Controlled Burn by Brooke Martin

 

What if life’s fires can not only be controlled but can also spur new life? In Controlled Burn, Emmy-winning news anchor and reporter Brooke Martin helps readers navigate their own fires with purpose and emerge stronger than before.

Confronted with a fatal diagnosis for their unborn baby girl, Brooke Martin and her husband faced an unimaginable choice, grappling with how to move forward amid a sea of unanswerable questions. Yet, in the midst of unspeakable grief, Brooke’s faith and vulnerability not only laid the foundation for her own healing but also for a global movement toward resilience and recovery.

Controlled Burn: Rising From the Ashes to Forge an Unshakable Faith weaves together invaluable advice, spiritual insights, and raw truths learned from Brooke Martin’s greatest trials, offering readers guidance to walk through life’s fires and come out unburned. Whether in pregnancy, the workplace, marriage, or otherwise, we are bound to experience suffering in life. How we respond can be the difference between our destruction and our growth.

In Controlled Burn, Brooke Martin will guide readers in:

• healing and moving forward after tragedy or hardship
• gaining a better understanding of their natural talents and gifts
• listening for God’s voice in times of adversity and recognizing suffering as an invitation to grow closer to Him
• shifting their perspective of pain into a period of self-growth
• discovering how to use their own experiences to help others in similar circumstances

Controlled Burn proves that miracles can happen when we are willing to surrender ourselves to God and walk into the fire with faith.

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Controlled Burn: Rising From the Ashes to Forge an Unshakable Faith: Brooke Martin: 9781962435109: Amazon.com: Books

Brooke Martin is an EMMY-winning news anchor turned author and speaker. For 15 years, Brooke told the community’s stories never knowing she would one day be compelled to tell her own. After the fatal diagnosis and death of their daughter, Emma Noelle, Brooke has worked to show others how life’s fires can bring new growth, greater beauty, and everlasting hope. Brooke lives in Zionsville, Indiana with her husband Cole and two children, Max and Marlowe. 

My thoughts...

This is the perfect book for everyone. Hard times come and having this book is like having a best friend with you all the time. It would make the best book to give to friends going through a rough patch. It has so many great points.
Mary Reader received this book from the publisher for review. A favorable review was not required, and all views expressed are our own.

All The Good : Doing Life After the Diploma

 

This uniquely illustrated, full-color gift book encourages graduates everywhere to do good in the world as they prepare for their next adventure. Based on a much-loved quote, All the Good shares thoughtful stories and quotes from a broad range of people who made a difference, inspiring grads to pursue their own greatness by doing good.

All the Good will give graduates a fresh perspective on how to live a life of purpose and how to add Do Good into their plans and goals for the future. Each chapter focuses on a different line from the quote that begins Do all the good you can. The bright and modern design takes this inspirational quote to a new generation of graduates, sharing stories, quotes, and examples of people who did good work in their respective circumstances. Each section of the book focuses on a line from this timeless quote:

• Do all the good you can
• By all the means you can
• In all the ways you can
• In all the places you can
• At all the times you can
• To all the people you can
• As long as ever you can

With anecdotes ranging from unknown heroes to famous figures like Stephen Hawking and Bryan Stevenson of Just Mercy, the book also includes other quotes on doing good from Desmond Tutu, John Steinbeck, Dolly Parton, and many of the other names these grads have studied in school.

Grads who might be familiar with John Wesley s famous Do all the good you can quote will gain a new and fresh take on what it could mean for this next phase of their lives. This timely gift book will also feature lined space for grads to write down their ambitions and dreams about what they can contribute to the world as they contemplate what it means to do good once their diplomas are in hand. 

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All the Good: Doing Life After the Diploma: Dexterity Books Editorial: 9781947297289: Amazon.com: Books

My Thoughts...

This was a really great book for the graduate in your life. It's very inspiring.

You can pair this gift book with a card and money and give that special graduate a gift to remember.

The Mary Reader received this book from the publisher for review. A favorable review was not required and all views expressed are our own.