Well it has been a minute, actually over nine months, since I last took some time to write a blog post. There really is SO much I need to catch you up on. My life has been a bit of whirlwind if I’m being honest with you. The last two blog posts here on Country Wife Chronicles were catching you up on my current state of affairs–after a long battle with endometriosis-induced infertility.
This blog post has been a long time coming. I’ve been bouncing the words around in my head for several weeks now, grappling with how to get my thoughts into readable form.
You may have noticed that I haven’t been around the blog for a while. In fact, I’ve been absent from Country Wife Chronicles for almost a month now.
And while I’ll spare you all the details of exactly how I got here, I will share with you that this was not my original intention for September’s blog posts on CWC. Let me give you a glimpse into my life lately…
I just want to start this beautiful Monday by saying, “Thank you for being here!”
I know that this Streams in the Wasteland talk has been going on and on it seems, and it has kinda taken forever to get here. But we’ve made it, Streams in the Wasteland: 31 Days of Devotions for Finding Hope in Hardship is finally available for downloading!
You’ve been so patient in your waiting that I wanted to take just one more moment here on CWC to give you the full deets on all things Streams in the Wasteland before things get back to normal around here.
Well, I feel like the book launch is officially underway…because Streams in the Wasteland will be available for downloading later this week!
This whole idea of me writing an eBook is still a bit crazy to me…I mean, I wrote a devotional, y’all.
As I was working through Streams in the Wasteland, I realized that some companion resources could be really helpful for your devotional time. So that is what we are going to take a quick look at today.
We’ve talked here on CWC about the importance of finding time in your life to just be still. As I’ve been so diligently sharing my first-ever devotional eBook release in Streams in the Wasteland, I thought it might make sense to talk obstacles to devotion time today.
Because life can get hectic. And we all know that spending time with the Lord requires some intentional structuring of your daily life.
All right, y’all…how many of you plan to download and read Streams in the Wasteland?
I hope to get Steams in the Wasteland in all your hands very soon and I just wanted to take a moment to remind you that this little devotional eBook will be FREE for the taking! All you need to do is sign up at the end of this blog post and I’ll be sending Streams in the Wasteland straight to your email inbox once it is ripe for the picking!
Streams in the Wasteland is comprised of two stories…two very different stories.
There’s Graci’s story: a battle with ovarian cancer.
And then there’s mine: a valley of infertility.
The common ground we share in our two stories is our faith, our hope in the hardship.
I wrote Streams in the Wasteland to honor Graci’s life and share her story with more women around the world. But I also wrote this devotional to help you find hope in the hardships that life is bringing you.
Last week I shared with you the exciting news that is my latest creation, Streams in the Wasteland—my first “official” devotional eBook!
Streams in the Wasteland is a 31-day devotional aimed at finding hope in the hardships of life. With the intertwining of two deeply personal stories of hardship and heartache, one of a battle with ovarian cancer, another with infertility; this devotion explores searching for hope on the dark days.
Whew, these past few weeks here on Country Wife Chronicles have been a bit heavy, haven’t they?
First, there was grappling with my recent endometriosis diagnosis. Then, last week was Infertility Awareness Week, so I decided to put my brave face on and open up about Wildland Man and I’s struggle to have a baby.
This week, it is time for a change of pace.
Well, we’ve finally come to the conclusion of our first blogiversary series here on CWC. We’ve really done a lot of unpacking over the last few weeks, haven’t we?
We dug deeper into the inspiration behind CWC to find a whole lot of casseroles. Yeah, you’ll have to go back to Part 1 to see for yourself.
We detailed the not-so-scripted launch of this country blog into the world in Part 2.
We explored other bloggers that influenced CWC and lessons learned over the past year in Part 3.
And we recapped favorite posts from year one here on Country Wife Chronicles in Part 4.