Subject: May/2010
Newsletter - Start Anew with the Source of All Love
BOOK CLUB GIVE-A-WAY
WINNERS!
Thanks to
the generosity of my publisher, the following book clubs won copies of Return
to Your First Love:
*The
Blessed Women of Las Vegas Book Club*
*Sista
Talk Book Club*
*ITCOMS Book Club*
*Club Avid Divas*
Congratulations to all the
winners! Enjoy! I look forward to hearing from you.
GOOD NEWS!!! My publisher is giving away first print
copies again. Have your book club
representative send an email to contest@waverlymedia.com by June 15, 2010 to receive details for an opportunity to win
14 books for your club. Visit my
website, www.teresarjones.com, for
more information. Thanks to all the
other clubs that entered the contest. We
encourage you to try again.
Keep Going
Last month I
discussed the challenge of getting started.
If getting started is challenging enough, if you are like me, sometimes
I grapple to keep going. This is
especially true when the results you seek are not instantaneous for a goal you
are trying to reach, or for a difficult situation you want resolved. Oftentimes, it is not the trial or the task
itself that wears us down, but it is the length of it that causes us to
waver. Circumstances can become even
more daunting when we can't determine the outcome.
Persistence alone
is not enough to keep going, because we can persist in the wrong direction
which will send you on a detour from God's plan. God tends to only reveal his
plan for our lives in a step-by-step process and this requires obedience. We must have faith in God and in His plan
for our lives, which causes us to relinquish the need to know the minute details
along the way. Faith is the material
needed to fill the seemingly empty spaces and gaps between where we currently are
and where we want to be. And it is
impossible to please God without it.
Faith at
times can be a hard pill to swallow, but it gives us the wherewithal we need to
keep going. Life has taught me that the
consequences of giving up are far more costly than the inconveniences to keep
going.
The keynote
speaker at a networking event I attended last week shared her inspiring testimony,
which left an indelible impression. In
the midst of launching her business, she almost went bankrupt. She felt like giving up, but then decided to
call her mother for advice. Her mother
asked her, "How do you know you are not giving up five minutes before the
miracle?" Her mother went on to explain that
she was not telling her she couldn't quit - but reiterated that she needed to
know unequivocally that she wasn't quitting five minutes before the
miracle. In other words, if she would
have quit without knowing for a certainty what the outcome would be, she would
have set in motion a lifetime of regret.
By the way, her business has expanded to an international organization.
Speaking the
truth in love,
Teresa R.
Jones
Author, Return to Your First Love
