Review: The Dream of You: Let Go of Broken Identities and Live the Life You Were Made for

The Dream of You: Let Go of Broken Identities and Live the Life You Were Made for by Jo Saxton
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I received this book from Waterbrook, the publisher, and read it as part of the launch team.

As I read, I doubted that I was the target audience. I thought I had already "let go of broken identities," as the subtitle reads.

The closing chapter helped me see that there were still some broken identities that I was hanging on to. Then the epilogue had me crying beautiful tears of recognition that who I am, right now, is the person I was created and redeemed to be. Even with all my flaws and areas where I am still a work-in-progress.

Jo Saxton gave me permission to live my life.

Her parting words reminded me of a prayer I prayed almost 18 years ago as I finished Beth Moore's Breaking Free Bible study. That prayer has been answered in ways I could not have imagined then. I am healed, free, and my life has been transformed by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Like a liberated oak tree, I am a strong, mature display of God's splendor, just as I prayed to be all those years ago.

Somehow, I thought I had to have every aspect of my life all tidied up in a neat little package with a bow on top before I could claim my spot in His Kingdom. I still felt like I needed to earn my place at His table, to earn my keep. That belief was the root of the broken identity I needed to shed so I could live the life I was made to live. Who knew? HE DID, of course, and this book couldn't have entered my life in a more timely season.

Thank you, Jo Saxton, from the bottom of my heart. I saw myself in the mirror today and I LOOK JUST FINE! I found the keys and I'm ready to go.


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