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Finally the Bride / Finally Fearless: Overcoming Obstacles to Finding True Love
Book One:
Finally the Bride: Finding Hope While Waiting
The Single Woman's Guide to the Wait for a Husband and Marriage
Why Would God Care About My Love Life?
From the woman behind the screenplay and novel, Never the Bride, comes a roller coaster of a love story with God. Cheryl McKay pulls no punches about what it's really like to be single, with your age creeping up, and no end in sight to the wait for love and marriage.
It seems that many years ago, God asked Cheryl to surrender the pen she was using to write her love story. All He wanted was carte blanche. No problem, right? Cheryl tentatively conceded--that is, until it became apparent that the Almighty had no intention of conforming to her
writing schedule, much less the tick of her biological clock. In fact, He blew every deadline she ever attempted to set. As romance seemed to pass Cheryl by, she couldn't help but question: Could God really be trusted to bring her the love of her life?
Written during a long wait, this book opens up Cheryl's painfully honest, personal journals. She explores what it's like to enlist in God's Marriage Boot Camp, and how to survive singlehood year after solitary year. She wrestles with her Creator over multiple best friends that never see her "that way." Then there are those lists of what she wanted--you know, the ones she revised a billion times then laminated for safekeeping. She watches, bewildered, as much younger women find love that seems to elude her.
Through it all, she falls head over heels for a God who proves Himself to be as resistant to her controls as He is faithful beyond her wildest dreams.
Are you still waiting? Have you lost hope? Venture to victory with a woman who knows just how hard it is to wait for the day when you are Finally the Bride.
***
Book Two:
Finally Fearless:
How Overcoming Anxiety Helped Me Find True Love
An Abuse Survivor's Guide to Panic-Free Relationships
Do fear and anxiety rule your life? They used to rule mine.
This is the book I was too afraid to write and definitely too afraid to publish. That would mean others could read some of my most private thoughts, pieces of my most difficult and painful journey. Most of my life, I put on a good face, that "life is perfect" façade. It was a sham. Then I realized I had to face my problems, my past, and my fears if I ever wanted to live a normal, healthy life. In writing this book, I decided to join the imperfect human race. I wrote it because I needed to heal. Maybe you need to heal, too.
Through writing about my story of panic, fear, and seemingly irrational anxieties, I uncovered so much about panic and anxiety disorders, coping techniques, causes of anxiety and fear, soul searching activities to help unearth the root of anxiety problems, and methods that can bring about healing.
After many years of stagnancy, I found hope. God walked me through every step to help me find ways to grow, heal, change, and climb out from under the relentless thumb of anxiety. I can honestly say I am now healed.
Are you tired of fighting against your fears? Has panic interrupted your life? Has anxiety stopped you from going after your dreams? I encourage you to read my story and start your soul-searching journey now so you, too, can venture toward peace.
* * *
Finally Fearless is filled with practical advice, exercises, personal stories, and tangible ways for readers to participate in their healing.
Also available: Finally Fearless Workbook for churches, book clubs, and individuals who'd like a hands-on approach to the exercises of this book.
Key Topics:
Singles, waiting, hope, discouragement, The List, Finding the One, prayer, future husband search, dating, true love, Marriage Boot Camp, God written love story, heartbreaks, surrender, rejection, God's promises, Never the Bride, Power Prayers for your future husband, How to pray for a future husband, anxiety disorders, fear of relationships, fear of men, sexual
Finally the Bride: Finding Hope While Waiting
The Single Woman's Guide to the Wait for a Husband and Marriage
Why Would God Care About My Love Life?
From the woman behind the screenplay and novel, Never the Bride, comes a roller coaster of a love story with God. Cheryl McKay pulls no punches about what it's really like to be single, with your age creeping up, and no end in sight to the wait for love and marriage.
