(taken from the inside cover)

Let your love dictate how you deal with me;
teach me from your textbook on life.
I'm your servant -- help me understand what that means,
the inner meaning of your instructions ....
Break open your words, let the light shine out,
let ordinary people see the meaning.
--Psalm 119:124-125, 130

We're all yearning for understanding -- for truth, wisdom, and hope. Whether we suffer in the simmering quiet of uncertainty or the megaphone cacophony of disbelief, we long for a better life -- a more meaningful existence. We want to be Women Who Matter. But the fog of "real life stuff" we encounter every day obscures the life we crave, so we go on with the way things are.

Sometimes we pretend we don't care.
We do.
Sometimes we pretend everything is fine.
It isn't.

The truth is, the real life stuff matters. In that fog, there are things about our husbands, our children, our friendss, our work, and, most significantly, ourselves that cause varying degrees of distress, discomfort, and disease.

The "Real Life Stuff for Women" series is a safe place for exploring truth about that fog. But it's not a typical Bible study. You won't find any fill-in-the-blank questions in these pages. Nor will you find any pat answers. It's likely you'll come away with more questions rather than fewer. But through personal reflection and -- in a small group -- lively discussion (the best part of a Bible study anyway), these books will tak eyou where you need to go and bring greater hope and meaning to your life.

Each of the books in this series provides a place to ask the hard questions of yourself an dothers, a place to find comfort in the chaos, a place to enlarge understanding, and -- with the guidance of the Holy Spirit -- a place to discover Real Life Hope that brings meaning to the everyday.