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    My Name is Erin: One Girl's Journey to Discover Who She Is
    My Name is Erin: One Girl's Journey to Discover Who She Is
    My Name is Erin: One Girl's Journey to Discover Who She Is
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    My Name is Erin: One Girl's Journey to Discover Who She Is

    By Erin Davis

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    Come meet Erin. Like you, she has struggled with many questions about being a girl.

    • Why does it matter that God created men and women?
    • Why did God make guys and girls so different?
    • Why does gender (that’s just a fancy word for the traits that make girls girls and boys boys) matter anyway?


    In this book, Erin sets out on a journey to learn from God’s Word who she is. After all, God is the one who made her and the only One who can really answer her questions.

    She learns that whether you’re a mega tomboy, a pretty-pretty princess, or someone somewhere in between, God has a plan for your girlhood that goes way beyond ribbons and curls. You were made to bring God glory, and the purpose of your design is to point to Him.

    My Name is Erin: One Girl’s Journey to Discover Who She Is is one in a series of four books, which can be read in any order. The other titles are:

    My Name is Erin: One Girl’s Journey to Discover Truth

    My Name is Erin: One Girl’s Plan for Radical Faith

    My Name is Erin: One Girl’s Mission to Make a Difference

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMoody Publishers
    Release dateJul 24, 2013
    ISBN9780802486455
    My Name is Erin: One Girl's Journey to Discover Who She Is
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    Erin Davis

    Originally from Edmonton, ERIN DAVIS is a radio broadcaster and was the popular, long-time co-host of 98.1 CHFI’s morning show in Toronto. After Lauren’s death, Erin decided to return to her radio work, staying on for eighteen months. At that point, she chose to retire from daily radio and moved with her husband, Rob Whitehead, to Victoria, BC. Erin appears regularly as a freelance voice artist emcee and a keynote speaker for many organizations and events in Canada and the US.  

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      My Name is Erin - Erin Davis

      Acknowledgments

      My name is Erin. That’s me about the time my bangs hit their peak, circa seventh grade.

      I have a serious aversion to shopping malls, I’m not a huge fan of pink, and my hair has been in a messy ponytail for 364 of the last 365 days. (I just cannot get the hang of flat irons, curling irons, or hairspray!) I spend a lot more time being loud and rowdy than I do being gentle and quiet. My fingernails haven’t been painted since my wedding, more than a decade ago. Don’t get me wrong: I love being a girl. But if you’re searching for the poster child for girly girlness, I’m afraid you’ll need to keep looking.

      I suppose that makes me a strange choice to write a book on God’s Truth about being a girl. I mean, don’t the women in the Bible love to cook and clean and wear flowing skirts in fields of flowers? Not exactly. At least, not all of them. In fact, as we look to the Bible for answers about what it means to be a girl, we will find women who were feisty, strong, and brave, as well as some women who used their gentle femininity for God’s glory. From clever heroines to bold military leaders, these ladies can join me in the We’re Not Girly Girls Club. I’ll go ahead and sign you up for your free membership too, because whether you’re a mega tomboy, a pretty-pretty princess, or someone somewhere in between, God has a plan for your girlhood that goes way beyond ribbons and curls.

      Before we can get to the what of God’s plan for us as girls we need to answer why? Why does it matter that God created men and women? Why did God make guys and girls so different? Why does gender (that’s just a fancy word for the traits that make girls girls and boys boys) matter anyway?

      Yep, you’re a girl, but how does that fit into who you are as a daughter, sister, student, friend, athlete, dreamer, or future rock star? How does it impact how you live out your faith?

      Great questions! I’m glad you asked.

      I don’t have it all figured out and I can’t promise to answer every question about gender within the pages of this book, but I do know what it’s like to wonder, What kind of girl does God want me to be? That question sent me running to the Bible for answers. What I found made me so excited to be a girl.

      A New Pair of Glasses

      I’ve seen what can happen when we let the world tell us what gender means. It isn’t pretty! I’ve counseled many girls who feel like the rope in a tug of war because they’re torn between the messages of the culture and what they think a good, Christian girl should want to be like. I’ve been the girl who wondered if I could ever measure up to the women in the Bible without having a total personality transplant.

      If you read the first book in this series, My Name Is Erin: One Girl’s Journey to Discover Truth, you know that I’ve learned God’s Word is like a pair of glasses that can change how we see the world. His Truth has certainly changed how I see gender. But it’s not my mission to tell you how you should think about what it means to be a girl. Instead, I want to show you how to discover God’s Truth for yourself.

      My name is Erin, and this is my story.

      A World without Pink and Blue

      Here are a few of the ways gender has made headlines recently.

      A Toronto couple made international news by refusing to announce the gender of their baby even to his/her own grandparents. Baby Storm’s family decided to allow their child to define his/her own gender and vowed never to share what was under his/her diaper even with close family members.¹

      For the first time ever, the United States Navy decided to allow two women to share the traditional homecoming kiss upon the return of a Navy vessel.²

      Several preschools made the news by banning all mentions of gender among even the youngest of students. Such schools have banned words like him, her, he, and she, and have

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