Here on Revive Our Hearts, throughout the month of July, we're focusing on practical life issues like singleness, parenting, mentoring, and today marriage.

All month, we've been getting to know the hearts of the authors in the True Woman line of books.

So far, we've heard from Paula Hendricks, author of Confessions of a Boy Crazy Girl.

My parents had me wear culots, which are these very long shorts.

No one at school was wearing anything like that.

So I felt like I stood out like a sore thumb.

I felt ugly.

And I noticed that the girls who were showing off more skin, they were the ones who got attention.

Erin Davis, author of Beyond Bath Time, Your children are an unreached people group.

They come to earth without an understanding of God. They don't automatically know him as their

savior. Someone has to teach them. Someone has to train them. They're your mission field.

They're a little flock of people who doesn't know about Jesus unless you tell them. And so how can

that be a small thing? Mary Cassian and Susan Hunt, authors of becoming God's true woman while I still have a curfew.

I want my generation to care about the next generation. And I was so happy that Mary and I

have been able to put something into their hands that can be a conversation starter. And Carrie Ward,

author of Together growingetites for God.

It crossed my mind that if I haven't been successful in reading the Bible myself,

what makes me think I can read it to preschoolers that did cross my mind.

But there was something in me that wouldn't let go of the idea.

On Friday, we began hearing from another true woman author, Kim Wagner.

Kim had a heart for the Lord and a commitment to serve as a pastor's wife and a critical

spirit toward her husband.

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