Graced to Go: Step into the Bigger Bolder Life that Belongs to You by Victoria Osteen


In Graced to Go, Victoria Osteen explored how we can all step into our callings and to choose to not live in fear. A way we can do this is by understanding grace and choosing to go. She begins the book by sharing that people aren’t meant to be struck in life. She revealed that the key to being unstuck is living in grace. Grace is a touch of God’s incredible favor and blessing to accomplish things through His help. We can’t earn grace but we can choose to receive it as a free gift from Him. The word, “Grace” appears 146 times in scripture. She explained how God has tons of scriptures instructing people to get moving and to keep going forward. The very last command from Jesus was “therefore go” before he ascended back into Heaven.


One of my favorite stories, she stated was about how we may need to turn our telescope around. She heard this story about a little boy who was getting bullied. The boy felt threatened and hated to even leave his house. He would do his very best to go the long way around and not run into the bully. The boy struggled with being brave and standing up to the bully. One his birthday, his father gave him a telescope as a gift. One day his father noticed that his son was looking through the telescope the wrong way. He told his dad he was choosing to look through the lens from this angle where he could look at his bully. It may him appear smaller and he wouldn’t be afraid of him anymore. The lesson of this story is something we have to look at things differently and we must realize that we could be magnifying the wrong thing. We can actually shift and change our perspective. We can choose to find the good in all things if we just would look deeper and focus on the positive.


I would recommend this life changing book to anyone who is ready to move forward and to walk in grace daily. Victoria has written another incredible book covering grace and how important it is to live out our lives with as few as regrets as we can. I liked how she looked at many different Bible characters such as, Gideon, Joshua, Caleb, Abraham, Esther, Moses, to name a few and how they faced and dealt with their own circumstances. She encouraged readers to go and to live their lives to the fullest and to see the good and lean onto what God says about you. Each chapter ended with grace thoughts reminders and grace reflections with questions and room to write down your answers. This is a very powerful book that readers will need to learn and reread to get the content deep down into their spirits.