This Book is for You

This is a book about falling in love with the Bible...that feels nothing like consuming a book about the Bible.

This Book Is for You will help you learn that the Bible has something life-changing to say about who you are, where you are, and the God who is in the midst of it. When you finish this book, you just might say, “I see what she did here. I didn’t realize it, but I was learning while I was laughing. She invited me into a dialogue about things I didn’t know I wanted to learn. She stirred within me a love for the Bible, but it didn’t hurt at all.”

This Book Is for You invites you into the author’s life using stories, humor, and charm, revealing how the Bible has become Tricia Lott Williford’s daily lifeline. Regardless of your notions of the Bible, Tricia will help you engage with it as a living, meets-me-where-I’m-at thing.

Tricia is not a seminarian. She is a lover of God’s word. She is not a highbrow academician. She is educated as a grade school teacher who sometimes uses comic relief to make her point. She is not a theologian, a Bible teacher, or even a Bible scholar. Tricia is a lover of messy people; a mom of two teenage boys who are likely late for school and wearing mismatched socks. She has been known to absent-mindedly doodle in the margins of overdue library books. She has battled depression and anxiety to degrees that have nearly drowned her. She has begged the Lord for miracles that only he could provide. And somewhere in the midst of all that, she fell hopelessly in love with the word of God as a light to her next step and the air for her next breath.

Now Tricia wants you to experience this, too.

1. Opening Credits
2. Dedication
3. Introduction: This Book Is for You
4. Chapter 1: Let's Start at the Very Beginning: Claiming a Posture
5. Chapter 2: But Maybe Don't Start at the Very Beginning: Figuring Out What to Read
6. Chapter 3: Modern-Day Psalmist: Make It Yours
7. Chapter 4: How Is This "a Future and a Hope"?: Understand the Promises
8. Chapter 5: After the Earthquake: Unbuilding to Rebuild
9. Chapter 6: When I Didn't Know: Discovering the Only Rule That Really Matters
10. Chapter 7: Imagine that Dinner Table: Know the People
11. Chapter 8: Even If He Doesn't: When God Says No
12. Chapter 9: In the Margins of Your Actual Days: For When You Have No Time
13. Chapter 10: Fear: The Inhale and Exhale of Truth
14. Chapter 11: Worship: Living Out of the Overflow
15. Chapter 12: Together Work: That Time with the Loaves and the Fishes
16. Chapter 13: Quicksand: When You Know Just What to Say
17. Epilogue
18. Fifteen Things to Know As You Navigate the Bible
19. Closing Credits