Passionate Housewives Desperate for God: Fresh Vision for the Hopeful Homemaker

The sin of alcoholism in my fathers life led to my mother leaving him when I was less than 6 months old. She walked several miles with 3 children under 3 to the nearest phone booth and called my grandfather to come and pick her up. Hours later in a fury, my father followed us to my grandparents house and proceeded to shoot my grandfather five times. Thankfully he survived and we had already been swept away to a far off town where we couldn't be hurt. My father went to jail for attempted murder and my mother divorced him. By the time I was two, my mother had found the perfect man and remarried. He later adopted me when I was in first grade and is the only father I have ever know and loved! He too had been divorced and had three children from his previous marriage. My dad was an honest man who lived up to his responsibilities and a great deal of his paycheck went to pay child support. You can't exactly get child support from a man in prison though and so my mom had to get a job to help pay the bills. My mother worked full time. My father worked full time and a part time job in the evenings cleaning banks, to which he took us with to help out. I tell you all of this history because it is important for me to tell you I did not have a stay at home mom who taught me all the ins and outs of cooking and cleaning and sewing and taking care of my family. It doesn't mean she didn't love us but she was on such a tight schedule of sneaking in a few hours of sleep between 2 am and 7 am and getting the rest of her daily chores done before having to be at work by 1 p.m. that she didn't have time to teach us. She just had to get it done! My father taught us kids the basics of cleaning and some cooking. I knew how to cook when I got married because I had worked in a restaurant for two years but I was not used to the role of Ms Happy Homemaker. Top that off with marrying into a family where everyone seemed to be in competition to be the best, or enjoyed showing off all their many artistic talents, to which you had nothing to "trump" them with, and it led to feeling pretty downtrodden and worthless. Many times I couldn't even figure out why my husband had liked me, let alone fallen in love with me when there were obviously so many better examples of a perfect housewife and mother all around us. I thought, "How in the world did he end up with me?" Passionate Housewives Desperate for God is one of the few books I have ever read that helped me lay aside my doubts of self worth as a mother, as a teacher, as a wife. I don't have to be perfect. God doesn't ask that of me. He only asks that I give Him my best and to let Him work that into His best! This books tells me I don't have to give up outward beauty and become a matronly homemaker in order to be beautiful for God but that I can be both beautiful on the inside and the outside. This book tells me I do not have to go about my daily chores as a Stepford wife, living life in a robotic vacuum, but that I can abide sa

"Passionate Housewives" is an uplifting book full of witty anecdotes, timeless truths, and applicable advice. Though the reader might not agree with everything Mrs. Chancey and Mrs. McDonald believe as far as certain lifestyle choices and church structure, she (or he) will be hard-pressed to find doctrinal fallacies or religious heresies. Anyone who is seriously searching for a refreshing take on being a better mother, wife, and daughter of God will find innumerable nuggets of wisdom in its pages. Highly recommended.

"Passionate Housewives Desperate for God," is the most encouraging, uplifting, challenging, and convicting book on the subject of womenhood that I've ever had the priviledge of reading. Scripturally based, not high, lofty and unattainable, Jennie and Stacy have, in their different chapters, used their understanding, and experiences in their own seasons of life to encourage us all, as Christian wives and mothers to set our purpose to be the women that the Lord has called us to be, not by the culture of our time. Being the mother of 7, grandmother of 4, wife of 34 years, homeschooling for 24 years and first generation Christian I applaud them for showing from Scripture what a high calling it is and know it will be a refreshing blessing to all who read it.