Let Go: Live Free of the Burdens All Women Know

By Sheila Walsh

Book Overview

Burdened. The word alone makes shoulders sink. It slows down our lives. It clouds our vision. It is the result of so many memories, grudges, fears, uncertainty, and stress. It is heavy.? ? "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." (Matt 11:28) Overworked? Overcommitted? Overtired? Underappreciated? ? Let go and live free. Sound impossible? Sheila Walsh thought so - until God proved himself again and again through his Word, his people, and her life.?? In Let Go , the bestselling author and speaker walks readers through the journey to freedom in Christ. Along the way, she tackles some of the toughest struggles that weigh women down, answering them with overwhelming truth, promise, and hope.?? You can lay down your burdens. You can rest. You can find peace. You can live free . Start here. Let Go. And see what God can do. ?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0849901359
• ISBN13: 9780849901355
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Hanging On By Letting Go

"I will deliver you." Sheila Walsh, Women of Faith speaker, opened her book with these words from God spoken in her spirit. She felt "discouraged and bone weary." Just like so many of us women at so many times in our lives. She needed "more peace about the issue." So she began a "quest to study and understand what it means to be delivered." A sense of frustration dogged my reading in the beginning because I wanted Sheila to "bleed." I wanted to know exactly what struggle, what issue required deliverance. I continued to read in my usual manner with pencil in hand, marking statements that spoke to me or seemed to relate to the theme of letting go. Stuff like... * Accepting what is enables us to embrace a different future. * What should have happened did. * When we are unable to forgive or refuse to forgive, we become hostages to the pain of the past. * Forgiveness unclenches our fists and allows us to let go. * The most difficult person to forgive can be the one we see in the mirror every morning. * Resting in the love of God means letting go of all the broken pieces we cling to and clinging instead to him. * It's hard to fall off a pedestal when you are washing someone's feet. * Guilt tells me I've done something wrong. Shame tells me I am something wrong. * If I place my hope in anything or anyone other than Jesus, I will be disappointed. And then she bled. She shared the story. And the intense spiritual struggle. And wise words from a child. And what seemed disjointed (which is often the way of healing) and all of my markings came together. And carried more meaning. Sometimes in order to hang on, we have to let go. Thank you, Sheila, for being open and vulnerable. For letting go of the need to protect yourself. We've all been there in some form, and your overcoming gives us hope. [...]

Wonderful

Sheila Walsh's "Let Go' book is a wonderful help in realizing the fullness of God's Grace. It will give you the tools to show you how to be set free from life's burdens. You will learn to live in the Victory that Christ established for His children. You will also learn to recognize the enemy, so you can combat him succesfully. This book will also help you pull out your brokenness and live joyfully in the promises of our Awesome God.

Let Go

My initial thoughts when beginning to read this book were wondering how a beautiful and talented woman like Sheila Walsh could ever suffer from depression. But she captures us from the beginning and tells us brief segments of her life and of her family. In so doing, she becomes like so many of us, doing the best we can and searching for a better life. Ms. Walsh leads us on an inspirational path to bring those of us who have gotten lost along the way, back to God. She also helps us to keep Satan at bay, for he was defeated by Christ, and how to pray for our children and bring them back to God. She teaches us to "Let Go" and trust in the Lord, and to build our hope on Christ. She shows us how times can be so dark during a bout of extreme depression, but how our trust in Christ can pull us through and out of the darkness and back into the light. A passage that I especially enjoyed was when she said that, "Jesus never minimized sin, but he separated the sinner from the sin that had a hold on her. This means he might not like what you do, but he absolutely, unconditionally adores you yourself." She also mentions that, "No one on this planet has to eat alone because Jesus has a table for two with each of our names on it." As a single woman, I find comfort in knowing that I am not eating alone, but sitting at the table with the one who lives me totally and unconditionally. Sheila Walsh has a lot to tell you and I recommend that you buy her book and learn how to "Let Go."

The title says it all...Let Go...

This book offers lessons based on following Christian principles to help women make it through problems that plague today's woman. This book covers and bases the lessons of "Let Go" on the promise of grace and forgiveness through Jesus Christ. Each chapter is followed by inspirational and empowering ways for women to let go of their burdens and build their Christian faith in the process. The author writes in a light-hearted and at times a comical way, which makes it easy to read & learn from. The author shares her own weaknesses and trials with the reader and it makes it easy to relate to her and learn from her. Also, the chapters make their point quickly, so you won't get overwhelmed with information. Even if the reader is not a Christian, there are many points the author makes which would help any woman trying to lessen her worrisome burdens. This book would be very suitable for a woman's group study or devotional. There are ponder points at the end of each chapter. They would make great discussion topics for any women's group. One of my favorite quotes from the book is "When we are satiated with God's grace, it is much easier to extend grace to other's, but, when we are on starvation rations ourselves we have little to spare." This is just one of the many common sense approaches the author shares with the reader. This book earns 5 stars as I feel the author does exactly what the title implies.

5 Stars

This is a tremendous tool for any woman to have in her library. I liked the format that the author used for each chapter which consisted of bible scriptures, personable quotes, a well told testimony/story, deliverance discovered questions and a prayer of deliverance. A sample of the chapter titles are: This dead religion is past its sell-by date, living in the past, look at the view ahead!, the trap of unforgiveness, You are you for a reason, a long-awaited deliverance. Story after story the author shows the reader that if we "let go" that God will hold 100 percent true to his word and deliver us. Highly recommended!