Title: The
Fruitful Wife: Cultivating a Love Only God Can Produce
Series: none
Author: Hayley DiMarco
Published Date: Sept 30, 2012
Publisher: Crossway
Format: ebook
Pages: 208
ISBN: 978-1433530708
Genre: Christian
self-help
Add to: Goodreads
Rating: 1 star
Synopsis:
Are you loving, joyful, peaceful, patient, kind, good, faithful, gentle, AND self-controlled? Most of the time?
Sometimes? How about when life gets hard or marriage gets tough? Whatever your
answer may be, the good news is that you are not alone.Best-selling author,
mother, and wife Hayley DiMarco understands the challenges we all face and
answers the question at hand: How can you be the
woman God is calling you to be—a woman who bears the fruit of the Spirit in
your marriage and in the daily grind of life? To help you grow,
Hayley explores the biblical significance of all nine fruits of the Spirit,
explaining how each fruit first begins to grow and then how each impacts your
day-to-day life and marriage. She writes like a close friend, openly sharing
stories of her own failures to be spiritually fruitful as well as her
relational struggles for control, authority, and respect. Ultimately, Hayley
teaches us how even the rockiest of marriages can blossom and generate the
fruit God intends to produce.
My Review: I
received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
First I want to start out by saying, I am not joyful, loving,
peaceful, patient, kind, good gentle, or self-controlled. But I want to be
those things! I want to be my grandmother. She had the patience of a saint, and
could get everything done without breaking a sweat, and all with a smile on her
face. Me? Not so much, I balk at housework, dig my heels in, going to it like a
cat about to face a bath and feel like the responsibility of the entire
household is on me.
So when I saw this book, I nearly jumped for joy. Finally, a
book that will show me concrete ways of being the person I want to be (and
probably my family too)! The cover was so pretty, and the promise of showing me
how to become the worker, wife and mother that I want to be, had me almost
giddy.
Oh but I was disappointed. Each chapter details the fruit of
the Holy Spirit, with much Scripture attached. The author adds in stories of
before she did whatever she did to have that particular fruit. And then she
shows how she acts now that she has done whatever it is she has done to bring
in that particular fruit, whether it be love, joy, patience, etc etc. I’m so
glad that someone was able to do that. That’s what I want to do….now how do I
do it?
That’s what’s missing! There’s nothing concrete that says,
“Hey, try x, y, and z, and it will help you to bring joy into your life.” And
that is why I give this book 1 star, without concrete methods to try, it’s just
a book of fluff.
