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Veronica E. Ame Hits it out of the Park with Her First Book, "The Woman Qualified for the King’s Business". Imagine you’re a woman and someone asks you: Are you qualified for the King’s business? You feel instantly lost. Your brow furrows with incomprehension in a gesture to get your questioner to explain what he just asked you. Your mind keeps wondering, nevertheless: what is the “King’s business”? And how, by the way, might I qualify to do it? But the term, depending on your background, should be self-explanatory. The King’s business is the work of God, toiling in His vineyard as conscientiously as any of His servants we have read about in the Bible, did thousands of years ago. If you are already having a faint notion of what God requires of you to be able to do His work as a woman, Veronica E. Ame is telling you to stop racking your brains any further. She has made the great effort to distil those qualities, and she has them ready-made for you. All that is required of you is to start adopting them, or perfecting them, if they have already been part of you. Vision. Wisdom. Prayer. Mission. Determined faith. Knowing your assignment. These are the qualities --- although not necessarily in that order. In her book, The Woman Qualified for the King’s Business, newly published by Christian Faith Publishing, Ame, nurse, preacher, mother, wife, writer, et cetera, et cetera, examines each of these virtues through influential women of the Bible you may have already heard about, even if cursorily. In other words, the qualities are not some abstract ideals the author expects women to aspire to. Sarah, she notes, embodies vision and strength. Her vision enabled the liberation of Abraham, her husband, and nudged him towards a more progressive and fulfilling life “To carry out the business of the King, you have to be a woman of vision and strength.” You think Solomon was the only person in the Bible reputed for his wisdom? Then meet Ruth the Moabite. Ame tells us she is the very personification of wisdom. Therefore, a woman who thinks and acts wisely like Ruth, is virtuous enough for the King’s business. The reader learns about other great women of the Bible, such as Hannah, Deborah, Esther, Mary, the mother of Jesus and many more women who possess the above qualities. Implicit in Ame’s work is the suggestion, and a very strong one, that being qualified for the King’s business automatically makes you both a virtuous wife and a dependable helpmate to your husband. With only six short chapters, Ame’s book is slim and powerful. The narrative drive is swift and propels you to its very end at a sitting. Reading it was a pleasurable and rewarding spiritual experience for me. I recommend the book strongly.