The Beautiful Balance for Body and Soul (Lifebalance Series)

Rating:
Summary: Please, rethink your potential purchase.
Review: Dear fellow searchers,
Please understand that I, like you, was looking for little encouragement in my personal life. This book, however, has only led to frustration. There is a lot of good in this book, but much produces cause for concern.
To suggest that a "Victoria's Secret Model" (p.45) should be one's standard for beauty is superficial at best and dangerous at worst. I have a friend who remarked that had she read this book during her more formidable years, she would have been trapped in the secular materialism evident in today's fashion-magazine culture. No one will ever look like the air-brushed women in Victoria's Secret. No one.
Another example is the author's remark: "God understands that people need nice clothes to fit into this world." (p. 170) God knows the inside of all of us. This book is detrimental, and serves to reinforce the meterialism of our present society.
Can we all look like our "favorite Victoria's Secret Model?" Should we, as believers in God, be concerned with another's appearence?
This is not the book I had anticipated. I highly recomend that you look somewhere else. Most of the book is unnecessary filler and disheartening for a Christian book.
Please understand that this is not meant to tear appart the authors. I am only concerned with the pain of women who will find this book as an unreachable standard.

Rating:
Summary: Please, rethink your potential purchase.
Review: Dear fellow searchers,
Please understand that I, like you, was looking for little encouragement in my personal life. This book, however, has only led to frustration. There is a lot of good in this book, but much produces cause for concern.
To suggest that a "Victoria's Secret Model" (p.45) should be one's standard for beauty is superficial at best and dangerous at worst. I have a friend who remarked that had she read this book during her more formidable years, she would have been trapped in the secular materialism evident in today's fashion-magazine culture. No one will ever look like the air-brushed women in Victoria's Secret. No one.
Another example is the author's remark: "God understands that people need nice clothes to fit into this world." (p. 170) God knows the inside of all of us. This book is detrimental, and serves to reinforce the meterialism of our present society.
Can we all look like our "favorite Victoria's Secret Model?" Should we, as believers in God, be concerned with another's appearence?
This is not the book I had anticipated. I highly recomend that you look somewhere else. Most of the book is unnecessary filler and disheartening for a Christian book.
Please understand that this is not meant to tear appart the authors. I am only concerned with the pain of women who will find this book as an unreachable standard.

Rating:
Summary: Balanced Life
Review: I received this as a gift a as I read the book I was able to learn how to put all aspects of my life into a "Beautiful Balance". The authors have shared personal things that they have done in their lives to help them achieve their"beautiful" bodies(what ones of us haven't taken pictures out of magazines as our goal as to what we want to look like. God doesn't ask us to be frumpy,plain women that don't care how we look, he wants us to shine for him in everything we do. This book brought out that we are to be the reflection of Christ and in my mirror of Christ he was plain or frumpy. I hope that as you read this book you can gain some things to help you achieve and maintain that "Beautiful Balance for body and soul. Well done Cynthia and Charity.

Rating:
Summary: Balanced Life
Review: I received this as a gift a as I read the book I was able to learn how to put all aspects of my life into a "Beautiful Balance". The authors have shared personal things that they have done in their lives to help them achieve their"beautiful" bodies(what ones of us haven't taken pictures out of magazines as our goal as to what we want to look like. God doesn't ask us to be frumpy,plain women that don't care how we look, he wants us to shine for him in everything we do. This book brought out that we are to be the reflection of Christ and in my mirror of Christ he was plain or frumpy. I hope that as you read this book you can gain some things to help you achieve and maintain that "Beautiful Balance for body and soul. Well done Cynthia and Charity.

Rating:
Summary: Balnced and fun!
Review: This book was a great reminder that women can strive to be beautiful while maintaining balance. I enjoyed reading it and only wished that it was longer... I'm anxiously waiting for book 2!
Cynthia and Charity would be great to have as friends! You go, girls!