Lean on Me by Anne Marie Miller is a book about the trials of life; sometimes needing a community, while other times of our lives we providing the community. I loved the quote from the beginning of chapter 1 by James Baldwin that sometimes home is not a place but a feeling. As a daughter of a pastor, Anne experienced her home being picked up and moved far too often. In Part 1, she brings you through her ups and downs of becoming a woman, finding her husband, and all the aspects of that life brings. Part 2 talks about more struggles she experienced as a grown up, including a divorce. Near the end of the book, she said that as a woman, God had given her a passion for holy relationships. At times when she thought God wasn’t talking to her, he was just through her relationships.
Most anyone can relate to Anne’s sentiments that it feels like God doesn’t always talk to us. We wonder what we’re supposed to do and why he is not answering our prayers. I enjoyed this book, because I could relate to her in how she often wondered where God was when things seemed so bleak and she felt so alone. I was inspired by how she challenges all of us to start small and be faithful. Let God work through us to find and form those relationships that make a community we’re all hungry for.
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