(Author Signed Copy) A Time to Dance: Chasing Joy in Difficult Seasons (Book)

Description

Very few (if any) of us will journey through this life without meeting the bathroom floor. Seasons of brokenness affect us all. I say the bathroom floor because that’s where I found myself… Ugly crying, broken, and lost on the bathroom floor. Sadness, fear, and debilitating anxiety pouring through me. How did I get here? And how will I ever get out?

But in that moment, God reached into my life and held out His hand. “Take just one step with me, my child. Just one. Lean into me. Let me hold you. And when you’re ready, we’ll take another. Trust me with your heart and we will walk out of this wilderness and step into your healing, hope, peace, and joy… together.”

And because of Him, I’m a completely different person today than the broken one that He held on that bathroom floor. He healed me. He completely changed my life.

Friends, I don’t have all of the answers that I know your heart is so desperately seeking, but I do know the One who carries us through. He has been an unwavering presence in my journey, gently and lovingly teaching me so many things along the way and then pressing on my heart to write. You see, this is the book that I wish someone would have been able to hand me two years ago in the middle of my own dark and heartbreaking season. This is the book that my heart truly needed. Because when you find yourself indescribably broken with pieces of your heart shattered and scattered, sometimes it’s difficult to believe that you can ever be made whole again… But Jesus!

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In A Time to Dance: Chasing Joy in Difficult Seasons, Shannon shares an intimate glimpse into her journey of drawing close to Jesus in the hard and letting Him pour through her heavy, broken and grieving heart. Her book provides an easy-to-follow outline of ways that we can truly clear the clutter, lean in, redefine who we are in Him, and refocus on where He is taking us, even in the most difficult seasons.

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Praise for A Time to Dance: Chasing Joy in Difficult Seasons

Grab your cup of coffee (or tea), a pen, and journal, and be ready to write down gems like this one: “Joy. It is not a season or an emotion. It’s a process of placing our heart in God’s loving hands, anchoring our hope and peace to His promises, accepting His truth about our identity, and faithfully submitting our life to His guidance
and protection.”

The author starts her story broken on the bathroom floor. My story started in the same way, only mine was on the closet floor. Her healing process and words were like a balm to my own healing journey. What a beautiful truth to know that I am not alone! Not alone in my struggle, and not alone as I try to dig deeper to find joy within my healing.

I appreciated this book not only because it resonated with my own story, but because it brought both confirmation to things I have already been trying to do, as well as giving me new things I can put into action towards healing even more and learning how to better lean into
God through it all.

I highly recommend this book to read and to put on your list of “perfect books to gift to others.”

Erica A.

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