Let's All Be Brave: Living Life with Everything You Have Paperback – July 15, 2014

This book really inspired me to step out in faith!Very engaging and easy to read, well written!

Fantastic bookLike having a conversation about lifeSuch an encouragement to being brave in your own season, life, community.“Don’t pack up and move to Africa to be a missionary because it’s brave only if God is asking you to do that”Our bible study group read this book 3 chapters at a time. Mixed age group of women. It was so great to see how God stirred our hearts, dreams for what we thought was brave, how we wanted to be brave and how we were or weren’t being brave now in our lives.Easy conversation as we read together.Loved her stories.Great bible study book. Good book to read in a waiting season or mundane season or a gift to a friend.Alongside the book our ladies group studied brave women of the Bible and what made them brave. I’m sure none of them felt brave at the time they were living which is similar to how we are too.

Let's All Be Brave is a book for me, and for almost everyone--it's another in a progression of autobiographical memoir-type reflections by highly committed Christians I've been reading, books by folks brave enough to open themselves up and be more than a bit vulnerable to a general public. Like a close friend who's not too clingy, Annie Downs brings the reader along as she walks, talks, and travels. From Georgia to Tennessee to Edinburgh. As she takes her portable office (laptop) into the snack emporium or coffee shop. Chapter titles are short and fun: just start; say yes; say no; hold on; let go.Annie writes about the stuff of life in an easy, natural conversational voice. Transitions, relocations, disappointments, relationships, quandaries about what now, what's next--Annie reveals her experience, her responses in the Spirit of grace, her theological and other takes on the same type of life stuff each of us has been through and know we'll deal with again. "Grace" is my word for this year 2015; in this book about bravery, Annie reminds us grace has rhythms of start, stop, race, slow down, hesitate. In Spanish "hope" and "expect" are one and the same word: espero. In essence that means hope already is almost realized whenever you claim "¡espero!" Annie tells us it's about radical hope [page 163] that I'd further describe as deeply planted, solidly-rooted, almost impossible to uproot, throw away, destroy. I'll take a bow to Annie's Wesleyan heritage and say that's prevenient grace. That's God's ongoing presence and action each of us bravely can dare to trust.I hope to be brave enough to run with the idea of someone untying my ship from the dock [page 201] and pushing it out to sea just far enough I can't quite reach back far enough to take the person's hand. Most of us bravely need to trust the breeze of the Holy Spirit to guide our little ships through the waters on to the next port of call. Annie didn't talk about it, but I know it's just fine and also brave to moor my boat at the next dock, so nothing will tempt any of us too seriously to leave new city too soon! Let's All Be Brave is one more in the short series of books I'm keeping forever and expect (hope) to pick up, pick a chapter, and again get motivated and inspired to be brave, to live in grace.

I read this book in like 2 days. I should have been doing homework. I should have been doing so many other things, but I chose to read this book because it was that captivating.I'm going to let you guys in on a little secret. This book is one of those books that you just want to swallow and keep it in your heart for like - ever. It is so encouraging, so honest, and so brave (terrible pun INTENDED).Anyways, get this book, read this book, then proceed to tell your friends, acquaintances, grocery store check out ladies, enemies, and people that you meet because of Uber about this book (I'm not limiting it to these options I was just giving some examples)

Great little study to encourage stepping out of your comfort zone. I got the devotional to go with it called 100 days to brave and it is a great companion book to spur one onto the next thing they should do. Very encouraging messages!!! Love them!

“I believe in the me God made and in the me God can make.”Annie beautifully weaves together a collection of little stories from her life and the lives of others along with stories from the Bible in Let’s All Be Brave to encourage and embolden us readers to do the same: be brave. This book felt like a big warm hug — some books with a call to action can leave you feeling sweaty and nervous — but for me, it felt like Annie was reaching out of the pages, putting her arm around me, and saying “just be brave” in what I imagine is a sweet southern accent along with a comforting smile and slightly mischievous eyes.You’ll feel like you’re catching up with a lifelong friend as you make your way through the pages of her book. Everything comes back to the main concept: be brave. I love this thought she shares — it is a great call to action, source of comfort, and pseudo-life mission: “You are one of a kind, made on purpose, deeply loved, and called to be courageous.” Young or old, I think all women will love this book!Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from the publisher through the BookLook Bloggers book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255 : “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”