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    A Pearl of Great Value: Women in Search of a Purposeful Life
    A Pearl of Great Value: Women in Search of a Purposeful Life
    A Pearl of Great Value: Women in Search of a Purposeful Life
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    A Pearl of Great Value: Women in Search of a Purposeful Life

    By Linda M. Holub

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    Are you longing for more in your life but dont know where to begin? Do you question your value? A Pearl Of Great Value Women In Search Of A Purposeful Life gives you the opportunity to explore your values, strengths and passions. Learn how you can take specific action to improve the level of satisfaction in your life. The exercises provide an opportunity to peel back the layers of your life to discover your life purpose that was planted in your DNA at your creation by God.

    Learn how you can take control of the negative self-talk that defeats your ambitions before you get started.
    Create a perennial garden by weeding out worry, negative self-talk, fear and plant positive thoughts, kindness, and helping others.
    Live empowered by the Holy Spirit to live your God-given life purpose.
    Overcome self-sabotaging behavior.
    Explore how to live authentically!

    Join me in your journey to a purposeful life! God has ordained a purpose for your life and wants to help you get there! The life God has ordained in not one of mediocrity. Our Sovereign Lord cares about the details of your life and pauses to meet your needs. If you have been living a directionless life, it can change if you decide to take this journey. You will never be the same person again! Invite your friends to join you on this journey to enable you to encourage one another on your path.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateJun 3, 2011
    ISBN9781449715359
    A Pearl of Great Value: Women in Search of a Purposeful Life
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    Linda M. Holub

    As a certified Life Coach Professional by the American Association of Christian Counselors. I have witnessed firsthand people going from doubting their worth to discovering their life purpose. That is exciting and powerful! My husband, David, and I have been married for 41 years. Weve raised four children in Sioux City, Iowa.

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      A Pearl of Great Value - Linda M. Holub

      Copyright © 2011 Linda M. Holub

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      Scriptures taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide.

      To contact Linda Holub you can email at lholub@cableone.net or through her website at www.lifecoachingforsuccess.net

      WestBow Press books may be ordered through booksellers or by contacting:

      WestBow Press

      A Division of Thomas Nelson

      1663 Liberty Drive

      Bloomington, IN 47403

      www.westbowpress.com

      1-(866) 928-1240

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-1534-2 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-1536-6 (dj)

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-1535-9 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2011926314

      Printed in the United States of America

      WestBow Press rev. date: 5/19/2011

      Table of Contents

      Preface

      Acknowledgments

      Prologue

      Beginning the Journey

      My Life Today

      Examining Your Level of Satisfaction in Your Life

      Clarifying Your Values

      Strengths and Passions

      Develop a Life Purpose or Mission Statement

      Overcoming Obstacles

      Goals and Building a Roadmap

      Additional Resources

      Notes

      Preface

      God has impressed upon my heart that there is a need to encourage women to see themselves through God’s eyes. A quote from St. Augustine emphasizes the high value God places on his relationship with you, God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. Coming from a family of five children, God’s personal care for me is invaluable to my feeling of significance. I have been inspired by the Holy Spirit to help women acquire their value from God’s view of them. When I taught the principles in this book to a community college class, I was amazed by their personal growth through simply showing the women I believed in them and their abilities to fulfill their God-given life purpose.

      The true strength to live a God-given purposeful life lies in our belief in what God says in His word about God’s redeemed people. Who are the redeemed? In Ephesians 1:7-8, the Apostle Paul tells us, In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. Redemption means you have been bought with the blood of Jesus Christ from the penalty for sin which is death and reconciled you to God. On our own power, we fail, lose steam and revert to our own human understanding of our capacity to accomplish the work God has ordained for us. On our own we fall short of what God envisions for our lives.

      We all continuously need an infusion of encouragement to grab hold of a God-sized belief that we were made to have a significant impact in our world for God’s glory. Is that true of you?

      God has allowed me the privilege of seeing the growth in these women. I count it pure joy and a blessing, and I look forward to hearing how God will speak to your heart as you begin to peel back the layers of your own life.

      Acknowledgments

      First, I give God the glory, Soli Deo Gloria, for what He has enabled me to write. Without God feeding me the words, this manuscript would not have been completed. I recognize my husband for his support of my journey to live my God-given life purpose. Without his support, I would be in a far different place today. I dedicate this book to my four children, Chris, Trisha, Bria and Jaime and my son-in-law, Kevin. I pray they will discover and live their God-given life purpose that satisfies the soul like no other.

      I thank my friends who have given me unbelievable encouragement to pursue sharing these principles and assured me it would add value to others. Cheri Maben-Crouch, PhD., a fellow life purpose coach, has been an amazing encourager, without whom I would not have gone forward with this project. I give due recognition to Brent Hoffman who has been truly helpful because of his amazing editing skills.

      In addition, I want to express my appreciation to Ta’Mara Hanscom for opening up options for publishing. She has written and published her own series of Christian novels. Sharing her experience with me shortened my learning curve.

      Finally, I thank my mother, who has proven in her life that life experiences are more valuable than formal education. She also showed me that age need not be a factor when you launch a new career or accept a new challenge, regardless of the prevailing societal wisdom. We could also learn this from whom Jesus chose as His disciples, an uneducated group of men He equipped through the Holy Spirit to change the world forever.

      Prologue

      In autumn 2007, Sarah was at her wits end. Her husband was in the prime of his business life, busy with exciting opportunities coming his way every day, it seemed. Sarah’s children had finished college and were involved in their own lives. To say she was suffering from empty-nest syndrome would be to underestimate the pit of loneliness in which she found herself.

      Sarah thought she was too old to return to school, even though she was always a good student. She believed she had to weigh the financial investment with the financial return she would receive by starting a new career. Can I justify going back to school? she thought.

      Her husband questioned the viability of it as well. His questioning created even more doubt in Sarah’s mind as to whether she was worth the investment. She remembered enjoying writing in college, but she wondered, Who really cares what I think anyway? What do I have to offer other people?

      Sarah was stuck

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