Maggie Rowe has written a masterpieceher magnum opusand will guide you through evaluating your inner journey with all its anxiety, insecurity, and pain. Shell teach you how to live an intentional, purposeful life thats filled with relationships that matter. The focus of this book isnt becoming perfectits being God-focused and infusing your life with transformational truth. The writing is exquisite, and each reflection will challenge you to live a life that matters. You can read this book on your own, but if you want to grow a deeper spiritual relationship with a friend, ask her to join you on this journey.
CAROL KENT , speaker; author of He Holds My Hand
This Life We Share is a wonderfully comprehensive guide for those who want to live and love well with God, people, and the world. With wisdom born from a deep faith, a broad knowledge of Scripture, and a life well lived, Maggie serves the reader as a trusted life coach in these pages. Grab a few friends and journey together as you engage her words. Youll be glad that you did.
SCOTT SAULS , senior pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church; author of several books, including Jesus Outside the Lines and Irresistible Faith
The beauty of a book written by a wise older woman is that there is something for everyonea lifetime of varied adventures and challenges which affirm the goodness of God. Every page of This Life We Share reminds me that life with God and others is indeed a treasure. Please savor Maggie Rowes words slowly, that the rich truth might sink deeply into your soul, offering strength for your own journey.
LUCINDA SECREST M C DOWELL , speaker; author of Soul Strong and Life-Giving Choices
Maggie Rowe has never steered me wrong, and her insights and great humor as well as spiritual compass on true north have always informed all her advice. As they do this book. Take it from mefollow Maggies direction, as it is based on Christs. Read this book.
HUGH HEWITT , author, journalist, syndicated Salem Radio Network host
The first time I met Maggie Rowe, I knew she was special. A woman of deep wisdom, unending kindness, seemingly effortless generosity, and a ten-mile-deep love for God and others. In this memoir of her spiritual journey, Maggie transforms her own life-lived-well into a map for the rest of us. Here are fifty-two devotional reflections filled with kindness, generosity, and the sort of wisdom that can transform you from your everyday self into the person you actually want to be. Buy this book, read it, and find in it some quiet space for your heart to soar.
SANDRA RICHTER , Robert H. Gundry Chair of Biblical Studies at Westmont College; author of The Epic of Eden
Bravo to Maggie Wallem Rowe! Maggie is honest, vulnerable, and exhibiting of grace. She provides fifty-two reflections through which all the biggies shinewomanhood, motherhood, pastors-wife-hood, Scripture studenthood, and writer/actress-hood. You will know Maggie. And that is a blessing because you may know yourself better.
DIKKON EBERHART , P H D , author of The Time Mom Met Hitler,Frost Came to Dinner, and I Heard the Greatest Story Ever Told
As I traveled through the pages of this book, I was enchanted by Maggies vivid descriptions, her honest longings to do life better, and her genuine love for all who read her words. I soon realized that Maggies story is my story, and most likely your story. This Life We Share is filled with time-honored truths for all generations. We, the readers, are the beneficiaries as Maggie shares her life, connects us with biblical stories, and points us to the one who guides our every step. This is a book to read and reread, and most definitely to share with others.
CYNTHIA FANTASIA , DM IN , speaker; author of In the Lingering Light
Maggie has spent decades following Jesusas a pastors wife, coworker, mother, daughter, and friend. Now she puts pen to page to share the wisdom shes learned along the way. Maggie has a gift for seeing the world and finding meaning in ordinary days, capturing it in delightful prose. She also has the gift of insight, the ability to harness her own self-awareness for the good of others. In this book, youll find more than good advice; I expect youll find a new friend.
CARMEN JOY IMES , associate professor of Old Testament at Prairie College; author of Bearing Gods Name
In This Life We Share, Maggie Rowe has provided weary Christian women with rich, soul-nourishing words that sink down deep. Engaging with these brief but substantive reflections feels like going on a road trip with a best friend.
STEVE WIENS , author of Shining like the Sun, Beginnings, and Whole
This Life We Share is an encouraging read about navigating life events in light of scriptural insight. As a cherished sister in Christ, Maggie takes the reader through her own circumstances, fusing her knowledge of Gods Word alongside essential wisdom, humor, and truth. Here, Maggie has created a work that is both challenging to the reader and reassuringever pointing toward Christ, who has gone before us.
REBECCA VAN DEN BRINK , pastor of ministries at North Sea Baptist Church, Stavanger, Norway
Only a sensitive observer could have written this book. I have enjoyed Maggies deep insights and ability to synthesize lifes challenges and joys for over thirty years. She is a student of people, Scripture, biography, herself, and those she loves, and an eager friend. In short, wherever she is, Maggie is all there. It would be difficult to name a subject women might face that this book doesnt describe and handle with vulnerability, honesty, humor, and understanding. I can imagine a small group of women bonding very easily as they glean more about life from Maggies wisdom and decades of experience. Hard questions? Bring them on!
GAIL M AC DONALD , wife, mom, grandmother, friend; author of High Call, High Privilege
What if you had a mentor, a sister willing to share the wisdom shes learned along lifes way? With her book This Life We Share, author Maggie Rowe is exactly that. From impostor syndrome to immigration to infertility, Maggie offers bite-size nuggets of wisdom to encourage you to keep walking forward on this shared journey of life.
CATHERINE M C NIEL , author of Long Days of Small Things and All Shall Be Well
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This Life We Share: 52 Reflections on Journeying Well with God and Others
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