Longing for Intimacy: Hope For Women Struggling with Same-Sex Attraction

by Amy Riordan

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Author: Amy Riordan

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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ISBN 10: 1984191934
ISBN 13: 978-1984191939

Longing for Intimacy is the journey of a woman wrestling with same-sex attraction and how she discovered intimacy with Jesus to satisfy the deep longings of her heart. As she surrendered her sexuality and heart to Jesus, Amy broke free from a pornography addiction, lust, and many layers of shame. In this book, Amy shares many of the challenges she has experienced, along with the freedom, intimacy with Jesus, and healing for her heart she has gained along the way. Incorporating excerpts from her journal and reflection questions for the reader, this book serves as a practical tool to encourage, challenge, and give hope to women who are wrestling with same-sex attraction and the challenges that can often go along with it. Amy’s candid writing is also a helpful resource for parents, mentors, loved ones, and churches seeking to walk alongside women wrestling with their sexuality in these ways.

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"For anyone who desires to grow into freedom, wholeness, and holiness, the journey must include facing life honestly. Amy uses her own journey of faith, repentance, healing, and struggle to show what it means to go face to face with suffering and sin while being focused on Christ. As she writes, when we seek Him and His kingdom first, bending the knee of our hearts in submission, He is the one who transforms us literally from the inside out. This is the hope and inheritance for His people. This isn't a formula, or list of steps, or a one-size fits all process, and Amy makes this beautifully clear by consistently pointing the reader towards her beautiful Savior, Jesus Christ.

I hope many women, and those who desire to faithfully companion them, will read this book and be encouraged and spurred on to run after Jesus, eyes fixed on Him. Holiness and wholeness are gifts God longs for His daughters to enjoy."

Ellen Mary Dykas Author/Editor, Sexual Sanity for Women: Healing from Sexual and Relational Brokenness

From the Author

I wrote "Longing for Intimacy" for two different reasons. First, I wanted to honor God and give Him all the glory for everything He has done in my life. He has healed my heart and set me free in so many ways. Second, I wanted to write this book to encourage and give hope to other women who struggle with unwanted same-sex attraction. Years back when I first started searching for resources to help me, I had trouble finding anything. I felt so isolated with a deep, unfulfilled longing in my soul, and I was convinced I must be the only Christian woman who was dealing with same-sex attraction and a hidden porn addiction as a result. In many ways, I feel like the Holy Spirit helped me to write the book I needed back then. If you are struggling with same-sex attraction, I pray this book is a tool that encourages you, challenges you, and gives you hope. Most importantly, I pray it leads you closer to Jesus, the only One who can satisfy your deepest needs for love and intimacy. - Amy Riordan

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