Love Warrior

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I take a beer into the shower, close my eyes, and let the water run over me, washing away the previous night’s grime and sex and shame.

At the heart of this story is the insistence that we don't have to settle we can explore our shadows, and we re not just going to survive it, but we re going to come out the other side a whole new person with new love, new hope, new strength, and maybe even a new marriage. In February, I traded in the gloomy winter skies of Amsterdam to spend two weeks in sunny, tropical Costa Rica. Where Untamed seems like the sequel to this work, Love Warrior sets the scene, and by the end, its clear that Glennon is still struggling to reach any clarity or conclusion about what went wrong with her marriage.Using a questionable translation of the Hebrew word ezer as “warrior” rather than “helper” to describe women in Genesis 2, she concludes God made her a warrior, and she deems herself a Love Warrior. It reminded me of a scene in the book of Acts when Peter and John are testifying to a court that wants to kill them and they say, “we cannot but speak of what we have seen and what we have heard. She has reached a depth of truth and power and emotional gravity that is rarely seen in the world, and even more rarely spoken aloud. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Soon after my release from the mental hospital, I sit on the edge of a convertible in a pretty blue suit, waving to crowds of people lining the sidewalks for the homecoming parade.

There is them and there is me and I can’t fit into their world and they cannot, should not, go with me into mine.But then, over the summer between middle school and high school, my skin clears up a bit and I find clothes that hide my barely existent heft. In the brave and bold telling of her story, Glennon shows us just how damaging it can be to live in an environment where we’re told that certain emotions are good, while others are bad. If there was a picture of my life’s path you would see our footprints side by side and then you’d notice that one day I sat down in the sand and refused to travel any farther. My childhood beauty is apparent in pictures: golden brown ringlets to my waist, porcelain skin, a smile as wide as the horizon, and bright hazel eyes.

And still, one evening, she sat on the edge of my bed, looked up at me with naked brown eyes, and said, "I'm big, Mama. I read it cover to cover in 48 hours with a pen in my hand writing 'This' in the margins as I came across something that chimed deeply with me, another thing I knew, but hadn't found the words for yet. I want them to see the beauty and power that come from healing their relationship with themselves, which Glennon describes as becoming a “Love Warrior.

Maybe the beautiful girls will have me if I just wear the right costume, smile more, laugh right, watch the leader's cues, and show no mercy, no vulnerability.