03 September 2018

Relatable, Thought-Provoking & Genuine | The Struggle Is Real: Getting Better at Life, Stronger in Faith, and Free From the Stuff Keeping You Stuck by Nicole Unice

ABOUT THE BOOK

“It just shouldn’t be this hard!”

Raise your hand if you’ve ever had a day where everything that could go wrong does go wrong—you lock your keys in the car while it’s running, lose control with your kids, make a mistake at the office that results in hours more work. And just when you think not one more thing could possibly happen . . . well, fill in the blank.

The struggle is real, friends. It may not be major stuff. Lives are not on the line here. But it makes us feel awful . . . and then we feel guilty for stressing when other people have “real” problems that are so much more serious.

Yet the fact remains: We live in a world that often feels harder than we think it should be. And so it can be easy to believe the stories we tell ourselves—that we’re doing it wrong, that we’ll be stuck in this place forever, that God doesn’t love us. We struggle to practice gratitude, to make godly choices, and to live our daily lives with confidence and contentment. So what can we do?

Join popular Bible teacher and counselor Nicole Unice to discover why the struggle is real . . . and what to do about it. Nicole offers practical tools to help you navigate the daily ups and downs, and ways to rewrite your struggle into a new, God-centered life story. The Struggle Is Real is an invitation to take the hard, hurtful, and confusing moments and turn them into opportunities to grow in wisdom, strength, and joy.

Publisher: Tyndale Momentum
Release Date: August 21, 2018


It's Monday! What Are You Reading? #12

Hosted weekly by The Book Date.

Happy Monday!

And September, too! I can't believe fall is nearly upon us—I'm so ready.

Anyway, it's been a busy-fun week: I socialized more than normal, spent more time doing schoolwork than I prefer, and read less than I like. I still enjoyed it.

31 August 2018

The Friday 56 & First Line Friday | A Cowboy's Pride

The Friday 56 is hosted weekly by Freda's Voice.
First Line Friday is hosted weekly by Hoarding Books.

Happy Friday!

Up next on my TBR, this new book from Karen Rock is one way I'll be passing time over the weekend. Enjoy the peek!

29 August 2018

Waiting on Wednesday | Lady of a Thousand Treasures

Hosted weekly by Breaking the Spine 
to spotlight eagerly-anticipated upcoming releases.
(Similarly, Can't-Wait Wednesday is hosted by Wishful Endings.)

Happy Wednesday!

Everything I've read by Sandra Byrd has been wonderful. I'm expecting nothing less from her upcoming release.
 

28 August 2018

Top Ten Tuesday | Books & Schools

Hosted weekly by That Artsy Reader Girl.

Happy Tuesday!

It's that time of year, full of dread and excitement, again: Summer is ending, school is starting. Personally, I'd much rather read about school than actually go to school (alas, that can't be helped right now). With all their drama, school stories can be a lot of fun to read—especially when set outside the halls of a traditional school, as the following books are.