Train Your Brain, Claim Your Power

It can be very comforting when you read someone else's words describing your situation.  In that moment, you feel understood.  You realize that you are not alone.  That is Martha Butler's gift - to capture those feelings of frustration, fear, sorrow, and discouragement and carry the message that you have what you need.  You can manage obstacles.  You can get through this.  Quietly walk with God and you can do anything.  

James Mark is one of those people who quietly serves others.  From the Peace Corps to special needs educator, James has worked for others.  When a friend gave him a copy of the Diary of St. Faustina, his life was changed.  James began to study the Divine Mercy Chaplet and pray for others.  He recognized an opportunity to help others keep the Chaplet fresh in their minds, rather than said by rote, by writing thoughts inspired during prayers.  The Divine Mercy Chaplet comforts those in distress.  To hear others doing the Chaplet, EWTN broadcasts the Divine Mercy Chaplet in song every afternoon.  

"Galina's Hope: Beyond the Fire" tells a personal story of tragedy.  The loss of her children in a brutal murder left her with little will to live.  However, Galina was raised as a child of faith.  Although she didn't want to go on, she allowed God to lead her forward.  By his grace, she discovered hope, found loving relationships to sustain her, and rebuilt her life surrounded by a new family.  Her life is a testimony to the power of God to move in our lives, regardless of the circumstances in which we find ourselves.  

As we trick or treat during Halloween, it's a great time to pick up Wendy Soria's intriguing romance novel, "Starlight."  Beware, she shares a compelling warning about how what you don't know can hurt you.   Interwoven in the intrigue is a message to stay alert to potential dangers so that you may have the opportunity to save a life.  

Not ready for a fright? Wendy's other books, "Legacy:Expressions of Wisdom and Advice" offer you an opportunity to share your wisdom and advice for those you love for posterity.  For 'tweens, young adults, older adults and missionaries.    

Mother of the Church T.J. Johnson has taught Bible studies for years.  She takes her knowledge of the Book of Genesis into four books through The Genesis Men series:  Adam and Sons, Noah and Sons, Abraham and Sons, and Jacob and Sons - Twelve Tribes.  And to top that off, T.J. lets us have some fun with the Bible with her three crossword puzzle books, Chapter and Verse.  We welcome T.J. Johnson to Rebuilding Your LIfe Radio.  

Hilary Sinclair has had an on again, off again relationship with spirit, but has always returned, finding higher levels of consciousness along the way.  The journey is recorded in poems in her book "The Yearning Heart".  

Daniel Thompson, author of "The Lord's Prayer," used to rapidly recite the words of the prayer he commonly used.  He didn't pause to reflect upon their meaning.  One day, he realized this and was inspired to write his book.  Drawing on over half of the 900 Biblical verses that relate to the prayer, Thompson provides a legacy book with spaces to study, write prayers and engage in community challenges.  Since publication, over 1,000,000 people have reached out to him on Facebook.   

Dennis Bray served with the U.S. Army and Department of Defense for 37 years.  Simultaneously, he was studying the end times in the Bible.  To do this work, he had to study a different way of using language that is found in the Bible and its symbols.  For him, it is like studying mathematics.  In this case, he is showing how America fits into the Book of Revelations and other passages throughout the Bible.   In 1997, he was told to write this down, that these things will happen and people need to get ready.  There are eerie parallels to events happening today: people leaving big cities, a lack of security, high taxes, no representation, riots and fear.  In the Woe to America chapter, people are seen being driven off the coasts to the area between the Appalachians and the Rockies.  Good or bad, there will be a harvest of the vineyard.   Then the positive truth of Isaiah 18 - I will rest with them.  This is not meant to frighten.  It demonstrates that the end is positive.  You can get prepared.  

Several years after a traumatic experience, the Lord placed in it on Andrew Choi's heart to spread a message of hope.  He has done this as a minister in local churches, and as an Army and hospital chaplain.    He studied how hope is a major theme in the Bible from the Garden of Eden in Genesis through the the final pages in John's Revelations over several years before being inspired to write the book.  He has ministered to many who felt hopeless in life's circumstances.  He has been there himself.  Now he works to change them from the inside out  as the Bible inspires them and changes people's minds with positive messages.    

Have you taken part in mission trips to different parts of the world?  Daniel Fulton has been actively involved in such work for over 15 years.  He shares his experiences as a mission contractor building in Honduras and Cuba in "God's Will in Cuba."  Traveling to Latin America since 2003, he has had the opportunity to witness the lifestyle and needs of the communities there.  The people live in the kind of poverty where the cost of a Bible is equivalent to a month's salary.  It's been a journey back in time to see automobiles from the 1950s still in active use and to see people improvise ways to get from one town to another.   Although there is ample water, it is polluted.  That is the work of the mission contractors there - to build water filtration systems.