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One Call Away (Library Edition): Answering Life's Challenges With Unshakable Faith (2011)

by Brenda Warner(Favorite Author)

4.04 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1609813529 (ISBN13: 9781609813529)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Oasis Audio

review 1: A must read! Couldn't put it down! A mother of seven children, a registered nurse and a former marine, Brenda Warner shares her incredible lifes journey up to this point through ups and downs, hardships and loss, and more trials and tribulations than most of us can imagine. Her openess, honesty, willingness to bare some of the most intimate details of her life, and her struggles and fears while overcoming many obstacles is amazing and inspiring. Her strength and her unshable faith in the face of so many challenges, tragedies and unexpected griefs is remarkable. Her story shows us that no matter what the obstacles, with faith we can, and will, overcome all of lifes challenges. Brenda is vice president of the First Things First Foundation, an organization co-founded by her... more and her husband, NFL great Kurt Warner.
review 2: I did find Brenda Warner's memoir to be a bit whiny in some parts, part CYA and passive apologies to family members she may have hurt in the past, and rushed at the end, overall I enjoyed the book. She has had some serious heartache to deal with in her life. The book focuses more on her life in the pre-Rams era, so anything Rams and after feels rushed.However, I *completely* identified with her on page 140, as I have gone through a marital breakdown while pregnant and I felt she expressed my thoughts and feelings during this time so very well- “Rejection from a husband rocks you to the core of your identity. You have to reconsider everything about yourself, everything about your partner, and everything you believed about your relationship. Once trust is destroyed, you become distrustful. It’s hard to know what’s true and what isn’t. But in that moment, I realized the trust: I was still the strong, capable, and yes, pretty woman I had always been. I was also a dedicated mother, doing what I could to serve my children and provide them the best life possible…Not did I need a man to tell me that. I was fully capable of knowing it on my own… He didn’t hold any of the answers I needed. There were all inside of me.”Not the best memoir I've ever read, but she frankly states at the end that she mostly wrote it with her children in mind to read someday, and it helps the reader to know that that is truly her audience. She is also a speaker for Women of Faith and this book fills in many of the gaps that her talk can't include.Enjoyable and quick read that gives some insight into the woman she is. less

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