Encouraging and Uplifting Book Every Teen Girl Needs to Read

I was incredibly impressed with this very easy to read and very profound work of fiction which was based on a true event from history. These are the types of lessons, filled with emotion of which I was speaking in my last two blogs.

“A person, whether king or peasant, can surround himself with many, and still be lonely. He needs that one rare person, one to confide in and with whom he can be at ease.” Hadassah was that one rare person in whom King Ahasuerus found the answer to his loneliness and Jim Baumgardner tells the story of how she was brought to him, prepared for him and became his queen in “Esther Queen of Persia: A Courageous Woman for a Dangerous Time.” Being taken from the home of her cousin, Mordecai, who took her into his home and raised her since she was a child, Esther was placed in the care of Hegai who was tasked with preparing her along with hundreds of other virgins who were being prepared for the same purpose. Hadassah stood out beyond all of them and was given the name, Esther (which means star), because she was brighter and more lovely than all of the rest. Little did Esther know, as she spent her days being made ready to be presented before the king, that God was preparing to use her and her cousin to bring about great things on behalf of his people; Israel.

Jim Baumgardner has done a fantastic job in bringing the life and emotion to the characters and plots from his fictional account of a part of history in “Esther Queen of Persia: A Courageous Woman for a Dangerous Time.” The demonstration not only of the faith of the servants of the Lord in the characters of Esther and Mordecai first rate, but the demonstration of the power of God to prepare things years in advance to be used at the appointed time bears witness to his might. Inspiring, emotional and uplifting; “Esther Queen of Persia: A Courageous Woman for a Dangerous Time” will bless you in a real and profound way. Every man’s daughter ought to have a copy as a means of encouraging their faith and as a demonstration of what qualities inspire true beauty.