Disciple's Diary
The Meditations and Musings of a Meandering Daughter
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Do not be discouraged faithful daughter. The circumstances of your life are designed with purpose. Your Father has heard your pleas to know Him and has set your course with your heart’s cry in mind. He has already traveled the road up ahead which He now lays before you. However hostile or unwelcoming the territory in which you sojourn may seem; you are not abandoned. Every step is ordained. Your Father sees and knows the path that you take. He loves you dearly and desires only to bless you and to refine you to a closer reflection of His image. God Almighty longs for you to know Him as sufficient for your every need and to become the primary relationship of your life. He can work even the meanest circumstances of your life for your good and to His glory if you will simply trust and follow His voice. Rest assured, disciple daughter, that each of the places of solitude, of testing and of stripping away that you encounter can be transformed into the most precious time of sweet fellowship and of blessed dwelling in the presence of the One who loves you as no other. This can only be accomplished by seeking to nurture an intimate relationship with Him above all else. All of life’s other cares, desires and distractions must be tied to the altar, laid at The Father’s feet and trusted to His keeping. Every goal and aspiration must be tested by fire and may as a result be burned as dross. Embarking on this journey will require that the responding disciple daughter lay aside every preconceived notion of Him in order to see Him as He really is.
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Disciples Diary is the second book in Cindees series written for women journeying to become all that God has created them to be. This edition is a collection of poems, devotional teachings, and reflective narrative, intended to encourage and to provoke thought in those discipled daughters; who may discover that they are now traveling across terrain much like the territories that the heroine in the story crosses. Her Valley of Shadows may be found sitting at the bedside of a terminally ill loved one. Her Wide Wilderness of Want may appear in the form of a bankruptcy or through the loss of a business or a home. Divorce-court proceedings may compose the walls of the dark pit of loneliness, in which the disciple daughter now sits trapped as she watches the fogs of confusion and doubt begin to roll in overhead. A rebellious child, an unfaithful spouse, and seemingly countless unanswered prayers may all contribute to the tangled briers and twisted branches of the wilderness thicket that blocks the suns warmth and light from the path on which the present-day sojourner now travels. Such is the terrain that might be traced on the map of a modern-day disciple daughter.
Fearfully Female and Wonderfully Woman: Becoming All That God Created is the first book in Cindee's series and is designed to be a navigational guide for Christian women of all ages and backgrounds. While Disciples Diary is designed as a devotional collection; this book is more informational in format. Topics addressed in this study include body image, self -esteem, developing healthy friendships, growing old in a youth oriented culture, developing our spiritual gifts, and finding our place of ministry. Fearfully Female and Wonderfully Woman would be a valuable reference tool as well as a guide for individual or small group study.
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About the Author
Cindee is the wife of a retired Navy E.O.D. officer and has a heart for empowering and equipping women around the globe. It deeply concerns her that most women do not know how fearfully wonderful they are in the eyes of their creator and as a result are settling for less than He intended for their lives (Psalm 139:14). Since leaving her position of 14 years as a faculty member within the sociology department of a large university, Cindee has established an interactive website forum and speaking ministry called" Becoming All God Created Ministries" Through her writing and speaking, Cindee seeks to present life changing truths for women in an easy to grasp and non-threatening manner. She does so by carefully blending humor, illustrations drawn from a female perspective and sociological theories with Scripture and kingdom principles. Using her knowledge and experience as a university instructor, military wife, lay-counselor, sociologist and Bible teacher, Cindee speaks to such diverse topics as body image, women and leadership, spiritual warfare from a female perspective, aging within a youth oriented society, and building and maintaining healthy interpersonal relationships.