So Long Status Quo: What I Learned From Women Who Changed the World

by Susy Flory

Overview

Susy Flory's life was a lot like her couch-comfy, slumberous, and safe. She was a happy suburban wife and mom who enjoyed her couch-like cocoon and avoided suffering and uncomfortable situations at all costs. Then she met Rosie... Eleanor... Elizabeth... and Jane. Now, thanks to their example, her life will never be the same. So Long, Status Quo is the powerful story of how nine amazing historical women inspired a suburban mom to abandon her safe, sheltered, vanilla existence for a life of passion, service, and significance. With challenging insight and honesty, Susy Flory shares about her struggles with selfishness and complacency and tells how the lives of these fascinating women challenged her to get up off her couch and embark on a quest for something more. Venturing into unusual and even dangerous places, she followed their example and found herself serving needy children on a secret humanitarian mission to Cuba, feeding the homeless, sharing her faith in pagan communities, and selling her jewelry to fund freshwater wells in Darfur, Sudan. Inspiring, convicting, and transformational, So Long, Status Quo challenges women to examine their lives and answer this question: what are you doing to get God's work done in the world? Whether it's by sharing your faith like Perpetua or getting your hands dirty like Rosie the Riveter, Susy's story invites women of all ages to say goodbye to their old, couch-comfy lives and become women who make a difference in their world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780834125391
Publisher:	Nazarene Publishing House
Publication date:	05/01/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	649 KB

Table of Contents

Foreword 9

Acknowledgments 11

Introduction 13

1 Jewelry for Water: How I Sacrificed My Possessions, like Harriet Tubman 19

2 Faith Unleashed: How I Shared My Faith with Pagans, like Perpetua 31

3 Fast and Furious: How I Practiced Self-denial, like Mother Teresa 45

4 Children in a Dump Truck: How I Traveled to Help Children, like Eleanor Roosevelt 59

5 Life, Unplugged: How I Practiced Devotion, like Mary Magdalene 73

6 Slag in Your Ear: How I Worked with My Hands, like Rosie the Riveter 87

7 Chickens in the House: How I Helped Outcasts, like Elizabeth Fry 97

8 Meeting the Extended Family: How I Learned to Respect Other Christians, like Queen Elizabeth I 111

9 Ink Power: How I Wrote to Change the World, like Jane Austen 125

10 Start a Little Adventure: You Don't Have to Be Wonder Woman 137

Appendix 1 The Adventure Continues: What Can I Do Next? 141

Appendix 2 Quick Bios on Women Who Changed the World 143

Notes 153

For Further Reading 157