Serials and Scenarios ~ Giveaway....

Life Ready Woman

Shaunti Feldhahn MomLife Today is thrilled to announce that Shaunti Feldhahn will be joining their team as a regular contributor to the MomLife Today website and blog! MomLife Today is also helping to promote Shaunti's latest book, Life Ready Woman, by giving away 2 Weekend To Remember Gift Packs and much more! Weekend To Remember Get-Aways offer marriage-changing principles that you can take home and apply to your daily lives to strengthen your marriage. Whether you are newly engaged or have been married for 50 years, you will find value in the tools provided at the getaway. Don't miss this opportunity to receive a conference registration for you and your spouse ... and more! MomLife Today will be randomly selecting NINE lucky recipients to receive one of these great gifts: 2 Weekend To Remember Get Away conference registrations for two. $259 value each pair (Two couples will receive this.) 2 Life Ready Woman DVD packs. $149 value each (Two different people will receive this gift.) 5 The Life Ready Woman books. (Book will go to 5 people.) To enter click one of the icons below then tell your friends. Winner will be announced on March 2nd on the MomLife Today website. MomLife Today provides encouragement, advice and resources to help YOU with your daily Momlife! Because...every MOMent counts! Want to help Spread the Word and enter to win a $30 gift certificate to Amazon.com - blog about the contest, add the blog button to your blog sidebar or share it on Facebook or twitter. Email amy@litfusegroup.com for the html codes. Sample Facebook post: Shaunti Feldhahn is joining MomLife Today! Find out more and enter to receive Weekend To Remember Gift Packs! http://www.momlifetoday.com/2011/02/shaunti-feldhahn%E2%80%99s-life-ready-woman-and-a-giveaway/ Sample Tweet: @shauntifeldhahn is joining @MomLifeToday - find out more and enter to win Weekend to Remember gift packs! http://ow.ly/3ZJ5m Find out more about Shaunti and her book below.

About Life Ready Woman

Thriving in a Do It All World Are you a 'Doing it all' or 'Do what matters' woman? Whether a stay at home or working mom, an airplane-hopping executive, an empty-nester caring for multiple generations or a single juggling high demands of career and personal life, today's fast-paced modern world leaves women gasping for balance. We as modern Christian women want to look to the Bible for guidance on how to manage our lives -- but because the world of women looks so different today than it did when the Bible was written, it is hard to find chapter and verse that seems to apply to our situation today. Thankfully, God has given us exactly that timeless, unchanging guidance for how to find peace, clarity, and God's best for our lives once we know where to look! The Life Ready Woman: Thriving in a Do-It-All World, reveals a profound biblical roadmap for how each of us can find the abundant life we are longing for, rather than the stressful, torn, how-do-I-balance-it-all life we often feel like we are trying to keep up with today. Actually being a LifeReady Woman means that you are clear about your life, bold in your faith, and able to find God's best for you, and the end result will be that you not only survive but thrive in our do-it-all world. God has given every wonderfully unique woman different skills and abilities, different desires, and different temperaments -- and every woman around the planet and through the ages is certainly living in different circumstances. But no matter what a woman's life looks like, the Bible says that God has an individual mission and plan that He's carefully designed for each of us. And He wants us to find it. Starting January 2011, The Life Ready Woman and the Life Ready Woman Video Series will help every wonderfully unique woman to thrive as she identifies and courageously pursues God's unique design and callings for her. LifeReady Woman puts you on a roadmap to make decisions that will lead to relief, delight, and fulfillment instead of regret. Find out more about the LifeReady Woman book and study

About the Author

Shaunti Feldhahn is a former Wall Street analyst and the best-selling author of For Women Only and now The Life Ready Woman with Robert Lewis. These resources investigate and illuminate those easy-to-miss truths that have the greatest power to transform lives. Shaunti is also the mom of two active young kids, and wife to attorney and entrepreneur Jeff. In the middle of juggling work deadlines, soccer runs, church activities, business opportunities, field trips, and time with her husband, she has seen personally how vital it is to have a biblical blueprint for life balance. For more information about Shaunti, please visit her website at www.shauntifeldhahn.com.

Scribbles and Scrambles ~ tiny but in the hands of the Almighty

Storms have a way of teaching what nothing else can.

Scribbles and Scrambles ~ Wacky Wednesday Video

My days often consist of tight or cramped things. Too close to payday, too "bonded" with folks who are a bit of a pinch. Schedules too tight.... well, you get it. But none of what I experience comes anywhere close to this crazy pinch!

