I would like to tell you about the woman behind the words, and I can honestly say, I know she has lived and continues to live what she has written.

This book she has written has come with a price. You see, salvation in Christ is free, but obedience to Him may cost you your life. In actuality, becoming a believer of Christ is the easy part — anyone who believes will be saved. It’s becoming a follower that will cost you everything. And that is what this book is about. And I’ve witnessed Kris Camealy live out these words as a believer and follower of Christ.

I know her mostly from her online presence which is a powerful, grace-filled, encouraging presence because it is God’s Presence that emanates from her words and her images. I’ve had the privilege of meeting her face to face and she is one of those women that you know are genuine through and through, authentic and true, the moment you meet.

And on the heels of my dream again series, I could not be more delighted to share with you about my friend who has taken a courageously leap forward in pursuing her dream to write a book. A dream that has taken her on a journey that God has used to refine her.

I remember reading these words on her blog and understanding the cost of this fight within. “In a fit one restless afternoon, I retreated to my bedroom venting my frustrations at God for leading me down such a difficult path. I pressed Him for the whys of this struggle–things were taking so long, and He had revealed so much trash in my own soul. This opportunity which began as a dream come true, had shifted from joyful to torturous, as God used the process to refine me.“

And she found herself in a place of surrender, even surrender of her dreams, and she tapped out these words and lived this truth. “The first step to living the God-sized dream you have envisioned, is to surrender it to the one that God has planned for you.”

Her book encompasses what I believe it means to live a life surrendered.

“Sometimes bravery looks more like surrender. How on earth this can be, I don’t fully know, but like everything else in God’s economy that runs backwards and inside out to the way I think it should, this somehow makes sense…He doesn’t just want our bag of dreams and longings. His desire is for us to be wholly His, that He might make us holy for Him.” — Kris Camealy, Holey, Wholly, Holy: A Lenten Journey of Refinement

This book is not expensive to buy, but it will cost you your life in order to live-out the words found in it. And the truth of it is, it’s in the losing of our life that our life is found — in Christ.

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