Anonymous: Jesus' Hidden Years ... and Yours

It felt like this book was written just for me. I am a newly licensed minister (22) and I have yet to take on a position that utilizes my strengths because I feel God telling me to wait. This book completely explains why this time in my life is necessary. Its encouraging but also cutting because it speaks of the immense importance of our hidden times. Every day is as important as the next even when no one is watching us closely. This book is written beautifully and concisely. You'll find yourself gliding through the chapters, but its really good stuff. You don't hear this message every day in fact I've NEVER heard this message preached before. I rarely highlight books, but this one is covered in yellow. This book should be way more popular than it is...kind of fitting since it is all about taking advantage of hiddenness. FIVE STARS.

We recently kicked off our Fall Bible study at church, using Alicia's series "Anonymous: Jesus' Hidden Years and Yours." Sixty women were left speechless, a feat by anyone's standards! Alicia can pack more depth and volume into one sentence then most of us can hope to write in three pages! The corresponding study guide adds tremendous depth and underscore to the teachings of "Anonymous", leading the reader into rich intimacy with God. This teaching, via this book, has been one of the most transformational teachings I've ever received from Scripture. Alicia's capacity for pondering God and the sacred walk of a Christian therein, leaves me hungering to be a better mother, a better writer, a better human being, and most importantly, a better seeker of God.

Alicia Chole's "Anonymous" is a must-read for anyone who feels they are in a hidden or anonymous season. Her reflective style offers hope and healing with biblical and practical examples. It's a timeless piece of art on paper. Jackie M. Johnson "Power Prayers for Women" Author POWER PRAYERS FOR WOMEN

This amazing book by Alicia Britt Chole is and will be one of the defining written works for my life. I feel as if this message were prepared personally for me by the Father and delivered in such a timely and gentle package that I cannot help but soak it all in. I know that the footprint left behind by anonymous on my heart will be a permanent one....one that will literally and practically change my relationship with God and my own expectation of what it means to be a "successful" child of God. This is a message that my generation is dying for. Thank you, Alicia, for delivering it.

We live in a crazy world where daily we read in the headlines the sad stories of the righteous that have fallen. What is it that gives some the strength to keep their integrity through fame and failure, while others falter at the slightest provocation? Perhaps it's because most of us haven't fully embraced the iceberg principal that Alicia so vividly portrays for us in her newest book: 10% visible + 90% unseen = an indestructible life. It was the principal that Jesus lived by. And who among us will ever face the amount of fame, testing and trials that He did? Alicia's book came to me at a most opportune time. It impressed upon me the sacredness of my own hidden years. To think that the seemingly endless years of my life spent diapering and rocking were orchestrated by my Father to teach me to draw strength from Him, and to develop character within me to sustain me through the days to come. As I shared with Alicia this week, God is writing a new chapter in my life. I have titled it "Spring". I feel that Alicia has given me a rare gift in anonymous. She has given me the knowledge of what I need when I immerge from my "hidden years"- a commitment to keep the sacred, quite, intimate place I share only with Father God intact. A commitment to strive to be like Jesus, 10% visible - 90% unseen. If I could only read one book this decade, and force everyone I know to read it as well, it would be anonymous. It is a message the church needs not only to hear, but to embrace!