A Fierce Love, Shauna Shanks
A Fierce Love, Shauna Shanks
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A Fierce Love
One Woman’s Courageous Journey to Save Her Marriage

Author: Shauna Shanks

Narrator: Sarah Zimmerman

Unabridged: 7 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/19/2019


Synopsis

Love is easy to give when you are getting it back. Are we still called to God's plan of how to love when we are getting none in return? Shauna Shanks's brave journey through obedience reveals the outcome of when we dare to follow God's ludicrous outline for love as described in 1 Corinthians 13.

Wrecked with news of her husband's affair and his request for a divorce, Shauna finds herself urgently faced with a decision. Does she give up and divorce her husband and move on, or does she try to fight for her marriage? The former choice seems to contradict God's plan for how to love, such as "love never gives up," "love is patient," and "love is kind."

Taking God at His word and assuming the love chapter was really meant to be followed literally word by word, she not only finds herself falling in love with her spouse again, but also falling in love with Jesus, which changes everything.

First Corinthians 13 presents an audacious, illogical, and irrational context of how to love, meant to be applied to every marital context not just the fairytale marriage. If God's instructions seem illogical and audacious, you might just expect the same kind of results in return!

About Shauna Shanks

Shauna Shanks is a wife, mother, and entrepreneur. She started Smallfolk, a health food cafe, out of her passion for health and fitness. She graduated from Christ for the Nations Institute in Dallas, Texas, with a focus on world missions. Shauna and her husband, Micah, who is a police officer, have been married for more than a decade, and they live with their three boys on an Ohio farm.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Heather

Woah. Mind. Blown. Every marriage should have this as required reading. My whole idea of what love looks like was turned around. Shanks speaks transparently (but not horribly graphically) about her husband's affair, and about the spiritual attacks they were both undergoing during that time. She also......more

Goodreads review by Diana

A Fierce Love is a heart wrenching memoir written by a woman on the brink of divorce. She turns to her strong Christian faith to help her through this difficult time in her life.......more