1. Finding Spiritual Whitespace: Awakening Your Soul to Rest
    Bonnie Gray
    Revell / 2014 / Trade Paperback
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  1. Debi Schuhow
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    Raw but comforting
    August 8, 2014
    Debi Schuhow
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    This book was hard for me to read, I could only read in small chunks. This book reads like Bonnie is drinking coffee with you at the kitchen table while Jesus whispers "You are my princess and I love you."

    This opinion is my own, while part of the book launch team I bought my own book.
  2. mom2boys
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    A must read for the weary heart looking for rest
    June 18, 2014
    mom2boys
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    Finding Spiritual Whitespace was not what I was expecting. I expected a book that would suggest things to do to prepare our minds and souls for rest. What I found however was even better. It is a touching, personal story by Bonnie Gray, an author who steps out of her comfort zone to share her story so others too can find their spiritual whitespace.

    Bonnie writes with such a personal voice that reading the book is like having taken her hand and letting her guide you on your path to find rest. Many of her words resonated with me. She knows that to find rest you also must find your own personal definition of "self" as defined by God as demonstrated by her writing, "I'm learning to give myself permission to explore who I am as the beloved". Wow! What a gift to give yourself.

    Bonnie acknowledges the fact that Jesus cares about us where we're at and encourages us to give ourselves compassion, to believe that we can trust someone else to be with us the way we are...as is. These are God's words spoken to a tired woman's soul.

    I think many women are hardest on themselves. They find it difficult to cut themselves slack. Bonnie encourages the reader to try to herself as Christ sees her, to allow herself to trust him to love her as sge is and to give herself compassion i.e., "cut herself some slack". Without these, Finding Virtual Whitespace is nigh unto impossible. These are vital to rest and when we do these things we are on the path to rest and truly Finding Spiritual Whitespace.

    If you long to move beyond surviving to a rejuvenating place of soul rest, Finding Spiritual Whitespace will help you move beyond surviving to a place of thriving.
  3. Deanna Wiseburn
    Randleman, NC
    Age: 35-44
    Gender: female
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    This book should come with a warning label
    June 16, 2014
    Deanna Wiseburn
    Randleman, NC
    Age: 35-44
    Gender: female
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    Do you find yourself often worn out from your busy life? Are you struggling just to keep up, and often feeling like you are failing at that? There is hope for regaining the peace that your life needs. Bonnie Gray has written an achingly beautiful book that will guide you as you make space for spiritual whitespace. "Spiritual whitespace makes room in our hearts for a more intimate relationship with God, rest, and soul rejuvenation." I couldn't wait to begin this book, because I knew that I needed to work on rest.

    Yet I had no idea how very much I would REALLY need to read this book. Bonnie's writing is raw in its vulnerability, and somehow her very honest words touch something deep inside her readers. They challenge us to unlock ourselves from our self-imposed prisons, ones that we never meant to create, but somehow do not know how to get beyond. I have only recently heard of Bonnie Gray, and so I knew nothing really about her before getting this book. Yet reading this was like finding a sister of the soul. Our stories are very different and yet her story spoke to hidden places in me, in ways that I could never have anticipated. She reaches to you right in the midst of your messy life, and offers reassurance and practical steps to move from where you are to true soul rest.

    This book is not written as a list of things to do. Instead Bonnie shares her story in such a way that you are drawn in, and may even feel as she did. Her story involves PTSD and childhood trauma, and really pulls at the heartstrings. While I have loved and hated reading this book, I want to warn future readers that if you have any areas in your life that you have not yet dealt with, be prepared that you will find healing for that while reading this. I loved the book, but I did not always love or even like having to take a look into why some of it affected me the way that it did. I thought that I had dealt with some of this in the past...yet as I read, I found that there were some places that I had kept closed off and had not allowed to heal properly.

    At the end of every chapter are areas to allow you to go deeper with you own search for spiritual whitespace. The first section invites you to share with Jesus, and with others if you choose. The second section "A whitespace prompt" gives you a chance to try this for yourself. The third section prompts you to confide in Jesus. However the real meaning of the story is about rest. Some of the prompts were not easy for me, and there was some that I actually couldn't seem to do this time as I read it, I trust that in time God will help. But Bonnie's heart is not that you would find yourself frustrated by this, but that you would allow yourself grace and simply sit and marinate with Jesus and find what works for you.

