For Women Only Turns Twenty! My Thoughts — and Yours.

Generational impact

So now, twenty years later, For Women Only is reaching its second generation.

One woman I met at a women’s event in January is emblematic of this generational impact. Dr. Michelle Sims, an economics professor at Arizona Western College, approached me at the event intermission to tell me how For Women Only restored her marriage twenty years earlier. “The book held truths I needed to hear that my husband probably wasn’t comfortable saying,” she said.

We hugged … and cried. Later, she picked up my last three copies of For Women Only— one to replace her own loaned-out copy, and one for both of her daughters.

And the kicker? Dr. Sims almost didn’t attend that women’s event! Another college semester was upon her, she had much to do, and she had no idea who the speaker was. Until, she said, I walked onstage, carrying “her book” under my arm! Divine encounters like these, and stories of restored marriages, never get old.