Oh my people! I haven’t read a funny book in a while…and this book was funny! I’ve never read anything of Jen Hatmaker’s before, but this was an enjoyable first read! “For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards” is described as:

“She reveals with humor and style how Jesus’ embracing grace is the key to dealing with life’s biggest challenge: people. The majority of our joys, struggles, thrills, and heartbreaks relate to people, beginning with ourselves and then the people we came from, married, birthed, live by, go to church with, don’t like, don’t understand, fear, compare ourselves to, and judge. Jen knows how the squeeze of this life can make us competitive and judgmental, how we can lose love for others and then for ourselves.” –From Amazon.com

I had no less than 15 pages in this book dog-eared and marked up with ABSOLUTE favorites! People! There are only 200 pages in this book! The chapters are short and sweet {I paced myself and read 3 a night so that I could get it done faster}. There were even several recipes in here that I may just have to try!

While I thoroughly enjoyed the book, I’m still kind of at a loss for how the book had much to do with the title…and maybe that’ts just me reading, exhausted at the end of the day. There were definitely points, stories and examples that absolutely had to do with showing grace to ourselves and those around us…and maybe that was the trick. That Jen did such a fantastic job of teaching on grace that I didn’t ever feel like I was being preached at! Which I certainly appreciate.

I’ve already passed this book on to my mom for her to read and definitely recommend it if you’re looking for a light hearted faith-read!

*I received this book for free from BookLookBloggers in exchange for my honest review. You can find my disclosure policy here.