This Book Is for You: Loving God’s Words in Your Actual Life

Tricia Lott Williford

NavPress, Aug 17, 2021 - Religion - 176 pages

This is a book about falling in love with the Bible . . . that feels nothing like reading a book about the Bible.
This Book Is for You will help you learn that the Bible has something life-changing to say about who you are, where you are, and the God who is in the midst of it. When you finish this book, you just might say, “I see what she did here. I didn’t realize it, but I was learning while I was laughing. She invited me into a dialogue about things I didn’t know I wanted to learn. She stirred within me a love for the Bible, but it didn’t hurt at all.”

This Book Is for You invites you into the author’s life using stories, humor, and charm, revealing how the Bible has become Tricia Lott Williford’s daily lifeline. Regardless of your notions of the Bible, Tricia will help you engage with it as a living, meets-me-where-I’m-at thing.

Tricia is not a seminarian. She is a lover of God’s Word. She is not a highbrow academician. She is educated as a grade school teacher who sometimes uses comic relief to make her point. She is not a theologian, a Bible teacher, or even a Bible scholar. Tricia is a lover of messy people; a mom of two teenage boys who are likely late for school and wearing mismatched socks. She has been known to absent-mindedly doodle in the margins of overdue library books. She has battled depression and anxiety to degrees that have nearly drowned her. She has begged the Lord for miracles that only He could provide. And somewhere in the midst of all that, she fell hopelessly in love with the Word of God as a light to her next step and the air for her next breath.

Now Tricia wants you to experience this too.

Contents

• This Book Is for You: 1
• Lets Start at the Very Beginning: 11
• But Maybe Dont Start at the Very Beginning: 19
• ModernDay Psalmist: 27
• How Is This a Future and a Hope?: 43
• After the Earthquake: 55
• When I Didnt Know: 67
• Imagine That Dinner Table: 81
• Even If He Doesnt: 93
• In the Margins of Your Actual Days: 103
• Fear: 113
• Worship: 121
• Together Work: 127
• Quicksand: 137
• Epilogue: 151
• Fifteen Things to Know as You Navigate the Bible: 154
• Acknowledgments: 158
• Notes: 161

Bibliographic information

• Title: This Book Is for You: Loving God’s Words in Your Actual Life
• Author: Tricia Lott Williford
• Publisher: NavPress, 2021
• ISBN: 1641582782, 9781641582780
• Length: 176 pages
• Subjects: Religion / Christian Living / Inspirational; Religion / Christian Living / Personal Growth; Religion / Christian Living / Spiritual Growth