The Baby Book is a Month Old

It has been a celebratory kind of week, hasn't it? Monthiversaries, engagementversaries, Bicentennial torch relays {more on that another day}, and now, one more! In all of the versaries, my little Be Still book turned a month old!

He's still just an infant out there in the great, wide world, but he's already started to make an impact. And that makes this Book Mama's heart very happy.

Some of you may have missed his book-birth last month, so if that's the case, let me catch you up! This is my second book, and I released it this fall to coincide with some retreats I'm speaking at, which happen to have this same theme.

But the book doesn't have to coincide with the retreat. It stands on its own and it's coming to mean different things to different people. The journey of the book centers around my single days a decade ago, when I wrestled and longed and prayed and wondered just what God was doing. So if you're single, you'll probably find some of your own feelings spelled out on a page.

It's not just for single people, though. Every single one of us wrestles with something (perhaps more than one thing that keeps our hearts from being still. We flail in our souls and try to help God run the world (at least our corner of it) and have some generally miserable days because we won't just sit still before Him.

Ten years ago, God and I took a journey together, and in that time, He taught me many little lessons that have stuck with me and continue to speak to me when I start to get stirred up in spirit today. I wanted to share them with you, and that's how this book was born.

The chapters are very short, so you can use it as a daily devotional if you want to. There are even Scripture passages and journaling lines at the end of every chapter if you want to make notes. But if you just want to read the whole thing through as a story, you can do that, too. It's up to you.

I'd love for you to check it out if you're looking for some fall reading or Christmas gifts or small group study ideas.

But in my happy-book-Mama state, I'd also love to share with you some of what I've heard from those who have read these pages and found something unique inside just for them:



* Got your book yesterday and read it straight through! I wanted to fill in the lines, but I wanted to get to the end. I got to the end, and now and I can go back and fill in the lines!

* I actually had to stop myself a few times from reading too quickly. I loved it so much that I just wanted to keep going with the story, yet it seemed oddly inappropriate to rush through a book on stillness. A compelling story, told with your usual "voice" that I love to read, chock full of wisdom and insight at every turn. I found myself in tears more than once, and I've been trying to apply the lessons learned to my own life. Thank you for being obedient to write the book so many years ago, and to breathe new life into it in this season.

* I started it Friday night, finally closed it around 2:30 in the morning, and finished it on Saturday! Very well written and great for a group Bible study!

* Thank you for sharing your story, which also tells HIS story of how much He loves us! Your book from beginning to end did not in any way disappoint.

* Definitely a must-read for my daughter someday. Of course your approach already has and could apply to any aspect of life, not just love. I am so thankful you listened to Him and wrote this down.



Happy one-month, little book! Continue to carry the message. You are a delight to my year.