Serials and Scenarios ~ Steve Schaefer's Living in the Overlap

Living in the Overlap by Steve Schaefer Did Jesus already establish His kingdom on earth? " Living in the Overlap explores the challenges and benefits of living in a kingdom that is both "already" and "not yet." If you want a deeper understanding of Jesus' kingdom message, and if you want to explore the kingdom's implications for your life today, let this provocative and enlightening book be your guide. The kingdom of God was the central message of Jesus, yet so few Christians understand what it means to live in that kingdom. Many of us think of the kingdom of God arriving with the second coming, but Steve Shaefer asserts that Jesus already established His kingdom on earth. Some of the blessings from the coming kingdom are available to us now, while we live in the overlap between the establishment of the kingdom and when it comes to its fullness. Those blessings can help us walk by faith, deal with temptation, and love others.

About Steve Schaefer Because of his fascination with Scripture and its message, Steve Schaefer has repeatedly explored the land of the Bible. His experiences include hot-air ballooning over eerie Cappadocian rock formations in Turkey, trekking through the ancient "rose red" city of Petra in Jordan, sloshing through Hezekiah's serpentine aqueduct in Israel, and scaling Jebel Musa (traditionally identified as Mount Sinai) in Egypt. But he now invites readers to embark on a different kind of biblical adventure in his new book, Living in the Overlap: How Jesus' Kingdom Proclamation Can Transform Your World. Steve holds a Master of Arts degree in Biblical Studies from Regent University's School of Divinity. He has traveled the globe as a Managing Producer in the International Programming Department of CBN WorldReach, and is a popular speaker and teacher. Reviews If you have ever prayed, "Thy Kingdom come,..." then Living in the Overlap is must reading for you. Terry Meeuwsen Co-host, The 700 Club Ample Scripture, careful explanations and helpful illustrations make this book painfully convicting, yet delightful to read. Pastors and disciples will welcome this book. David Mundt CBA Retailers + Resources magazine My Review is not ready yet. But it's on my pile and caught my interest.

Scribbles and Scrambles ~ Valentine Greetings

Great attitudinal gift idea for your Valentine. : )

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

William Arthur Ward

Scribbles and Scrambles ~ God Sighting

I experienced a sweet and weird God moment yesterday. A woman, whom I've not had a comfortable relationship with, and I got together for lunch. This happened because I felt like I needed to thank her for being a blessing to my family. She is one of those very spiritual women who sometimes do the uncomfortably odd things like approach someone and tell them that she feels called to pray for them. She has been one who I have felt intimidated by, for that reason, and other reasons like my own failures and the timidity that I struggle with at times.

I, because I was supposed to tell her I was grateful for her obedience, sent her a thank you note.

A couple of weeks later she told me it had caused her to experience an interesting God encounter. And if I wanted to hear about it I should let her know. So I suggested lunch.

Turns out that when she received the thank you note, she couldn't understand it. It unsettled her. And she had to spend time in prayer over that unsettledness. And when she worked through the feelings she said she felt a physical reaction and finally, a peace. But the night before we met she couldn't sleep, and she felt queasy in the morning. I, on the other hand, felt anticipation, which is weird because, like I said, our relationship is awkward at best.

As we discussed this I remembered that this note came out of a time where I was burdened to write out notes to my near dear ones. Notes telling them that I loved them and appreciated them, etc. And she came to mind as someone I owed gratitude to. While I was writing the first notes I sobbed my way through them which was weird because I didn't think I had anything to really sob about. I was dry and at peace when I got to hers. And then I didn't see her for a few weeks and so I finally put it in the mail.

Our conversation was rich and comfortable yesterday.

We crossed a barrier of miscommunication or awkward communication that we hadn't been able to cross before. After an hour of talking, my bladder started screaming at me so I asked her to excuse me. She said she could go so I could get on with my day. I asked her to wait, told her I'd like to pray with her.

When I returned we got right to it and prayed for our families, thanked God for whatever reason He was crossing our paths, and prayed for the body of Christ. I went first and she finished. Then she said that she had gotten confirmation that this was something that God was doing, and it might be something big because her lack of sleep, her unease and her nausea told her that Satan didn't want us to work through our differences. And she had known that if she prayed with me, she'd know both where I stood, and whether or not we were going to be able to walk this new path together. That I had told her I wanted to pray completely pulled all of it together for her.

And now. I'm staring out the window at melting icicles and pondering how such a massive God Who can keep planets spinning and oceans roiling, would care so much about me, and my friend's lives and our concerns. And I don't even have a clue what He's doing. What is He going to heal, restore, fix or rework? Wow. Is He Awesome or what?

Scribbles and Scrambles ~ Lesson 5

5) Asking God to reveal things that don't please Him, weaknesses I'm unaware of, deceptions I live as truth....WHAM...those requests have painful consequences...at first. But the truth does set free and the truth is bedrock.

I would rather have the ugly truth than a sanitized, be-ribboned lie. And the ugly truth turns beautiful in the hands of the God of grace and mercy. His truth is worth seeking.