Happy Tuesday, My Lovelies! What's going on in your neighborhood? It's a beautiful sunny day here in Central Alabama, but it's a bit chilly. What are you currently reading, watching, streaming, or listening to this week? I started Uncomplicate It: Permission to Enjoy God in Your Unique Way by Hosanna Wong last week, and I can hardly put it down. Plus I'm finding myself going back and re-reading certain parts of the book.
About Uncomplicate It: Permission to Enjoy God in Your Unique Way
Publisher: Thomas Nelson (February 3, 2026) Happy Pub Day!
• Paperback: 224 pages
What if enjoying life with God is simpler than you’ve heard? What if your personality, the way you learn, the things you enjoy, your season of life, and your many roles aren’t roadblocks to overcome but instead shortcuts to real connection with your Creator? International speaker Hosanna Wong offers you a permission slip to uncomplicate your relationship with God and enjoy Him in your own unique way.
She will help you:
- break free from unrealistic expectations that do not come from God;
- overcome 6 roadblocks that keep you from enjoying your life and relationship with God;
- unlock 6 shortcuts to enjoying God in your current season;
- learn from interviews with over one thousand believers about their unique ways of encountering God; and
- drop the guilt, shame, and comparison that comes from the lie that your relationship with Jesus must look one certain way, or else.
A real relationship with God is not one-size-fits all. Your relationship with God does not have to look like anyone else’s. And it doesn’t have to look the same way it did years ago. You can uncomplicate it. This is your permission slip to embrace the unique way God has made you, in this specific stage of life you’re in, so that you can fully receive all the good that God has for you right now.
My Thoughts So Far
As y'all know, we recently converted our classroom upstairs into a library. Not only did it afford me the opportunity to make better use of a pretty much unused room, but it also gave me the opportunity to curate my many books and make donations to our local library and a couple of other charities and Christian ministries. I donated several Christian nonfiction books that I kept for years that I know I will never read again. They deserve to be shared with others. Uncomplicate It is definitely a keeper. Yes, I will loan it out to friends, but I think it deserves a spot on my Christian Nonfiction keeper shelf. Here's why....
Hosanna Wong interviewed over 1,000 people asking them about their faith and specifically on "how they enjoy God." She truly put in the work, research, and organization into this book! The first two parts of the book are fairly standard because we see it all the time (especially while scrolling Instagram). Part 1 is entitled "Your Permission Slip," and it encompasses all the lies the enemy uses to discourage us in our walk with God and how Christians should stop with all the comparisons. Part 2 is entitled "Roadblocks." I see these excuses constantly on my Instagram feed, particularly "Busyness," "Distractions," "Shame," and "Expectations" (these happen to be four of the six subheadings in this chapter). So you might be asking: What makes this book unique? As I said at the beginning of this paragraph, it's the fact that she talked to so many people about not only their walk with God, but what they enjoy most about it.
Part 3 is entitled "Shortcuts." This is where her research really shines and highlights ways to enjoy God based on your likes and personality. This is the brilliant part because we shouldn't be expected to enjoy God in ways that conflict with how God created us. Hosanna coined the phrase "Praise-o-nality" to express how we feel close to God based on temperament. So far, this has been the best and most instructive chapter in the book. My favorite archetype (or temperament) is "The Artist of People." This is the person who connects best with God through other people via their conversations and relationships with them. "[ Although] we are all created for community, some of us have a natural bent toward it (page 151)." This has made me realize why I get so much out of our small group Bible studies and book clubs at church, and why the COVID madness was particularly difficult for me. I also am learning a lot about how to get in a rhythm of closeness to God in practical ways, and how to not only refresh my faith, but to flourish.
I think this lovely book can shed some light on how you can better enjoy God through practical applications and self-reflection. But the stories in it about others truly make this book stand out. I'm enjoying it so much, and I will definitely suggest it for our book club at church.
Have you read any wonderfully inspiring Christian nonfiction lately? Please share in the comments if you have!
Disclosure: I'd like to thank TLC Book Tours for asking me to be a part of this blog and Instagram tour for Uncomplicate it: Permission to Enjoy God In Your Unique Way. I received a book from the publisher via TLC Book Tours in exchange for a fair and honest review.
TLC Review Tour Schedule:
Tuesday, February 3rd: The Bookish Dilettante
Friday, February 6th: @bookloveramanda
Tuesday, February 10th: @gigithebibliophile
Wednesday, February 11th: @dana.loves.books
Friday, February 13th: @readingpastdark.marcia
Monday, February 16th: @teaandbookstoo and Read
Wednesday, February 18th: @lovemybooks2020
Friday, February 20th: @danamarielovestoread
Friday, February 20th: View from the Birdhouse
Friday, February 27th: @deannaturnsthepage
Monday, March 2nd: @beautyinthebinding
Wednesday, March 4th: @oilycaffeinatedmama
Until next time...
Happy reading!
Ricki Jill