    I have read of many lives that have been changed by reading this book, and I know that I will need to read it more than once. I'll be honest, I am a few chapters from being finished, but that is because I have needed to stop and savor parts of it, and to allow myself to journal through it and process the feelings that came up. I am already seeing some changes in my own life as a result of this book. I am learning how to release the expectations of what rest and spiritual whitespace "should" look like and simply make room for Jesus to meet me "As Is".

    This book has a beautiful cover that invites rest, but it is also a tad deceitful in the fact that it hides within its pages words that will pierce you to the core. Inviting you to open the parts of yourself that you didn't even know that you had closed off, or the parts that you thought could never be changed and shows you the freedom that is possible. Be aware that as you begin this journey to spiritual whitespace that you may find yourself busier than before, or you may find that you become undone as you process the message in its pages. It will be well worth the journey!!

    This book was received for free from Revell Publishing in exchange for my honest review.
  4. Sufficient in Jesus
    Age: 18-24
    Gender: female
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    Rest.... Come all who are weary, and receive Rest.
    June 16, 2014
    Sufficient in Jesus
    Age: 18-24
    Gender: female
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    We we live in a world that says busier is better, multi-tasking equals maturity, and you can rest when you're dead.

    We're also told to leave the past behind, sponge away our bad memories, and be decorously positive even if it's fake.

    Imagine Bonnie Gray, a Christ-follower, wife, mother, and blogger at FaithBarista . com. Imagine beginning a book about the need for whitespace in our lives, about making room for spiritual beauty, rest and peace. You would think that writing such a book would be a restful experience right there, but it wasn't. When Bonnie began writing, the worst panic attacks she had never even thought of came along with the words, and along with the attacks came old memories.

    When this book came from Revell for review, I gave it to my Mother first. She has had panic attacks, and when she (rarely) reveals her experience implicit question linger: "Why would YOU have panic attacks? You're all grown up, you've got your own family. You're not a returned soldier, you're a Stay at Home Mom. You don't deserve to have PTSD. So you had a bad childhood? Too bad! Focus on the happy memories. Parental alcoholism and feelings of abandonment, well, that's just how it was done Back Then. That's no reason to wig-out on us now."

    It has taken Mom years to come to this conclusion: If you tell me to forget the past, you're telling me that God wasn't there with me in those times. And you're telling me that some part's of me and my life are too broken for God to repair.

    That's kind of what Bonnie learned... It's Ok to admit you are wounded, as long as you give the wounds to Jesus and let Him carry you when the journey to healing is hard.

    Mom loved following Bonnie's story, because this isn't a self-help book, it's a book of personal sharing. This story is inspiring because Bonnie is honest, and it deeply impacted my mother. When she gave me back a much-dogeared volume and a glowing endorsement, I knew we had acquired a keeper.

    What if what we all really need is rest, right now, in the present? What if we need to learn how to rest right in the middle of our grateful and messy and laughing and aching and broken and hopeful lives, right here in whatever this is?

    I think I'm going to give copies of Finding Spiritual Whitespace to family members.

    Thank you Revell Reads Blog Program for giving me my copy.
  5. joeym11
    Indiana
    Age: 55-65
    Gender: female
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    wonderful story
    June 10, 2014
    joeym11
    Indiana
    Age: 55-65
    Gender: female
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    Finding Spiritual Whitespace: Awakening Your Soul to Rest

    By: Bonnie Gray

    I have to start off saying when joining the group to read this book I had no clue where it was going. What is whitespace? I am glad I agreed to read it. I saw pictures of myself in this book. Some aspects of my life the same some different. I'm not going to say what the Whitespace is this book is a book needs to be read by all. I read this book in one night. It is a book you will not put down.

    How many of us find ourselves running on empty with no time for rest, no time for ourselves, no time for God? I know I feel that way sometimes. I try giving my problems with the Lord. I know I get anxiety attacks. I wish I would of had this in 1997 when I had a break down. I do not remember much at all of that year. The anxiety's was beating me. This book would of helped me. I suggest of you have any troubles get this book find your Spiritual Whitespace.

    Bonnie Gray knows what that's like. On the brink of fulfilling a lifelong dream, she saw her plans shatter into a journey through painful memories and anxiety. In her search for answers, she made an important discovery: we all need spiritual whitespace.

    I like how the book was set up in different parts. The discussion of the topic then , Pull up Chair and Share, A Whitespace Prompt, and then A Soul Conversation- Confide in Him. Places we can be a part of and relate with. Great book get it! Must read !!
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