Description
My Seventh Monsoon is the first in Naomi Reed’s award-winning trilogy. It was written in Nepal during the monsoon of 2005, while Naomi was struggling with home-school, civil war and 120 days of rain. As she stared outside at the rain, she began to type and consider the way that God works his purposes in our lives through seasons. The book reads like ‘a very long cup of tea’ and was awarded second place in the Australian Christian Book of the Year Award, 2008.
Reader –
“I’ve been unwell for many months now. A season of darkness. Today I was admitted to hospital and yesterday a friend gave me a copy of My Seventh Monsoon. I have just finished and I wanted to thank you for showing me that this season will pass and God has put me in it for a reason. So many great verses so many great stories of Gods faithfulness. So encouraging and humbling. Thanks.”
Reader –
“I have just finished My Seventh Monsoon. Thanks for allowing me into your life…so personally. I felt like you were speaking to me….just me. And I guess that’s part of why I have cried so many tears over the pages of your book and heart! Thanks Naomi for allowing God to speak thru you and being faithful to His call on your life….here in Australia and far away in Nepal.”
Reader –
“An Aussie friend introduced me to your books and I am now almost finished reading My Seventh Monsoon. God is powerfully using your writing and experiences to counsel me through many aspects of my life right now. I cannot wait to read all of your books!”
Reader –
“I read most of your book on the flight back and love it! I could vividly imagine things, and enjoyed the spiritual wisdom woven into the daily, joyful, painful, and ugly. It’s about incarnation after all…”
Reader –
“Last year a friend passed on ‘My Seventh Monsoon’ for me to read. It was such a great read! Thank you for sharing stories from your life and how God is at work through all seasons. There are some real gems of wisdom in there! Your reflections in the book were not only helpful at shaping my perspective about what God may be doing through our trials in life but also was part of sparking a desire to use my physiotherapy skills to serve God in developing nations.”
Reader –
“I can’t keep My Seventh Monsoon in my bookcase! RIGHT NOW my latest copy is on its way to New Orleans with a group of students from Massachusetts USA on an InterVarsity Christian Fellowship post-Katrina outreach trip. I had loaned it a few weeks ago to a young staff worker at a nearby college and she just wrote me that a Muslim student asked to borrow a book, chose My Seventh Monsoon and is LOVING it!!”
Reader –
“I have been reading ‘My Seventh Monsoon’ and can’t imagine a better book for me right now. I have blubbed my way through parts and cherished the choice of verses. There is so much power in spiritual honesty. I have been greatly encouraged by the articulation of things that are so often unsaid. The book has also helped me hand over the guilt I have felt about not being able to do much during this year. Thank you for the wonderful gift right now to remember the peace I feel with Christ and that he is with me through all the seasons.”
Reader –
“I found your book ‘My Seventh Monsoon’ in a garage sale one day in high school and it totally changed my life’s trajectory. I really appreciate what you shared in your story- so thank you!”
Reader –
“My name’s Anne and I’m 10 1/2 years old. I live in East Timor and I really relate to your feeling of being an alien! I just want to say I really love your books. They really make me think. Thanks for writing your books, you’re really talented!”
Reader –
“I ordered ‘My Seventh Monsoon’ after seeing a sentence quoted in a friend’s email. I took it on a trip and wept on the aeroplane. I am at a different age, in a different stage, and on a different continent, but have been wrestling with an involuntary season stage. Your words reminded me of God’s faithfulness in my own life and I was encouraged to cry out and trust.”
Alice –
I started reading the 7th monsoon and even before my flu is over, I had finished the book in two days. Naomi writes so beautifully and I like the way she expresses herself. It’s as if she’s talking to me; in a humble and persuasive way to help me understand that God works in different seasons in our lives. I’ll highly recommend it to my friends.
Naomi Reed –
Thanks Alice, lovely to hear from you! May the Lord bless you and use you and grow you in this season.