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New Women’s Devotional Encourages Spiritual Renewal Through Prayer, Reflection, and Purpose-Driven Action

  A new Christian devotional is inspiring women to slow down, listen for God’s voice, and step boldly into the purpose He designed for them. Manifesting Purpose: Christian Devotional & Journal for Women is quickly becoming a meaningful tool for readers seeking spiritual consistency, emotional healing, and clarity about their direction in life. Created specifically for Christian women between the ages of 18 and 65, the devotional blends Scripture-based insight, guided journaling, gratitude practices, and mindset renewal to help readers rebuild inner strength and reconnect with their identity in God. Its gentle tone and practical structure make it especially valuable for women navigating seasons of uncertainty, transition, or personal growth. A Devotional Rooted in Authentic Faith and Personal Discovery The author developed this devotional after her own journey of rediscovering purpose through prayer and journaling. For years, she excelled in different areas of life but fe...

New Christian Devotional Helps Women Break Through Emotional Barriers and Step Into Their God-Designed Purpose

  A powerful new women’s devotional, Manifesting Purpose: Christian Devotional & Journal for Women , is offering Christian women a refreshing pathway to clarity, emotional renewal, and spiritual alignment. This book speaks directly to women who feel spiritually stuck, mentally overwhelmed, or eager to rediscover their purpose through Scripture and intentional reflection. Written for women ages 18 to 65, the devotional blends biblical insight, guided journaling, daily prayer practices, and practical goal-setting to transform a woman’s inner world from the ground up. With its soul-centered approach, the book is quickly becoming a trusted companion for readers seeking depth, direction, and a stronger relationship with God. A Devotional Rooted in Real-Life Experience and Spiritual Awakening What makes Manifesting Purpose so impactful is that it wasn’t written from theory — it was born from lived experience. The author began her journey during a personal season of searching a...

What Growing Up in Shaolin Taught Me About Survival, Leadership, and Community

In From Grit to Glory , I use my stories to tell the readers how I have managed to rise out of the Jamaican ghetto of Shaolin to senior managerial positions in international engineering companies. However, not very long before I sat in a boardroom or led a large team, I was taught by Shaolin the basics of survival, leadership, and community. The things that I learnt there, were not taught in the books; it was embedded in the day-to-day activities. My personality has been formed in a setting characterized by strength and solidarity, which has continued to shape my character to this day. Visit:  https://garoldhamilton.com/ Shaolin was an extraordinary place, a place that was misunderstood by the outsiders. It was also a childhood of poverty, cramped houses and low opportunities but strength, creativity and togetherness. The struggles were genuine and the struggles were incessant yet they developed a culture of people knowing how to make it through with ingenuity and support to one ...

How Early Entrepreneurship Shaped My Path: Lessons from Selling Box Drinks, Bag Juice, and June Plums

  Entrepreneurship is commonly represented as something that starts in the adult life - through business plans, investors, and corporate organizations. In my case, the journey towards being an entrepreneur started a long time before I even knew the term “entrepreneur”. It began in the very center of Shaolin which is the Jamaican ghetto I grew up in with the most basic of businesses: selling box drinks, bag juice and June plums. These initial encounters were not just a way of getting pocket money. They formed the core of my attitude and values and the style of leadership-there are some lessons that I still use today as a global engineering executive. In From Grit to Glory , I give an account of how these formative years were not only the foundation of my career, but my personality, as they taught me what no classroom could teach me. Visit:  https://garoldhamilton.com/ Living in Shaolin, there was little to be done, yet there was much to be created. People in the neighborhood ...

Travel Isn't Therapy... Except When It Is

  (A wanderer's unintentional guide to healing, gaining a new point of view, and finding your sense of humor again.) Let me start by saying that no one packs their suitcase with the thought, "This trip will make me better." Most of us just want to get away from the noise: emails piling up like fruit flies, the same four walls, and maybe a life that feels like it's on autopilot. That was Trevor Wilson as well. Not a guru who waves crystals. No “find yourself” itinerary. Just a guy who thought he was chasing passport stamps but fell into something softer. Call it clarity. Or a new point of view. The world gently hits you in the back of the head sometimes. Anyway, here's how travel can be therapy without ever saying so. 1. The Most Unintentional Healing Process Trevor used to say he never went on trips to “grow.” He traveled because curiosity pulled at him like a toddler in a grocery store: always there, a little annoying, impossible to ignore. Picture...

