Adapting to Change: Devotional Thoughts from a Staunch Stick-in-the-Mud

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Adapting to Change: Devotional Thoughts from a Staunch Stick-in-the-Mud Everything changes. And I hate that.  It makes it so difficult to plan one’s life, doesn’t it? Hopes, dreams, schemes…might work for the present, but then an unexpected diagnosis or earth-shattering personal discovery throws it all away. And we change. And that’s really hard for this …

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Five Back Cover Mistakes I Made As a First Time Author and How To Fix Them

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I released my first book 5 years ago (2021) with blissful hope and big dreams. As a debut author, I quickly learned self-publishing might’ve been as ‘easy’ as loading my manuscript into Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (read: not easy at all; that alone was a learning curve), but actually selling books was another level of …

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Pouring From a Broken Cup – A Christian Devotional on 2 Corinthians 4:7 for Exhaustion and Depression

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“You can’t pour from an empty cup.” I’m sure we’ve all heard this adage. It’s a common phrase meant to remind us that we humans have limits, and that resting can be the most productive thing we can do. It’s practically a cliche, wielded by many self-help gurus to promote self-care, and I personally can’t …

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Find Great Book Recommendations WITHOUT Booktok or Bookstagram

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The year is 2020 (ugh, wow. Writing that gave all kinds of flashbacks. Just hang on; this gets better). I’ve just created my first ‘bookstagram’ account. With a few taps, I start following #bookstagram, and gorgeous flat-lay photos fill my feed. I tapped on a creator’s handle to skim the perfect little squares on their …

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