The Fenon Five: A New Direction

It's been a crazy past few days, which is the reason I haven't blogged much. I have to admit though, I didn't really wanna post over my "masterpiece" (I call it that not to brag but simply to point out how important it is to me.) I wanna be able to see it all the time as a reminder of how far I've come and how far I have yet to go. But hey, I guess that's what copy, paste, and Microsoft Word are for :)

Anyway, I think I want to take my blog in a new direction...at least for the next few weeks. Who knows, maybe permanently. We shall see. But I am going to start reading and re-reading three books by Leslie Vernick titled How to Find Selfless Joy in a Me First World, How to Act Right When Your Spouse Acts Wrong, and How to Live Right When Your Life Goes Wrong. She also has another book called Lord, I Just Want to be Happy that I intend on picking up sometime soon. If you haven't heard of Leslie Vernick I very much encourage you to pick up her books. Read along with me! She is a fabulous author and her books are so clear cut and not muddled down with a bunch of fluff. Extremely convicting too. There are a bunch of other books I'd like to read in the next few weeks that I am pretty excited about as well!

As for my new blog direction, I'd like to take each chapter and take the time to actually press it into my heart and make some real and solid changes in my life. So often I find that when I am reading Christian self-help books, I get boggled down with so many ideas and things I would like to change that I let my ideas slip away to make room for the new ones. So I intend on writing about the ideas and thoughts that I recieve in each chapter and hopefully it will serve as an encouragement to you as well as a reminder to me on what direction I would like to go in. I would also like to compare what I read about to my life a few years ago as well as my life today. How interesting that will be! I want to clearly highlight what I was struggling with as a teenager in a Biblical light and then see how it has affected me today. All that to say, this should be an interesting journey!

And that's not to say that I won't blog in between chapters about little things I have going on, but my main focus for the next few weeks will be what I am learning in those books. And who knows, maybe these posts will serve as the notes I will use to someday write my book :)

I hope you will stick with me and find encouragement in Leslie Vernick's books! I know I will!

Until next time....

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