Paula Hendrick says that in the midst of God doing a transforming work in her heart,

she began to see that her love life had become an idol.

That was the one area that I really did not want to let go of.

And it was very scary to imagine giving God control over that area of my life.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Thursday, July 3rd, 2014.

In the month of July, you're getting a chance to get to know authors in the True Woman

line of books. This week, Nancy's been talking with one of those authors, Paula Hendricks.

Most of our listeners know Paula as a writer at the True Woman blog, and now she's released

her first book. Here she is, talking about it with Nancy. Paula, this book I'm holding in my hand,

Confessions of a Boy Crazy Girl. It is a really, it's a sharp book, but it's cute. It just looks fun. It looks engaging. I'm not a teenager close to it, but it just looks to me like something that teen girls would really be interested in getting into. But let me ask you this, if this book had been around when you were a

teenager and your mom had handed it to you based on where you were as a boy crazy girl,

do you think you would have been interested in it? How might you have responded? I probably wouldn't

have been crazy about it coming from my mom, although it's so stinking cute that maybe when she left the room, I would read it when she wasn't looking.

But yeah, it probably would have been better coming from an older sister, you know, girl in church who I really looked up to.

So we need to pray that this book will get out into the hands of people that these

teen girls respect and feel comfortable taking something from. And I'm not saying mom shouldn't

give it to their daughter. You've got to know your daughter and what she might respond to. But

I just, I want to see so many women, young women, read this book. It's got such great insight.

It's so honest. It's so engaging.

And I think if they'll get into it, that it really will speak to their hearts. But if your mom listening to me right now, you might just pray and ask the Lord what would be the best way to get this

book into your daughter's hand in a way that maybe she can receive it.

That's a good idea.

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