title: Confessions from an Honest Wife: On the Mess, Mystery & Miracle of Marriage
author:  Sarah Zacharias Davis 
description: First-time author Davis, daughter of the highly regarded evangelical apologist Ravi Zacharias, delivers hefty contemplation on marriage as she superbly showcases the personal journeys of 20 married women. Davis emulates the 1960s consciousness-raising groups where women aimed to explore their lives with honesty and share in the commonality of life's experiences. Tackling the "heart" issues like sex, intimacy and forgiveness with refreshing frankness, Davis says healthy wives become more fluid over time, take risks by trusting with abandon and stay faithful even when emotional excitement is replaced by a calm rapport. One of her most poignant and telling chapters recounts the story of a woman whose life has been characterized by abuse. She is traveling to a new job, yet of all the things she might desire (house, finances, security, the return of her children from foster care), she longs for physical beauty and the power it confers. Davis's real-life composite characters are transparent in their story telling, not pretending to have all the answers, and this single ingredient makes the book all the more compelling. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: > RACHEL GIBSON
  
    
  
  SEE JANE SCORE
  
  > > “This is not a good idea.”
  
  > “What? Bringing me home?”
  
  > “No.” He pulled her against him and lowered his face to hers. “You’ve been
  > driving me crazy. With your hair that makes me wonder what it’d feel like
  > tangled around my fingers. Your red lips and your little red dress give me
  > all kinds of crazy ideas. Stuff I shouldn’t think about you, but I am.
  > Questions that are better left alone.”
  
  > His blue eyes stared into hers, hot and intense. “But I can’t leave them
  > alone,” he whispered against her mouth. “So tell me, Jane, are you cold?”
  > His lips brushed hers and he said through a hot breath, “Or turned on?”
  
  > Then he kissed her, and the shock stunned her for several seconds. She could
  > do nothing more than just stand there as he placed tender kisses on her
  > lips.
  
  > She definitely was not cold.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
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