Jami Amerine - Rest, Girl: A Journey from Exhausted and Stressed to Entirely Blessed

Many of us are bad at resting, and I am the chief of sinners. This is why Im thankful for Jami Amerines reminder that God invites us to a life of rest. This book is not an invitation to take a momentary breather; its a clarion call to change the posture of your life from one of worry to rest. As always, Jami Amerines writing is full of honesty and humor. She has experienced her fair share of storms, which makes her the perfect person to write about the One who slept through storms and empowers us to do the same. Why be ruled by worry when you can rule from rest?

-Paul Ellis, Author of The Silent Queen: Why the Church Needs Women to Find their Voice and Stuff Jesus Never Said

Rest, Girl is a must read! Jami Amerine knows firsthand what it feels like to crawl through each day, exhausted and weary. And yet, through life experience, the study of scripture, and a deep affection for Jesus, she has learned a better way. A way that leaves her energized, filled with hope, and eager to share what she has found with othersthe way to true rest. Filled with hilarious anecdotes and heart-stirring truth, Rest, Girl offers laughter and hope to your weary soul, and a promise that a life of rest and joy is truly possible.

-Jennifer Bleakley, author of Joey: How a Blind Rescue Horse Helped Others Learn to See and Pawverbs: 100 Inspirations to Delight an Animal Lovers Heart

I value friends who speak hard truths into me while praying peace and blessing over me. Jami Amerine is one such friend to me! As you read the following pages filled with what her own heartache, faith journey, and research has taught her, I imagine Jami will become a truth-speaking, peace-praying friend of yours too! In Rest, Girl, Jami helps weary women like us to finally understand why we have never truly been at rest, even though we love God and trust His promises. Via her trademark mix of wit and humor, youll come to see that chronic unrest happens whenever our words and thinking do not line up. Allow Jami to show you how true rest can be your reality going forward whenever you take God at His Word; receiving His love over the fears and lies that have kept your mouth and mind wound up and misaligned for years.

-Tracy Steel, mentor, speaker, and author of A Redesigned Life: Uncovering Gods Purpose When Life Doesnt Go As Planned

Like Jami, I have struggled with a What If Ugh mindset, assuming the worst and rehearsing hurts, which has resulted in unrest. After reading Rest, Girl I am consciously choosing to adopt a What If Wow mindset, asking myself, What if this goes well? What if there is no longer a disconnect between what I profess and how I live? What if it is possible to daily embrace the Good News of the Gospel and walk in the freedom and peace Jesus died to give us? Rest, Girl will make you think and it will stretch you, while simultaneously inviting you to rest in the goodness of Godnot buts.

-Katie M. Reid, author of Made Like Martha and A Very Bavarian Christmas, and co-founder of ChangeYourMindChangeEverything.org

What would it feel like if the rumbling in your heart stilled like the storm Jesus spoke to? What if your shoulders lowered out of your ears? What if your mind stopped racing? You would feel the rest Jesus promised. Jami repeatedly points us back to Christ as we wrestle with what leaves us exhausted and stressed. Its time rest in the blessing. Read on, dear one!

-Jill E. McCormick, co-author of Sister, Walk in Truth and host of the Grace In Real Life podcast

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For you, dear sister in ChristI love you. You are seen and known. Welcome to rest.

Jami Amerine is my friend, so when she asked me to write the foreword for Rest, Girl, I agreed without hesitation. Ill be honest though; I thought of it as an assignment. It was merely an assignment with a deadline that I penciled on my calendar just like dozens of other writing assignments Ive had in my career.

I planned to get through a few chapters over morning coffee and pen some nice words for her readers. My duty was to get people jazzed over the book. That was it. That was the task at hand.

But, before my first cup of coffee was gone, reading Jamis words no longer became a task. Reading this book wasnt merely preparation for writing the foreword. Her words spoke to me. They spoke life into me. They spoke rest, relief. The new task at hand wasnt to come up with a couple of paragraphs for you. It was to grow, to understand, to seek this Jesus Jami so lovingly speaks of.

As a child, I thought of Jesus as a greater being who lived somewhere in the clouds above the water tower in my small, southern town. Jesus and His Father both looked down on meand I mean that in more ways than one. They looked down on methe despicable, chubby bully who stole grapes from Krogerthe way a stern, disappointed teacher looks down on a student sitting at a desk with a cheat sheet.