"Every woman was once a little girl. And every little girl holds in her heart her most precious dreams. She longs to be swept up into a romance, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, to BE the Beauty of the story. Those desires are far more than child's play. They are the secret to the feminine heart.
And yet - how many women do you know who ever find that life? As the years pass by, the heart of a women gets pushed aside, wounded, buried. She finds no romance except in novels, no adventure except on television, and she doubts very much that she will ever be the Beauty in any tale.
Most women think they have to settle for a life of efficiency and duty, chores and errands, striving to be the women they "ought" to be but often feeling they have failed. Sadly, too many messages for Christian women add to the pressure. "Do these ten things, and you will be a godly woman." The effect has not been good on the feminine soul.
But her heart is still there. Sometimes when she watches a movie, sometimes in the wee hours of the night, her heart begins to speak again. A thirst rises within her to find the life she was meant to live - the life she dreamed of as a little girl.
The message of Captivating is this: Your heart matters more than anything else in all creation. The desires you had as a little girl and the longings you still feel as a woman - they are telling you of the life God created you to live. He offers to come now as the Hero of your story, to rescue your heart and release you to live as a fully alive and feminine woman. A woman who is truly captivating."

...This is off the back of the book Captivating, of course! I'm sorry that my last "blogs" are on this book, and boys I'm sorry if all I talk about is women and our hearts..and mushy stuff! I'm not a girl who is trying to be all hard-core...women rights, kinda thing! God has laid a passion on my heart for women! Girls, I'm encouraging you....if you can, read this book!!!! It's amazing!!! And guys, if you'd like one of the author's of this book is John Eldredge and he wrote Wild at Heart! And that book is for men!! But talk about changing your heart and opening your eyes!! We are wounded women....I'd love for our generation of women to realize this and allow God to change our hearts!! For us to become healed, women of God and be sure of who we are and who God has made us!! Wow, wouldn't it be awesome?! So that one day when we have little girls of our own....we'll know how to help protect their hearts!! For them to grow up and know they are captivating and beautiful!! To me...that'd be awesome!! My prayer for women is that God would change our hearts! That He would heal them up! That we would realize how beautiful and presious we are!! Man, I can't even describe that passion that God has laid on my heart to inform women that WE ARE ALL beautiful!! Hummmmm....it's so easy to say this, and so easy to read something that encourages us about this kinda stuff....but it's another story when we wake up and try to believe it and remember it throughout the day, isn't it!? Something I've realized lately.....God's trying to get through to women...I've talked to several of my friends that are girls this week....and they all have something in comman! "My heart is wounded...I am wounded from the past.....I know God is trying to heal me!" (This includes myself!) ...God, may you heal up your daughters hearts...we are hurt and broken! I pray you come to our rescue!! I LOVE YOU!!!!
Well anyways...thought I'd feel ya'll in on something God laid on my heart! Not much happen today...I got my passport info sent off, should get it first week of Sept.!!! It's exciting to think in 10 weeks...my life will be turned upside down!! YAY!! I have ready the money I have to send off to make DTS a set in stone thing! lol! And!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol!!! I got this cd, which I shouldn't have because I need to SAVE my money...course I really don't know the meaning of the word...lol! But I got this cd with the song I shall someday get married to, on it!! lol! I know what your thinking...you're shaking your head and thinking, "Amber....hunny-child, you have a while!" That's right I do...but so what!! Let me be the girly-girl God made me to be! :D Well I'm goin' to bed!! Night night...sweetdreamz!!