📘New Book Release: From Pain To Purpose
😊 Good, Blessed Encouraging Mondays, Family, Friends & New Encouragers!
Today, I am excited and grateful to officially announce the release of my newest book:
From Pain to Purpose: Finding Strength, Stability, and Purpose Through Christ
This book was not written from a place of having all the answers.
It was written from a place of walking with God through real life.
Through seasons of pain.
Through seasons of confusion.
Through seasons of waiting.
Through seasons where I could not always see what God was doing.
Like many of you, I have experienced moments where I wondered:
“Lord, what are You doing?”
“Why am I going through this?”
“Will anything good come from this pain?”
Yet as I look back over my life, I can clearly see something now that I could not always see then:
God was working long before I understood what He was doing.
That realization became one of the foundations of this book.
More Than a Book About Pain
This is not a book about staying stuck in pain.
It is a book about moving through pain with Christ.
It is about learning to recognize God’s presence in difficult seasons.
It is about discovering that healing is a process.
It is about grace.
It is about surrender.
It is about allowing God to transform wounds into wisdom and struggles into testimony.
Most importantly, it is about learning that purpose can still emerge from places we never would have chosen for ourselves.
💛 Bridging the Gap
One of the themes woven throughout Encouraging Mondays is helping people move beyond simply knowing about God to developing a deeper relationship with Him.
This book continues that journey.
It explores what it means to trust God when life does not make sense.
It explores what it means to surrender daily.
It explores what it means to allow God’s Word and His Spirit to shape our responses, our thinking, and our lives.
Because faith is not only something we believe.
Faith is something we live.
💛 How This Book Connects to My Memoir
Many of you know that my memoir was the first book I published.
My memoir shares portions of my personal journey and some of the experiences that shaped my life and faith.
If the memoir tells part of the story…
From Pain to Purpose shares many of the lessons God taught me through that story.
The memoir reflects on where God brought me from.
From Pain to Purpose reflects on what God revealed along the way.
Together, they remind us that God is faithful even when we do not fully understand what He is doing.
💛 If This Season Sounds Familiar
This book may encourage you if you are:
• carrying emotional pain
• recovering from disappointment
• navigating uncertainty
• learning to trust God again
• seeking healing and spiritual growth
• trying to find purpose in difficult circumstances
• longing for peace and stability in Christ
You are not alone.
God is still present.
God is still working.
And your story is not finished.
💛 Continue the Journey
If you have been encouraged by Encouraging Mondays, you may also enjoy:
My Memoir
From Pain to Purpose
He Will Hold You (Poetry Collection)
The Armor of God Bedtime Stories – Series Book One
The Encouraging Mondays Newsletter
Each resource was created with the same mission:
To encourage hearts, strengthen minds, and point people toward Christ.
💛 Final Encouragement
Pain is real.
But pain is not the end of the story.
God is able to meet us in our hardest places and do what only He can do.
My prayer is that this book encourages you to keep trusting, keep growing, and keep walking with Him.
Because before we see purpose…
There is often pain.
And before we understand what God is doing…
He is already at work.
📘 To explore more and find the direct link to this new book release:
From Pain to Purpose: Finding Strength, Stability, and Purpose Through Christ
visit The Book Nook Page on this Website
💞 Much love for you all!
😊 Have an amazingly Blessed day and week.
— Shawna S.
Encouraging Mondays Ministry
Coaching the Heart & Mind
