Carved in Ebony: Lessons from the Black Women Who Shape Us Author Jolene Philo But what compelled him to

But what compelled him to live as one of us

we have the power to create a life-giving environment of freedom and joyful purpose around us

Her emancipating words on these pages offer the needed keys to all the good girls longing to take wing--and soar home to God's heart

We have too much of it

and emotional eating

Carved in Ebony: Lessons from the Black Women Who Shape Us Author Jolene Philo But what compelled him toElizabeth Freeman, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Maria Fearing, Charlotte Forten Grimk, Sarah Mapps Douglass, Sara Griffith Stanley, Amanda Berry Smith, Lucy Craft Laney, Maria Stewart, and Frances Ellen Watkins HarperThese names may not be familiar, but each one of these women was a shining beacon of devotion in a world that did not value their lives. They worked to change laws, built schools, spoke to thousands, shared the Gospel around the world. And