Are you an introvert or an extrovert? What do you do to unwind? What’s your favorite smell or sound?
These are just a few of the questions we were asked as we sat around the bistro table in Plant City, Florida at a Fresh Grounded Faith event.
Author and podcaster Annie F. Downs and singer-songwriter Laura Story were with me, and these women gave so much insight and inspiration when we spilled the beans.
GIVEAWAY ALERT: You can win the book Why Failure Is Never Final by this week’s podcast guest. Keep reading to find out how!
Most of us grow up thinking failure is bad. And, let’s face it, it never feels good! Failure—and all the bad feelings that go with it—are real, like unemployment, bankruptcy, and divorce, just to name a few.
Over time though, we might stop thinking we’ve failed at something and instead start believing we are failures.
But the truth is, if we’re willing to venture anything at all, we are going to fail. The question is, how will we view our failures―and what will we do with them?
GIVEAWAY ALERT: You can win the book When a Friendship Falls Apart by this week’s podcast guest. Keep reading to find out how!
We all long for “forever friends,” but what happens when forever ends?
Friends are the family we choose, and with that choice comes great joy, but also great risk… because sometimes those friendships fall apart.
So today, author Elizabeth Laing Thompson will give you practical tools for friendships that may be faltering, fractured, or on the verge of failure.
Dear Jennifer,
I am on the computer today just searching and reading, looking to find some words of encouragement. I desire so much to move beyond my all too frequent desire to give up on life. I am a wife and mother, and also a survivor of childhood abuse, date rape, and now I have added to my hurt a one-time adulterous act. I beat myself up, and Satan is all too glad to join in and clobber me over and over again.
