Heart-Work

From a House of Sand to One That Stands

De: Shanna M. Neal

Narrado por: Regina Nelson

Heart-Work is is defined most like it sounds: a willing work within the heart with the one who created it. Heart-Work is an intimate look at matters of the heart. The inner workings of it determine what we build our life upon.

As you journey through this book, you will get a close look at a heart that experienced love but was also devastated by an encounter with loss. This heart experienced such disappointment that eventually found it bound up by fear. Although committed to living a life of purpose in God, you can still find yourself veering off course.

Walk alongside me in this book and discover the process of what a house built on sand can look like. Heart-Work gives personal accounts that begin with where home originates for us through the heart’s first encounter with pain and its response to it. It furthermore reveals the process of survival and self-preservation as children that we subconsciously and instinctively cling to as the house within our heart gets formed.

You are invited to go deeper in introspection in your own life and discover your own internal mechanisms of identity-forming decision-making in the trappings of temporal and self-protective substitutes. However, within each chapter there is an even greater invitation to experience a more intimate encounter of healing and freedom through simple ingredients of humility, gratitude, and repentance.

Although simple doesn’t always mean easy, you can discover what “thank you" and "I’m sorry” can do for your heart’s condition through many of life’s most devastating storms. In the end you can have a house that stands firm through it all.

©2022 Shanna M. Neal (P)2023 Shanna M. Neal

Awesome book!

Awesome book! The author was very vulnerable in the book. It helped to be honest with myself about how past experiences made me close off my heart.

Resetting bones in order to heal

This book feels like the resetting of a broken bone. It challenges and even hurts, but it brings incredible healing and wholeness. Shanna is amazingly transparent and honest, giving you freedom to be honest with yourself and with God. I love that she takes off the “author hat” at the end of each chapter to process what was shared as with a friend. I recommend it fully, but know that it will expose areas that God wants to heal. Trust the process.