Jackie Hill Perry has a way with words that is warm, touching, and quite eloquent. From the very start of her memoir of how God pursued and drew to himself a gay girl, the words and the phrases and the paragraphs flow effortlessly in a way that draws the reader in and keeps them interested. Here is a good example as she contemplates how God is working in her life before she comes to faith:

"'Is God trying to get my attention by making my life harder or something?' I said. Blowing out smoke between questions said out loud, but mainly meant for God to hear and relent. "I mean, does God want me that much?" As grace would have it, he did."

She has a way with words, no doubt due to her talent as a poet, like this riff on temptation:

"Temptation was slapping me around like a weightless doll in the hands of an imaginative child."

I mean, that's just brilliant imagery if you ask me. She follows this up with a description of the struggle she had with homosexuality. She writes:

"The struggle with homosexuality was a battle of faith. To give in to temptation was to give in to unbelief, to decide that the body mattered more than God, or that the pleasure of sin would sustain all that I am better than He."

In this passage she uses the groom at a wedding ceremony as a metaphor for fear. "The date of our wedding was approaching, and fear was insisting on walking me down the aisle. I couldn't let fear hold my hand, even though it was a familiar palm."

Here is another passage in which she brilliantly describes what it meant to her to leave her sin and come to faith in Jesus:

"One thing is for sure, if ever I am asked how I am able to see now after being blind for so long, I will simply say, 'I was blind, but then a good God came, and now, I see.'"

This is a very, very good book and the best, most honest handling of the topic of homosexuality and the Christian faith that I've read.