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I had agreed to review both the new Follow Your Heart Backpack Bible and Brave Beauty devotional when I received an invitation to speak at an area MPact Girls Bloom Conference. I knew this was the perfect opportunity to bless two attendees with these new books. At the conference, I shared how to have a quiet time with Jesus. It was a joy to help these young girls understand the importance of praying, reading the Bible and meditating on God’s word. The two girls who received the books were thrilled. The Follow Your Heart Bible is well-made and quite cute. It has quality stitching onRead More →

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There’s not too much I love more than sitting around my kitchen table with my elderly friends and family listening to them recount “the glory days.” They swap story after story about events, places and people. Some sad. Some funny. I could listen to those stories over and over again (and I do) for hours. That’s fine with me. They are just as much a joy to hear the thirtieth time as they were the first. That good ol’ down-home feeling is what I experienced recently when I had the pleasure of reading Singing Ain’t Enough: The Inspiring Story of Maggie Ingram by Joy Harris.Read More →

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The winner of this new book by Kelly O’Dell Stanley is Libbie M.  Congratulations, Libbie. Please send me your address by filling out the Contact form located on this blog. Thanks for reading my reviews and connecting with me on my Facebook page, Created to Climb. Blessings!Read More →

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Written for the creative heart, Designed to Pray is an interactive, 8-week devotional on creative ways to engage with God. Kelly Stanley’s casual and fascinating style opens her reader’s eyes to new ways of connecting with God through prayer. This book would appeal to the right-brained, artsy reader, but would greatly benefit anyone desiring to pray more and pray more effectively. Each week offers a situation that may arise as we begin to pray, whether it’s fear, or a desire for increased faith, or how to intercede for others. Then, each day of that week Kelly shares ways to overcome or prevail in the situation.Read More →