It seems that many years ago, God asked Cheryl to surrender the pen she was using to write her love story. All He wanted was carte blanche. No problem, right? Cheryl tentatively conceded--that is, until it became apparent that the Almighty had no intention of conforming to her
writing schedule, much less the tick of her biological clock. In fact, He blew every deadline she ever attempted to set. As romance seemed to pass Cheryl by, she couldn't help but question: Could God really be trusted to bring her the love of her life?
Written during a long wait, this book opens up Cheryl's painfully honest, personal journals. She explores what it's like to enlist in God's Marriage Boot Camp, and how to survive singlehood year after solitary year. She wrestles with her Creator over multiple best friends that never see her "that way." Then there are those lists of what she wanted--you know, the ones she revised a billion times then laminated for safekeeping. She watches, bewildered, as much younger women find love that seems to elude her.
Through it all, she falls head over heels for a God who proves Himself to be as resistant to her controls as He is faithful beyond her wildest dreams.
Are you still waiting? Have you lost hope? Venture to victory with a woman who knows just how hard it is to wait for the day when you are Finally the Bride.
***
Book Two:
Finally Fearless:
How Overcoming Anxiety Helped Me Find True Love
An Abuse Survivor's Guide to Panic-Free Relationships
Do fear and anxiety rule your life? They used to rule mine.
This is the book I was too afraid to write and definitely too afraid to publish. That would mean others could read some of my most private thoughts, pieces of my most difficult and painful journey. Most of my life, I put on a good face, that "life is perfect" façade. It was a sham. Then I realized I had to face my problems, my past, and my fears if I ever wanted to live a normal, healthy life. In writing this book, I decided to join the imperfect human race. I wrote it because I needed to heal. Maybe you need to heal, too.
Through writing about my story of panic, fear, and seemingly irrational anxieties, I uncovered so much about panic and anxiety disorders, coping techniques, causes of anxiety and fear, soul searching activities to help unearth the root of anxiety problems, and methods that can bring about healing.
After many years of stagnancy, I found hope. God walked me through every step to help me find ways to grow, heal, change, and climb out from under the relentless thumb of anxiety. I can honestly say I am now healed.
Are you tired of fighting against your fears? Has panic interrupted your life? Has anxiety stopped you from going after your dreams? I encourage you to read my story and start your soul-searching journey now so you, too, can venture toward peace.
* * *
Finally Fearless is filled with practical advice, exercises, personal stories, and tangible ways for readers to participate in their healing.
Also available: Finally Fearless Workbook for churches, book clubs, and individuals who'd like a hands-on approach to the exercises of this book.
Key Topics:
Singles, waiting, hope, discouragement, The List, Finding the One, prayer, future husband search, dating, true love, Marriage Boot Camp, God written love story, heartbreaks, surrender, rejection, God's promises, Never the Bride, Power Prayers for your future husband, How to pray for a future husband, anxiety disorders, fear of relationships, fear of men, sexual
504 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 5, 2014
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About the author
Cheryl McKay
28 books28 followersCHERYL MCKAY been professionally writing since 1997. Before creating, showrunning, and executive producing the multi-award-winning Season One of These Stones, Cheryl wrote the screenplay for The Ultimate Gift. She co-wrote the faith-based feature films, Indivisible and Extraordinary, as well as multiple children’s projects, including 5 episodes of Superbook and 40 episodes of the audio drama, The Wild & Wacky Totally True Bible Stories with Frank Peretti. In addition to film and television, Cheryl has enjoyed penning novels like Song of Springhill and the award-winning Never the Bride (with Rene Gutteridge), as well as nonfiction books, including Finally the Bride: Finding Hope While Waiting, Finally Fearless; Journey from Panic to Peace, and a three-part devotional series, 25 Dates With God. She recently published the Study Guide book (with Susan Rohrer) that goes with Season One of These Stones and the first two books in her children’s series, Potter Knows Best. Her desire from the beginning of her writing career has been to make an impact through words and change the world for good through writing.
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