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With amazing honesty and heart-touching vulnerability, Grammy award winner Sandi Patty shares a very personal look through the protective - and often destructive - layers that have affected her life. In Layers, she invites you to join her on an amazing journey of self-discovery, recognizing and peeling away the layers burdening your life.

Life's hurts can cause you to consciously pull an emotional and behavioural coverings to protect yourself from feeling that pain again. The hurt might be something small, like an obnoxious classmate during your school years making fun of your appearance, or something big, like abandonment or abuse.

Your layers may be visible, like layers of fat or fingernails bitten to the quick. Or they may be outward behaviours, like compulsiveness or unprovoked anger. They may exist in your innermost thoughts, condemning you as unfit, unworthy or unlovable.

Sandi Patty knows that story because she has lived it. And neither the success of selling millions of inspirational albums nor the blessing of growing up in a loving Christian home has spared her from life's harsh realities.

Now she's learning what always has been true for each of us: during all those years of layering to keep out the hurts - the years spent helmeted by stubbornness, padded by shame, armoured by failure and hardened by guilt - our heavenly Father has been waiting...longing to pull us into His loving embrace and tell us the sweetest wonders about ourselves.