Grace in High Heels: Real-life reflections of humor, hope and healing

by Shannon Perry

Overview

Have you ever... -entangled yourself in a toilet paper holder in a public bathroom? -had a horse use your car hood as a salt lick? -left a sandwich in your purse for over a month? -gotten your car stuck in the middle of a wedding reception in the bride's front lawn? These are just a few hilarious snapshots in the life of speaker/singer Shannon Perry. By sharing real-life moments of amusement and awkwardness, Shannon manages to find spiritual lessons in the midst of everyday life. "Grace in High Heels" offers 28 upbeat stories of humor, hope and healing to help you live out your walk of faith. By taking an honest look at the absurd, sad, comical and mundane things that women face on a daily basis, Shannon offers practical, scripture-based advice on how to face life's challenges with grace by walking on the path marked by God's heel prints. If you ever feel like "Raggedy Ann in a Barbie Doll World," these real-life reminders will refresh, restore and renew your faith.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781460916568
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	03/15/2011
Pages:	196
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.42(d)

About the Author

Shannon Perry is a speaker/singer whose new If The Shoe Fits women's conferences combine her teaching prowess with her musical talent. Perry's new music CD "The Real Thing" (produced by Lifeway writer/producer Paul Marino) features songs specifically written to fit in with the theme of the conferences. Perry wrote the bulk of the original presentation in hospital waiting rooms while her husband was undergoing cancer treatment.
Perry earned her Master's Degree in Education with an emphasis in counseling and taught in the public school system for over fourteen years before entering into full-time ministry. She has previously-released music projects with both Daywind and Benson Records which garnered radio airplay on the national Christian charts. She has performed with the Houston Symphony, appeared at Carnegie Hall, and sang before 70,000 fans during a Houston Texans NFL game. She has been a featured soloist at the J&J Music Conferences in Houston, Texas, and led praise and worship at numerous women's conferences and for the national Lifeway conferences held annually in New Mexico and North Carolina.
Perry is a contributing writer for Crosswalk.com, one of the largest Christian websites in the world with over 24 million page views per month. She has contributed articles to various publications including Christian Voice Magazine, Christian Women of Today, among others. Shannon hosts her own talk show on BlogTalkRadio.com and is currently working on a television pilot. For more information, visit ShannonPerry.com.

Table of Contents

Forward 15

Prologue 17

Section 1 Goody Two Shoes

"Bad Hair Day" 23

1 Learning to Praise on Bad Hair Days 25

2 Raggedy Ann in a Barbie Doll World 29

3 Planes, Strings and Toilet Paper Rolls 33

4 Put It Down! 37

5 Who's the Boss? 41

6 All But One 47

7 Let Go of the Trigger 53

Section 2 Is there a Hole in Your Sole?

"Keep on Pressing On" 59

8 Power in the Holes 61

9 The Ride 65

10 Four-Word Prayer 73

11 All the Single Ladies 77

12 The Rest of the Story 83

13 Those Glittering Tears 91

14 Broken Pieces 97

Section 3 Lacing Up the Tongue

"Words" 105

15 To Judge or Not to Judge 107

16 Slimy Slander 113

17 The Nasty Chain 119

18 The Pretty Tongue 125

19 Hearing from God 131

20 Careful What You Chew On 137

21 Jesus on My Street 141

Section 4 Walk a Mile in My Shoes

"The Real Thing" 147

22 Oooh That Smell 149

23 Love Ruts 155

24 Get Under the Umbrella 159

25 A Mother's Prayer 167

26 Row Three 173

27 It's All in a Name 181

28 Finish Strong 185

About the Author 189

More Inspirational Resources 191