The inspiring true story of Angela Williams, daughter of a wealthy British lord, who exchanged ballgowns for boots to help women of the red-light district discover beauty beyond labels as she journeys from extravagant life to extravagant love.

God's love is vast, boundless, extravagant! How shall we measure it? How shall we respond?

Have you ever been loved with “skimpy love”? Or has your love for someone else seemed to shrivel? Enter the world of God’s extravagant love: It is beyond measure. Careful study of God’s Word, along with delving into ancient customs and symbols from Biblical times, helps us understand His passionate love for all He has created. Sometimes, extravagance is found in the simple things of daily life. We usually think of “extravagance” as spending excessively on material goods. So to use that term for an itinerant teacher who had only one change of clothes and depended on others for food and a place to lay His head seems a stretch. Yet Jesus was the most extravagant person who ever lived. To understand that, we have to revise our notion of “extravagance,” focusing on intangible qualities like thoughtfulness, caring, and humility. In this remarkably imaginative book, Carole Engle Avriett guides you through the agriculture, diet, and commerce of Jesus’s culture to shed new light on God’s nature. Reading it, you will gain a deeper understanding of God’s love—a love of astonishing extravagance.

You are deeply loved by God. You are very dear to Him. He absolutely adores you! You are His most precious creation. You are His beautiful child. You are His beloved.

This is an extravagant love story of a woman who loved too much all the wrong people, places, and things. To be hungry for love was all she could think of. Who would love her unconditionally? Who would understand the depth of her heart? Who would deliver her from herself? She has never experienced such a divine love as that with Jesus Christ. She needed a father so desperately that she looked for love in men who were twice her age. She couldnaEUR(tm)t fill that empty spot until she met the one who made her heart the lover of her soul, the Father that she needed and so much more. She has never been the same after she met Jesus Christ. As you read, you will discover the depth of the love of the Father God, our Papa, our Abba.

In baptism we are all plunged into the self-emptying life of Jesus, and we are called to live our lives in this way of love. Ruth Burrows draws together insights from Scripture and theology, as well as her experience as a Carmelite for seventy years.

DIVAwakened to deeper love for God by a revelation of His passionate love for us./div