A story that women will relate to.  When God calls you have no choice but to answer and Connor caught that brilliantly.

The Shift 
By Maryanne Connor
***** 5 stars
Reviewed by Patti Boepple 

In this story Maryanne tells how she did what God ask of her and went to help others and leaving everything behind to do so. It was a bit like in Genesis 12 where God told Abraham to leave his homeland and all he knew behind and go into a land, God would show him.  Maryanne had her little faith, the size of a mustard seed; such as in Matthew 17 where Jesus says “if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, nothing will be impossible for you.” 
And she would need to remember what Jesus said in Matthew 17 because the enemy kept throwing obstacles in her path over and over and over again. She fully relies on God and never forgets to give Him the glory.
With her little fear and doubt, Maryanne persevered and helped to form NightShift Street Ministries in Surrey, British Columbia to help the poor, homeless, and the hungry. This is what Jesus was talking about in Luke 14 when He tells the story of how when you host a banquet to invite those who cannot pay you back and you will be blessed. 
We can all learn some valuable lessons by reading this book by Maryanne.
She does what, we are all supposed to do as Jesus said in Matthew 5, Maryanne lets her light shine!

Read this book to be encouraged to never give up! 
I believe that Maryanne embodies this quote by Theodore Roosevelt.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt 

I, was given this book, by Netgalley.com for review purposes.