About the Book : (from Revell)
It takes a lifetime to know what-and who-defines you.
When Alexandra Kuykendall became a mother, she knew she had to go back to the beginning. To that hot July afternoon in Barcelona when she met her father for the first time. The only daughter of a single, world-traveling mother and an absent artist father, Alexandra embarks on a soul-searching trip into the past to make sense of the layers of her life-both the memories she experienced and the ones she wished for.
The Artist's Daughter will take you on a journey of discovery through childhood, marriage, and motherhood. Through short vignettes full of both wonder and heartache, Alexandra seeks answers to three life-defining questions: Am I lovable? Am I loved? Am I loving? If you long to better understand the path your life has taken, where it is heading, and who is guiding you, this revealing and refreshing story will push you toward those answers as it changes your heart.
My Thoughts:
“The ‘do what only you can do’ was not only about cutting
things out of my life, it was also about stepping up when it was time.” (p. 215)
“I was found before I realized how lost I was.” (p. 235)
Alexandra Kuykendall tells her own story with grace and
poignant transparency. Told in vignettes
of memory from childhood into her present adulthood, she shares a longing that
echoes deeply within all of us – a longing to be loved and cherished because …because
we are treasured as the unique creation we are in life. Alexandra learns as she grows into adulthood
that the longing can only be filled completely by our Creator. No matter what our circumstances are and no
matter what hardships we face and relationships we must navigate – no one or no
thing can fulfill us as completely and profoundly as the knowledge that we are
loved and cherished by our Creator.
Understanding that truth transforms our lives like nothing
else. Alexandra must traverse many trials in her life before
this truth is fully formed in her heart.
I was drawn to her from the first pages, and by the time I reached the
end of her story, I felt like I was enjoying a visit with a dear friend. She is like a lot of moms and wives I have known over the years, and I have had friends who shared with me like Alexandra
shared life with her friends. I
understood the overwhelming emotions, the desperate , “God change me. Change my
heart” prayers that provide an open door through which God’s transforming power
flows. I feel like I am a kindred spirit
with Alexandra.
I have been blessed by her life and her obedience to God to
share her story. I hope that you too
will choose to receive the blessing of sharing the story of her journey.
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