Overlooked
Finding Your Worth When You Feel All Alone
by Whitney Akin
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Pub Date Apr 11 2023 | Archive Date Sep 12 2023
Abilene Christian University Press & Leafwood Publishers | Leafwood Publishers
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Description
Maybe you didn’t read the word on the front cover. Maybe you felt it. You’re not alone. I feel it too.
While most of us don’t want to admit it, we crave attention. Our social media–obsessed society is proof that people everywhere want to be seen. But this self-promoting system leaves many women feeling overlooked. In Overlooked, Whitney Akin helps you discover how the human need for attention and approval is God’s intentional design and encourages you to live seen by the God who loves you.
Overlooked guides you into a deeper understanding of El Roi, the God Who Sees, through the stories of Hagar, Moses, Paul, and Jesus by uncovering the transformative power of living each day in the attention of a holy God. Overlooked offers practical ways to implement a lifestyle of living seen characterized by confidence, meekness, obedience, and a gospel perspective. You’ll learn how to use these characteristics to interact with humility and strength in the real, and digital, world around you.
When you feel forgotten and unseen, Overlooked will help you . . .
- Understand why you long to be seen.
- Get real about the ways social media is hard on your heart.
- Tap into the true source of the attention and approval you long for.
- Implement practical ways to trade feeling overlooked for a lifestyle of living seen.
You don’t have to live overlooked anymore.
Advance Praise
“Overlooked is for every woman who feels unseen and undervalued. With transparency, vulnerability and practical truths from God’s Word, Whitney offers help to process hurt in healthy ways, combat the lies of the enemy, and walk confidently in Christ. A must-read for anyone who longs to experience the joy of living chosen and cherished by the God who sees.”
—Ginger Hubbard, best-selling author of Don’t Make Me Count to Three and cohost of the Parenting with Ginger Hubbard podcast
“With transparency and transformative perspective, Overlooked encourages readers to lift their gaze from the mire of feeling unseen to meet the eyes of El Roi, the God who sees. Whitney’s intuitive, gospel-infused writing style will challenge and inspire you to walk in this truth: you are not overlooked.”
—Trudy Cathy White, Ambassador, Chick-fil-A, Inc.
“This read is biblical, honest, wise, memorable, and well worth savoring. Whitney brings insight to our deep longings exampled often in social media and beckons us to meekness, drawing especially on the lives of Moses, Hagar, Paul, and Jesus. She does it with a humility that is fitting to the theme of this excellent book, and I must say, it is evident in how she lives.”
—Rhys Stenner, Senior Pastor of New Hope Baptist Church, South Metro Atlanta, author of If in Doubt
“The longing to be seen simmers in every girl’s heart from an early age. ‘Watch me, Daddy,’ she calls as she twirls in her Sunday best. This longing only grows as we do. Whitney Akin captures the unspoken thoughts of so many women who seek what feels elusive and puts into words what I’ve struggled to speak aloud. Deftly weaving biblical truth, cultural observations, and her own story, Akin will meet you in your hiding place and invite you to live seen by the One who matters most.”
—Glynnis Whitwer, author, Executive Director of Communications, Proverbs 31 Ministries
“Are you struggling with feeling unseen? Whitney Akin knows your struggle because she’s lived it for years. In her wise, gentle voice, she will give you new insight into familiar scriptures to help you feel seen, loved, and affirmed by God. Her personal stories of overcoming her challenges in feeling unseen will inspire your confidence.”
—Sarah Geringer, writer, podcaster, creative coach, book launch manager, and author of Hidden Manna on a Country Road: Seeing God’s Daily Provision All around Us
“In Overlooked, Whitney invites us to thoughtfully consider the ways we are living distracted. She gently helps readers remember they are seen by God and calls us up to see others. This book artfully weaves together real-life experiences and biblical context.”
—Dorina Gilmore Young, author, speaker, podcaster
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781684261925 |
| PRICE | $16.99 (USD) |
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Geoff W, Educator
Overlooked.
I am loved by the God who sees. I have read Chapter 2 twice, and before my time expires in accessing it freely on NetGalley, I will need to read it again.
I am where I am, as I am, in the plan of God. I do not direct my own steps, any more than Adam and Eve directed their own way. They made foolish decisions; and as a consequence had to leave the garden paradise that was their home. Their relationship with God was radically altered. BUT….
The Lord God provided for them in their present need, clothing them in their nakedness, and promising them provision for their greater need in the future. Indeed, the defeat of the serpent was foretold in the earliest chapters of the historical record.
Please know I love You, Father. Please know I welcome Your seeing eye upon me all my days. I thank You for such grace and mercy, for You are good, and do good to all.
Another reflection:
Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
(Hebrews 4:14,16)
“We reconcile our need to be seen, and our fear of being seen, in Jesus.” (page 31 of Overlooked.)
Without the reality of the gospel of salvation, we will always be open to comparing ourselves with another- sometimes favourably, often unfavourably, depending on the wiring of our individual personalities. Sadly, it’s not only common in the world, but among God’s people, which prompts Paul to write to the Roman church, “not to think of himself (yourselves)more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.” (Romans 12:3)
Jesus Christ has opened up the way for us to God his Father, and taught His disciples the Lord’s prayer, and has taught us what it really means to love God with all our heart in the first sermon he ever preached.
The author to the Hebrews encourages his persecuted brethren to “remember Jesus” in their affliction. Remember what? For one thing, that He was approved by God, and that through resurrection and ascension He has been reunited to the Father, there to be our faithful High Priest.
His intimate knowledge of each one of his children ensures that His prayers are appropriate and practical, and the help that we need in our weakness will be given. We will not be overlooked! We cannot be overlooked!.
However, in those times I feel overwhelmed, confused, lonely and afflicted, and am stabbed with the loneliness of regret and shame, I can remember Jesus.
“What a friend we have in Jesus
All our sins and griefs to bear,
O what a privilege to carry,
Everything to God in prayer..”
I can recognize the times of temptation to worry and be downcast as moments of spiritual warfare. I can pray. I will pray. I determine to pray, and to stand firm in the faith, knowing that painful times will come, when my identity as Your child will be under attack. Mercy and grace is at my disposal from the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
I am a child of God, beloved by the Father, redeemed by the Son, being molded by the Holy Spirit. I am the object of my Father’s love that knows no limits. I will see myself “through Your eyes”, Heavenly Father. Blessed be Your Name.
( I have posted this as a review. If a book prompts a reader to reflect earnestly on his own life, and draws him to pray and to worship, it is surely a book to strongly recommend.)
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