One Brick At A Time: Breaking Down Wall Of Bitterness And Learning To Trust God

One Brick at a Time is Elaine Oostra's life story from childhood to now. She shares her fond and some time humorous memories of childhood as well as the struggles of growing up with a Mom who suffered from mental illness. She goes into depth of what it took to overcome trying and difficult times. She confronts the walls we can put around ourselves for protection from present or past hurts inflicted by others , or, our own regrets we want to keep secret. The building materials for the wall is bitterness , guilt , and anger. The mortar that holds the bricks in place is fear. There is nothing attractive about these walls, no matter how pretty we try to make them. We decorate them with pretty clothes , makeup, work, education , doing good deeds , and much more. The walls we build shut out others and God. Secrets kept buried deep inside destroy us from the inside out. We think we hide things well, yet they seep out of us in our actions and character and cling to us like a static dress.One Brick at a Time offers hope for those who are in bondage to bitterness and past pain and are longing to overcome and be set free. It offers hope to learn to trust God and tear down these walls one brick at a time. Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding , but in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths.

• | Author: Elaine Oostra
• | Publisher: Elaine Oostra
• | Publication Date: Mar 11, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 211 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0997231602
• | ISBN-13: 9780997231601