The Cost of Control - by Sharon Hodde Miller

Great insight and well written. I wish the whole Church could read this one.

This book is helping me undergo a major paradigm shift with how I understand my relationship to control. I never thought about myself as someone who struggles with control, but reading this has opened my eyes to all of its subtle manifestations and to the ways that it offers the opposite of what it promises. Control does bad work and leads to increased anxiety and helplessness. By contrast, a life that is properly rooted in intentionality and trust in God leads to real freedom, peace and joy. I highly recommend!

Sharon Hodde Miller offers clear and urgent insight for those, like me, who pay a high cost for control and are still lacking but mystified as to why. This book offers sound biblical teaching and a wonderful, down-to-earth, message of hope that there are things I can learn (and unlearn) to make today a day with more of Jesus in my relationships. Hope for today to be a day with more of Jesus in me. I'm eager to gather a group to work through this book together. Thank you, Sharon!