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Craving Grace: A Story of Faith, Failure, and My Search for Sweetness ReviewShortly before I read Craving Grace, I read a profound blog post by Lisa that encapsulates exactly what her memoir succeeds in doing:
"To write one's self honestly -- to take a day, a month, a year, whatever, and record what actually happened -- is not a pretty experience. ...At a most basic level, each of us would like to believe that we are not so flawed as our actions would prove. We'd like to believe we are better, and we'd like to be seen as better. But the gospel of Christ can free us from the desire to masquerade. ...His light falls on and around and through our sinful realities, and that illuminated darkness is a story worth telling every time. His presence puts meaning in our unseemly and bare details, and makes them spellbinding."
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That's the beauty of Craving Grace. As the spotlight falls on Lisa, most of the time, it doesn't flatter her. Instead, the stories she tells magnify Christ and the sweetness of His grace.
"Courageous" is one of the words that came to mind most frequently, in light of Lisa's transparency. For her to recount her deepest thoughts the way she did took a lot of humility. The specificity with which Lisa shares the ugliness of her heart is often uncomfortable--because it is familiar. But Lisa isn't just honest for authenticity's sake; she uses her stories to relate the beautiful truths she learned about God along the way.
A couple of concerns: First, it felt like Lisa was awfully derogatory toward her first book Saving My First Kiss: Why I'm Keeping Confetti in My Closet. In her desire to emphasize grace and tear down the "good Christian girl who has to earn God's favor" religion she'd built, she almost seemed to tear down what I think is still valid, not-necessarily-legalistic advice about purity and premarital relationships.
Second, while the gospel *was* very clear, Lisa seemed to define sin solely on a horizontal level. Any talk of sin was focused on screwing up in relationships with other people; there wasn't mention of the underlying idolatry, of sin as an offense against God. While I think that's a serious point of theology, I recognize this is a memoir, not a theological treatise.
Overall, it's a lovely book. The chapter titles alone were brilliant, and the writing delivered on what the table of contents promised. Many times I marked poignant turns of phrase and vivid metaphors. Lisa provides lots of sweet morsels to chew on in her narratives about encountering the God of extravagant grace.
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