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Shannon Kubiak is a bride-to-be, a woman called to ministry, and a twenty-something who remembers what it's like to be a teen. She understands that the life of a Christian is something that one is called to, but that it can be difficult to live out.
Kubiak doesn't pull any punches in God Called A Girl. Using Mary's life as a backdrop to explain the difficulties of life lived in God's service, Shannon tells the girls who read this book that they can't do anything less.
God will make a difference in your life, if you let Him. You can live a good, moral life despite the roadblocks the outside world puts in your path - and it will. Kubiak takes examples from her own life, Mary's, and other female Christian soldiers to bolster the girls reading this work.
Personally, as a thirty-something mother of two who grew up Catholic but isn't even nominally Christian any longer, I didn't expect to like this book as much as I did. I found Kubiak's compassion for teens quite encouraging. She doesn't preach so much as teach and share her secrets with these girls like she would with her girlfriends at a slumber party. I found myself tearing up in parts of this book, wishing I had the same strength of faith that she or Mary did.
God Called a Girl is a wondrous book, one that I hope to share with my daughter when she's a bit older. It's an empowering book about faith, hope and most of all, love. Girls need more books like this one.
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God Called A Girl: How Mary Changed Her World And You Can Too