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Ever get tired of feeling like you’re not good enough, smart enough, or gifted enough? If so, Renee Swope has a message for you: you already have something special to offer the world!

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Built on the hope-infusing truths found in the 2012 Retailer's Choice Winner, A Confident Heart, Renee Swope's new 60-day devotional takes women on a journey toward lasting confidence. Swope has expanded her popular "When I say--God says" statements and Scriptures, and offers women a daily thought-map to help them exchange their most common and crippling self-doubts with God's transforming truths.

Like having a conversation with a friend and mentor, Renee's authentic style and soul-stirring devotions include personal stories, powerful biblical teaching, and real-life application wrapped around one of God's promises each day to help readers:

•live confidently in their God-given roles, relationships and responsibilities
•break free from people-pleasing and performance-based living
•believe God's promises and apply his truth in their daily lives
•trust the certainty of God's truth over their circumstances and emotions

The Friday 56

I'm looking forward to reading more of Renee's writings on the subject of a confident heart. I just started the book, so here's a blurb from 56% on my reader:

"My unhealthy mindset made it hard to forgive, because I replayed hurtful words and situations in my mind over and over. It's very difficult (if not impossible!) to forgive what you regularly focus on." -- Renee Swope

About The Author

Renee Swope is a popular national women's conference speaker, radio show co-host, and the executive director of radio and devotions at Proverbs 31 Ministries. She is the author of A Confident Heart and a contributing author to three books, including a Gold Medallion finalist and a People's Choice Award finalist, as well as several online and print magazines. Renee is a featured writer for Encouragement for Today, online devotions that currently touch over 500,000 lives each day across the world. She lives in North Carolina with her husband and three children. Find out more at www.reneeswope.com.

What Others Are Saying

"A Confident Heart is a captivating, story-driven book that provides real solutions to the real doubts and fears we all face."--Jennifer Rothschild, author of Me, Myself & Lies

"You'll never be the same after you read this book!"--Sheri Rose Shepherd, bestselling author of His Princess and His Princess Bride

Confident Heart Devotional, A: 60 Days to Stop Doubting Yourself (A Confident Heart)

Skywatch Friday

This is a northern view from our ranch, looking towards some of our other neighbors on the hill. Where I live, we're zoned so that others may build on their 2-acre parcel of land all around us. Today has been such a pretty day and I just love looking out at these puffy, heart clouds.

Although some of the avocado groves are being cut down, you can see the farmer's working hard on another new season of strawberries... Can't wait for the harvest!

Do you like avocados and strawberries?

Have a wonderful weekend,

“You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me." C. S. Lewis

One of the perks to living in SoCal is finding a pair of hawks that mate for life perched on a nearby tree. Not just any old tree mind you, but sitting on my neighbor's Eucalyptus tree. The weather has been so nice for February. I was putting up the wash on our clothesline when I looked up and saw these magnificent birds with their short tails and broad wings. I ran into the house to grab my camera. Got one picture and then they flew away.

Let me introduce you to our local Red-tail Hawks!

Wikipedia Says...

The Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) is a bird of prey, one of three species colloquially known in the United States as the "chickenhawk," though it rarely preys on standard sized chickens.It breeds throughout most of North America, from western Alaska and northern Canada to as far south as Panama and the West Indies, and is one of the most common buteos in North America. Red-tailed Hawks can acclimate to all the biomes within their range. There are fourteen recognized subspecies, which vary in appearance and range. It is one of the largest members of the genus Buteo in North America, typically weighing from 690 to 1,600 g (1.52 to 3.53 lb) and measuring 45–65 cm (18–26 in) in length, with a wingspan from 110–145 cm (43–57 in). The Red-tailed Hawk displays sexual dimorphism in size, with females averaging about 25% heavier than males.
Red-tailed Hawk