It’s a busy world, it’s a chaotic world, it’s a desperate world, sometimes it’s a scary world.
It was a Sunday morning like most and while eating breakfast my husband and I were listening to a sermon on television. I can’t now even remember what the person said, but I began to think of how I pray. And I realized, almost despondently, that I’d been missing something important.
I have a routine, a method, a recipe for most of my prayers. Like many of us, I hit my knees (mentally or figuratively) when I need something. Facing a crisis. Having a bad day. In trouble and want to get out of it. Someone I love is sick or hurting. I go through my prayers sometimes like I’m placing an order at the drive-through. And I’m honest with those needs. They are real. They are devastating. They are ripping me apart inside.
But even after prayer, the anxiety is still there.
The problem doesn’t go away.
The mountain still needs to be climbed.
What is it I’m missing?
I realized I was missing HOPE.
Join me as I write out my fears, my anxieties, my despair, and my intentions, laying them at the altar of the one who called us His own. Together we’ll bind out prayers together with the red rope of hope.
This journal includes inspirational bible quotes of hope, restoration, and faith along with pages for writing our own prayers and intentions.
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When Olivia Hardin began having strange movie-like dreams in her teens, she had no choice but to begin putting them to paper. Before long the writing bug had her and she knew she wanted to be a published author. Several rejections plus a little bit of life later, and she was temporarily “cured” of the urge to write. That is until she met a group of talented and fabulous writers who gave her the direction and encouragement she needed to get lost in the words again.
Olivia’s attended three different universities over the years and toyed with majors in Computer Technology, English, History and Geology. Then one day she heard the term road scholar and she knew that was what she wanted to be. Now she “studies” anything and everything just for the joy of learning. She's also an insatiable crafter who only completes about 1 out of 5 projects, a jogger who hates to run, and she’s sometimes accused of being artistic.
A native Texas girl, Olivia lives in the beautiful Lone Star state with her husband, Danny and their puppy, Bonnie.
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