Look what I received this morning! It's a message from my book editor!
Happy Fall! I hope you are all enjoying the fall
weather, the changing leaves, and that the snow hasn't come for you yet.
Here is the latest issue of the Superior Book Promotions
Newsletter: http://www.superiorbookpromotions.com/newsletters/Newsletter38.html
My book is listed first!!!!!
The book that's been in my heart for 20 years has finally been written! It wasn't hard to write since it's been completed internally for years. It's done and at the printing company now and I will have copies of it mid April. The proceeds are for Moms Against Hunger and I trust it will be a encouragement to all who read it.
It's the adventures and dangers of my life while living in Africa and other places and how adversity can be leveraged into success in life, leadership, work and faith. Here is the cover..... and yes I am excited to show it to you!
There are 20 leadership principals in this book to help develop leadership within the reader. And it's filled with stories and experiences on every principal and growth pattern.
I am so thankful for Patrick Snow who has been my publishing coach. He is amazing!!! And Kevin Allen, the President of Nucerity wrote the Foreward, is a leader in every sense of the word and I'm grateful to him! Tyler and Fransesco and Shiloh who are all such creative people and their professionial expertise is so very appreciated!!! Thank you each one.... because you all helped, thousands of children will receive aid in the future.
What is the best book I have read this year? It was rich... rewarding... I learned a lot from the failures of people in it's pages...and found secrets to life hidden....they dawned on me slowly. It was riveting and a reminder of whats real and whats not in this world. I found passages within it's chapters that I kept rereading through the year. I have to tell you that it just seemed to resonate inside me.
What is it's name? Can you guess? It has 66 books and covers the beginning of time and the end of time.
It's the Bible.... read it this year... it does a body good!
During this summer I am reading a spiritual common sense book. I grow bored with books that say the same trite statements but really don't do much to stretch my mind. I have found one that really hits concepts of truth home. It's called 'God Never Blinks' by Regina Brett. Regina wrote this book when she turned 50....it's '50 lessons for life's little detours' that are gritty and plain but tell the truth aptly. These chapters are little essays that have been compiled from a newspaper column (she wrote) into a great book.
Pithy lessons like....
Lesson 13 - Don't compare your life to others, you have no idea what their journey is all about.
Lesson 17- You can get through anything life hands you if you stay put in the day you are in and don't jump ahead.
Lesson 29 - What other people think of you is none of your business.
She's a great author - get it .... read it... and change your mind about some basic beliefs that may have tangled your life travels.
It's worth reading.
Just finished reading a fascinating book about one of the Queen's of France - Marie Antoinette.
Many things about her life were a paradox. This particular picture was changed as she had her baby in that crib next to her during the process of the painting being done. After the death of the child - she had the baby painted out - it was just too painful to view day by day. She did have a heart.... and a love for her children.
She was misquoted as saying, 'let them eat cake' - this was simply not true. She never said it. Yet the lie remains. Those who she loved, loved her. She made unknown powerful enemies - that became her downfall due to her lack of understanding and temperance in all things.
What is to be learned from her life? Keep one's appetites simple, ones heart pure, and one's mind ever learning.
For the challenges of life depend upon three things.
1. Learning the human needs around us and responding with compassion and care.
2. The courage to live a life of character and morality no matter what others are doing.
3. The sensibility to discern that today's wishes received, may become tomorrow's chains.
She lived and died - the end of the long line of Kings and Queens... time was changing in the 1700's and alas she knew it not.
She is a powerful person every pastor's wife in leadership should study.
In my yearly personal inspection it's important to see what's been read and what area I should be studying next. A variety of books is interesting, educating and so good for mental training. I have 4 books going this summer..... and enjoy reading each of them.
Sharing books is one way to encourage reading in those around me. Pastor's wives often need the impute of other lives to strengthen or educate in important areas of which they are responsible for. Also I find that reading important works is the way to truly grow mentally. Wait, before I show you maybe I should tell you that I am married to one of God's Generals in this generation. Pastors everywhere recognize the extreme spiritual warfare that the church at large is involved in. The intense battles of financial burdens, complicated legal systems, social and political pressures of increasing city and township inspections, rulings and ever encroaching building codes and regulations weighs heavily on Ministers today. They face pressures unlike any other generation before has experienced in ministry. It's complicated, full of pitfalls with sensitive hurting people, and must provide for costly programs of provision in every church and ministry family.
Bishop Gregory L Holley and I stand together working in these minefields, daily carrying out spiritual warfare on behalf of the church both locally and nationally. I hear many conversations my husband has daily with ministers across America who all are under the gun battling for their churches.
We made a decision some years ago to raise up the next generation of Ministry here carefully and well equipped. My husband works hard to raise up and imprint, impress, educate, support and train well ahead of the curve of the full weight of ministry for the young Pastor here. We want his shoulders to be strong, and to see that he is well equipped for the challenges he will face in the coming years.
So how do I handle all of this as a wife? I read. And here is the current book I am studying personally that is fascinating. It's about another great 'war hero' in the earth. Sir Winston Churchill. His battles, pressures and the forces against him are all insights for me as my General also in in a war.....
Winston Churchill CEO - 25 lessons for bold business leaders. For every Bishop and Pastor who provide leadership for the lives of others, this book is a wonderful resource! And for Pastor's wives? Essential reading material!
This is my current study book.... it's a good thing.