The Trip That Changed Everything: How One School Vacation Changed Everything

  You don’t think your life will change on a cold, rainy morning when your socks are half-wet and your backpack smells like a sandwich from yesterday. Most of the time, great turning points come disguised as normal days. Mine began on a train platform in London — Victoria Station — when steam still hung around and rationing wasn’t just a fun fact from history but a part of everyday life. Visit: https://trevorjameswilson.com/ It’s hard to explain the hunger that comes from growing up in muted color if you’ve never been in a place where the air feels so gray it might as well be part of the concrete. You don’t realize it when you’re in it, but life just feels flat. Expected. Maybe good enough. Then one day your school offers a two-week trip to the Swiss Alps, and something in your chest starts to flicker like someone is checking the lights to see if a room is worth entering. At the time, I didn’t know that the little flicker I saw from the platform was a fuse. And once it lit up, ther...

Celebrating the Quiet Moments

In a modern world that is full of noise, rush, and hurry, A Walk with Grandpere: Mickeys Souvenirs encourages the reader to find the bravery to tune down the noise and rush and reinstill the sense of the remarkable beauty in the silent aspects of life. The book is an ode to the generational journey of a loved one, small and gentle experiences that can transform us into better people, create the warmest memories, and the knowledge of what is really important to us through the tender, multi-generational experience of Mickey as a young girl, as an adult, and finally, as a loving grand-mother. The novel begins when seven-year-old Mickey comes with her family to the Maine seashores to spend their annual summer holiday. With her parents and her little brother PJ besides her, and her favorite French grandfather, Pipere, Mickey enters a world of simple pleasures: seal shells scattered on the beach, tide pools teaming with small living creatures, and the salty smell of the sea. Nevertheless, it...

The Kind of Vulnerability We Don’t Admit Easily: Why Lost in Harlem Feels So Personal

  Some books tell a story. Lost in Harlem lets you inside one. Harlem doesn’t explain his life from a safe distance. He doesn’t write like someone who walked away from his past and now knows exactly what it meant. Instead, he writes from a place where the emotions are still close — not healed over, not forgotten, not turned into neat lessons. And that’s what makes this manuscript feel so personal. There’s a certain rhythm to the way Harlem speaks. Not poetic for the sake of being poetic, but emotional in a way that sometimes spills over the edges. It’s the voice of someone who feels deeply and tries to make sense of those feelings one line at a time. Early Life Written in Hints Instead of Essays Harlem doesn’t give a detailed autobiography. He doesn’t linger on his childhood or analyze it. But the small moments he does share — a brother stepping out of the picture, the quiet but consistent presence of his father, the emotional gaps with his mother — these details do more ...

When a Book Feels Like Someone Talking to You: The Conversational Soul of Lost in Harlem

  Some books feel like they were written for an audience. Lostin Harlem doesn’t. It feels like it was written because Harlem needed to talk to someone — anyone — who would listen without interrupting. The tone isn’t polished or distant. It’s personal. Direct. Almost like he’s sitting across from you, explaining parts of his life he hasn’t explained to anyone else. That’s what makes the manuscript so unexpectedly intimate. You don’t feel like you’re reading a story. You feel like you’re being trusted with one. A Childhood Told in Short, Sharp Pieces Harlem’s early years aren’t described with long storytelling arcs. Instead, they come through in small pieces he drops as if they’re obvious facts — a brother leaving, subtle tension with his mother, the quiet reliability of his father. These details aren’t exaggerated. They’re simply there, shaping him quietly the way early experiences shape most people. He never announces, “This made me who I am.” He lets the details speak f...

The Parts of Us We Don’t Say Out Loud: What Lost in Harlem Teaches About Emotional Transparency

  There’s something rare about a book that doesn’t hide behind structure. Lost in Harlem isn’t shaped around a perfect storyline, nor does it try to polish itself into something neat. Instead, it lets the emotional truth lead the way. Harlem, the narrator, doesn’t pretend to be composed. He doesn’t pretend to be wise. He doesn’t even pretend to be strong half the time. He simply speaks. And in a world where people hold so much inside, that kind of transparency is quietly powerful. The Kind of Childhood That Doesn’t Leave Visible Scars, But Leaves Real Ones Harlem gives only glimpses of his childhood, but those glimpses are enough. He mentions his brother leaving, the strange distance with his mother, the steady presence of his father. Nothing is exaggerated. Nothing is framed as a dramatic trauma. Instead, it feels like the kind of upbringing many people have — complicated in a subtle way. Sometimes the hardest emotional habits come from those subtle complications. As a ...