Books

About A Time to Dance: Chasing Joy in Difficult Seasons

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!



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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About Women’s Christian Journal: You Are Beautiful

This series of women’s Christian journals was designed to encourage your heart, inspire your spirit, and anchor your hope in the One who loves you most!

Filled with encouraging and inspiring verses of the Bible, the pages were purposely created unlined so that you can explore journaling in its many different forms – Writing, Drawing, or Otherwise. The intention behind this design is beautifully simple: We invite you to release your expectations of formality, structure, and perfectionism and give yourself permission to just embrace and enjoy the journey as it comes!

Write a verse that touches you, a quote that encourages you, or just a thought that is sitting on your mind. Draw a picture that expresses how your heart feels in that moment, even if you don’t think you’re an artist. Jot down a moment when you felt God’s presence in your day or recognized His fingerprints on your journey.

Have fun with it, relax in it, let your guard down and just be you. Then watch as God works through you and within you in that space!

Our heartfelt prayer at Raising a Blessing is that while you are using this journal, you can feel God wrapping His arms around you, guiding you with His steady hand, and holding you through every moment of joy, sorrow, shaking courage, and overwhelming delight!

You are seen, held, known, and loved by the One who loves you most. Many blessings on the beautiful journey ahead!

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COMING UP NEXT!

Coming Soon, He Calls Me Irreplaceable: Unlocking the Woman Within, shares the next powerful chapter in my own spiritual journey. You see, my last book, A Time to Dance: Chasing Joy in Difficult Seasons, was about healing and growth. It was about a beautiful season that anchored my identity in the Father’s heart and taught me how to walk in His love, grace, peace, and joy. And if you are walking through a season of healing, I highly encourage you to start there, because He is the God who heals and He will pour love and hope into you today.

But this book, this next chapter, is about that moment the Holy Spirit whispers an invitation to your heart, calling you into a total deep-end-of-the-pool experience with Him. It’s about that God nudge, that gentle tap, that says, “It’s time. Time to level up the intensity. Time to move out of your comfort zone. Time to go all in.” It’s that moment that He calls us anchor it all (yes, all of it!) in our faith in Him; to grow and stretch, reaching fully for the impossible and allowing Him to be faithful to fill in the gap between what we can do and what He can do through us.

This book is about asking God to absolutely, irreversibly, and unexplainably set your heart on fire. It’s about standing in all that you are in Him and walking in His anointing over your life. This book is about unlocking your gifts and your calling and hearing the voice of the Father say, “That’s my girl!” as you dance in all the beauty that makes you the incredible you.

Make no mistake, this book will both challenge you and excite you, as it did the same for me. It will leave you chewing and thinking on things that you never thought possible. But this book will also deeply, deeply bless you as God whispers all throughout it, “You are mine and you are irreplaceable.”

You see, this book is about discovering the woman that God has placed inside of you and living fully alive in all that God has called her to be! This book is about walking through radical obedient faith. This book is about breaking chains and finding truths. It’s about going beyond the pre-conceived ceiling and grabbing all that God has in store for your heart!

It’s about discovery and love and growth and life-changing peace and joy.

It’s all about Jesus.

If you’d like to be kept up-to-date on when this book will be available, please email us at Shannon@RaisingaBlessing.com.