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Transform your life when you discover the key to true and lasting happiness…embracing a life a gratitude.Growing Grateful helps you grab hold of a happy and peaceful life with 101 devotional meditations on the joy of being grateful even in the hardest times.Life does not always go how we dreamed it would. People disappoint us or betray us, jobs that we counted on disappear, financial troubles happen, health issues blindside us. It is so easy to fixate on what we don't have, what went wrong, and how life is unfair. We begin to let anger, bitterness, regret, or frustration rule our lives. But there is another way to live that frees us to embrace the blessings in our lives and find true and lasting joy—gratitude.In Growing Grateful, author Mary A. Kassian guides you through 101 daily devotions on how the habit of gratitude will foster happiness in your life no matter what the day holds—the kind of happy that blooms in every season along the pathway of life’s ups and downs. Each daily entry in this beautiful and inspiring book gives you a meaningful Bible verse, a short entry that helps you reflect on your own attitude of gratitude, and a meditation with reflection questions to consider or to write about in your journal. In Growing Grateful you will learn how to:Get back to the basics of gratitudeBe grateful for God's friendshipCultivate a closer relationship with GodBe thankful despite your circumstancesBe grateful that God delights in youPursue a joyful life This devotional makes a lovely gift for Mother's Day, birthdays, or any time you want to gift a friend with something special. Or perhaps you're giving yourself the gift of gratitude!The secret to peace and contentment can be found in developing a habit of gratitude. Thankfulness changes our perspective and reprograms our mood, fostering a rich happiness. Growing Grateful will help you discover that, in good times and bad, being a grateful person can lead you to a life of lasting satisfaction.

Award-winning author Mary Kassian provides readers a biblical guide to becoming the strong, resilient, capable women God created them to be.Our culture teaches us that it's important for women to be strong. The Bible agrees. Unfortunately, culture's idea of what makes a woman strong doesn't always align with the Bible's. As a result, Christians often have a skewed view of what constitutes strength. In The Right Kind of Strong, Mary Kassian delves into Paul's exhortation in 2 Timothy about the women of the church in Ephesus and uncovers warnings and truths about seven habits that can sap women's strength. She helps readers avoid these pitfalls bycarefully considering the people they allow into their lives,taking control of their minds by taking every thought captive,quickly and regularly confessing sin,intentionally engaging their emotions,living out what they’re learning,developing confident convictions, andembracing their human weakness and leaning on the Lord.She reveals how, by implementing these seven habits, Christian women can walk in freedom and grow to be strong God's way.

Learn to live courageously as you find your confidence in God.What if we stopped placing our confidence in the things of this world and instead put our trust in the only one who is truly trustworthy?Let's be honest, we (all) have a confidence problem—individually and culturally. We are all plagued by fears, insecurities, and self-doubt. The prevailing cultural wisdom says you must simply believe more strongly in yourself that all you really need more self-love, self-affirmation, and self-assurance to become confident women. But award-winning author and speaker Mary A. Kassian explains that discovering the fear of the Lord is the true key to overcoming your personal fears and insecurities. “In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence.” (Proverbs 14:26)In The Right Kind of Confidence, a follow-up to her popular book The Right Kind of Strong, Mary again draws on her vast biblical knowledge to show you a better way to navigate life. She compares the Bible's definition of confidence with the world’s well-worn self-help formulas and sets you on the right path. As you work through The Right Kind of Confidence, you'll discover:The true meaning of confidenceThe difference between negative fear and positive fearHow to turn the Enemy's tool of fear on its head with strong confidence Whether you're seeking more confidence or already feeling full of it, when you lean into a source of confidence that is unchanging, firm, and trustworthy, you’ll become more like the bold, courageous woman God created you to be. The Right Kind of Confidence will equip you with the knowledge and tools to become a confident woman who can face even the most daunting circumstances with remarkable strength and courage.