Jennifer Dukes Lee - Growing Slow: Lessons on Un-Hurrying Your Heart from an Accidental Farm Girl

My word (phrase) of the year for 2020 was grow slow. I cant tell you how much I wish Id had this book to lead me into those risky, restful, and fruitful days. But living a whole year under that banner convinced me that slow growth is where its at. Its where striving makes way for joy, where change takes root, and abundance blossoms in front of our eyes. Jennifer Dukes Lee is a great leader and a kind guide, and this is a journey and a book I cannot suggest enough.

Jess Connolly, author of You Are the Girl for the Job and Breaking Free from Body Shame

Sometimes our most important work is not what we do but what we finally learn to undo. With kindness and honesty, Jennifer Dukes Lee unfolds for us the spiritual discipline of un-hurrying our lives, from the way we spend our time to the way we define success. In a culture obsessed with power, productivity, and upward mobility, Growing Slow is the reminder we need to keep company with the way of Jesus.

Emily P. Freeman,Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Next Right Thing

Jennifer Dukes Lee always provides a breath of fresh air to the woman who needs to slow down or the woman who is discouraged because life has slowed her down. With a unique grace and time-tested wisdom, Jennifer escorts readers through the uncomfortable and often undesired journey of growing slowbecause this is a journey she knows is foundational to consistently living out a beautiful life through every season.

Chrystal Evans Hurst, bestselling author and speaker

This is Jennifers best book yet. As I worked my way through these pages, I noticed my breathing slowed, my muscles relaxed, and I sensed the invitation to look around and note all thats right in my world. Weve bought the lie that God insists on and is somehow impressed by a flurry of activity and productivity, and its cost us our very lives. Jesus was never in a hurry. He moved at the pace of grace. Jennifer has given us a treasured inside look at her life and journey so that we might learn to treasure our own plot of land and steward it well. There arent enough hours in the day to do it all because we were never meant to do it all. There are enough hours in the day to live in the rhythms of grace God offers us. Every tired, hurried soul needs this book. I wholeheartedly recommend it!

Susie Larson, talk radio host, national speaker, and author of Fully Alive: Learning to FlourishMind, Body & Spirit

Growing Slow is a timely word for a tired and worn-out generation. In an age where the mindset of hustle and hurry leads us to burnout and exhaustion, Jennifer Dukes Lee invites us to the Ancient Way of Jesusof growing slowly by his grace. Every woman needs to read this book!

Gretchen Saffles, author of The Well-Watered Woman: Rooted in Truth, Growing in Grace, Flourishing in Faith and founder of Well-Watered Women

All the hustle and hurry never gets us one step closer to the things we value most: love, connection, and meaning. From the opening chapters of Growing Slow, Jennifer Dukes Lee invites us to slow down and embrace everything weve worn ourselves ragged chasing after. From beginning to end, Growing Slow is one big, sweeping aha moment!

Wendy Speake, author of The 40-Day Sugar Fast

If youre tired of hearing go big or go home, if youre looking to leave your rushed life behind and find purpose, I encourage you to pick up this book. Jennifer Dukes Lee shows you how to exchange the bigger, faster, and harder pressure for deep, lasting, purposeful living. Un-hurry your heart. Rest. Grow slow.

Paula Faris, journalist, podcaster, author

Jennifers work lifts the weight of a busy world from readers shoulders. She pauses the rush to be more and do better, inviting us to Gods way of quiet growth. Each chapter is a new kind of refreshing. This book not only teaches peace, its very pages are peaceful.

Phylicia Masonheimer, founder & CEO of Every Woman a Theologian

Jennifer Dukes Lee is a careful wordsmith in a world full of sound-bites. The message of simplicity in Growing Slow is one I personally cravethe right one to help the exhausted reader find freedom.

Lisa Whittle, author, Bible teacher, podcast host

Growing Slow is an invitation every hurried soul needs. If youre overwhelmed, anxious, or weary, then pause and walk with Jennifer through these pages. Your heart will be freer, your mind calmer, and your load lighter by the time youre finished.

Holley Gerth, life coach and bestselling author of The Powerful Purpose of Introverts

Some books are good; others are needed. This one is both. A life well-lived for the gospel is not measured in accomplishments and results, but in how well we love God and love others, so we must trade the worlds quick and easy mindset for a slow but steady heart. Growing Slow feels like a coffee date with a seasoned and trusted friend. Turn off your notifications and savor the conversation with Jennifer inside.

Michelle Myers and Somer Phoebus, lead communicators of She Works HIS Way

Every time I picked up Growing Slow, it didnt take long for the tears to start falling as I felt a weight lift from my shoulders with Jennifers words. She speaks truth, reminding us that growing slow means growing deep roots. This book is a needed message for all of us as we fight the urge to hurry through life.

Caitlin Henderson, author of Faith, Farming, and Family

In a world bent on more and quickly, Growing Slow takes the farm road less traveled and eloquently maps a path to fulfillment by embracing the slow and holy, here and now. Jennifer Dukes Lees words are the nourishment our hurried hearts need in order to pause, praise, prepare, and pace for optimal soul growth.

Meredith Bernard, ThisFarmWife.com

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ZONDERVAN BOOKS

Growing Slow

Copyright 2021 by Jennifer Dukes Lee

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ISBN 978-0-310-36313-2 (international trade paper edition)

ISBN 978-0-310-36045-2 (audio)

Epub Edition March 2021 9780310360445

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Lee, Jennifer Dukes, author.

Title: Growing slow : lessons on un-hurrying your heart from an accidental farm girl / Jennifer Dukes Lee.

Description: Grand Rapids : Zondervan, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references. | Summary: Growing Slow is a timely, inspiring, and insightful read in which author and farm wife Jennifer Dukes Lee shows the way to unhurrying our hearts, embracing the relaxed rhythms of nature, and discovering the meaningful gift of slow growthProvided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020045495 (print) | LCCN 2020045496 (ebook) | ISBN 9780310360438 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780310360445 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Peace of mindReligious aspectsChristianity. | Stress management for women. | RhythmReligious aspectsChristianity.

Classification: LCC BV4908.5 .L44 2021 (print) | LCC BV4908.5 (ebook) | DDC 248.8/43dc23