middle: Quieted and listening, my mind held in it this sentence: "Jackie, you have to believe My Word is true, even if it contradicts how you feel."
Last Line: So because He is the same God that did something wonderful to the soul of the psalmist, and the same God that did an equally beautiful thing to my own, He is, even now, more than able to do the same for every soul alive.
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