05/06/2026
I got the idea to write this book while I was praying a prayer of thanksgiving, during prayer, I wanted to stop and practice something my spiritual father had taught us: to intentionally practice gratitude, to sit down with a pen and paper and write down actual concrete things you’re thankful for.
I hesitated because I was so deep and blissful in prayer and didn’t want to interrupt my momentum with a pen, paper, lights, thoughts and more, but the nudge wouldn’t leave me, so write is what I did.
As I write, I started to see it as a book, a collection of testimonies too long for 2 minutes on a pulpit at a service, and I realized that just like your testimony gives others hope in the church, mine could give the world hope through a book.
As a writer that I am, with my unemployed anxious backside, I started and finished the first draft of the manuscript in 1 week. Editing took much longer, yes, but it took me 1 week to write something that could bring hope to someone. I’m not sure why I mention this but…
My story is not one of a thousand sales on the month of release, that’s because I suck at marketing and need help with that. My story however, is one of a few sales with life changing reviews. Reviews that make me even more grateful that I wrote a book pouring out my gratitude.
The best kind of gratitude is the kind that you find when you’re smack in the middle of difficult times, and this is what I found. With the tears, the heavy heart, the deferred hope, and the fatigue of anxiety and survival, joy still manages to shine through and sustain you.
Get the book and let that be your story!
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