"The Woman Who Picked Up Sticks" challenges each of us to take a closer look at our personal lives and causes us to examine our relationship with Christ. It not only challenges us but it reveals to us the hope that we have in Him. Each of the women that we read about in this book find hope, as they struggle and search for answers. "The Woman Who Picked Up Sticks" is a book that reflects both the desires and the struggles of the author's own life as he attempted to draw closer to the Lord and serve Him. There was a time when he felt that all hope was gone for him. Then, like the woman who picked up sticks, he found that the jar of oil will never run dry when we turn to the Lord.