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Come Shine Your Light With Us!

April 17, 2018 Christianne Squires
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A few weeks ago, something remarkable happened.

I spent time thinking about each person enrolled in the Bookwifery courses I'm running right now and the projects they're stewarding. I was curious to find any common threads that could further teach me who Bookwifery best serves.

(As the owner of a small business, this is a question I'm often asking myself!)

Here is what I noticed. Each person in my courses right now is working on a book that seeks to heal or mend the world in some way. 
 

  • One person is writing about the duality of light and dark in the experience of cancer.
     
  • Another person is working on a book about how to be a friend to yourself and to God.
     
  • Someone else is writing about restorative living and how to build bridges of healing between those who experience harm and those who cause it.
     
  • Another person is writing about how to move from the highway of busyness to the footpath of a slower pace. 
     
  • Someone else is teaching what it means to listen for the kingdom of God in another person.
     
  • Another person is writing about the recovery of memories that have been lost through trauma. 


. . . and this is just a sampling. 

In one concentrated moment as I reviewed each person and project, I was hit with a blaze of so much light. I saw each of them stewarding a light that is only theirs to carry and how they are creating ways to bring that light to those who need it. 

And I thought, The world needs more of this. 

Doesn't it?

I mean, what if we were each aware of the light we uniquely bear in this world and intentionally brought it to the world around us? How might the world change?

We could set the world ablaze with so much light. 

I don't know about you, but I sure need a world that is more like that. 

 

A Clarified Mission

 

Since that first realization a few weeks ago, I've started talking more about this.

It started on Instagram, in a post where I asked people to share their experiences of their light.

It was an amazing conversation that then led to follow-up questions about how they came to know the light they carry, what "delivery systems" they utilize to carry that light to others, and the realization that we are the delivery system. 

All of which is to say, first of all, I would love for you to join me over on Instagram for these kinds of ongoing conversations. It's my favorite place to hang out online, and I try to post thoughtful, encouraging posts daily. (If you follow me over there, be sure to say hello so I can follow you back!) 

But the second thing I want to say is that all of this—noticing the common thread among those who take my courses and the beautiful conversations that have happened as a result on Instagram—has clarified what I'm doing here at Bookwifery.

I'm able to name the higher mission of Bookwifery as this: to birth books that help heal the world with light. 

 

Is This You?

 

I would be so curious to hear how this language of bearing light in the world lands for you. Does it feel connected to what you're about, who you understand yourself to be, how you live your life, or how you want to live your life if you're not doing so now? 

I'm also curious whether you would be interested in exploring how you might share that light in some intentional ways. 

One of those ways might be a book. And if you're curious about that, I'd like to invite you to attend a free online discernment workshop I'm offering this Friday, April 20, at 1PM Eastern.

This free workshop is for people who believe they bear light in big or small ways and want to explore whether a book is one of the ways they are meant share that light with others who need it. 

I'd love for you to join us!

Register for this Friday's free workshop here.

Much love to you,
Christianne

In Your Voice
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Welcome to Bookwifery!

I'm Christianne, and I help birth books that heal the world with light. If you bear light in some small or big way, I'm so glad you're here.

Learn more about what I do at Bookwifery here. 

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Lately I've taken to using pencils and erasers. For someone who has used only two types of pens for as long as she can remember—and even wrote a poem about one of them once!—this has been quite a development. • But I love the grace inherently offered through a pencil. How it doesn't assume permanence. How it lets you change your mind. How it makes provision for mistakes. How it lets you try things out, try them on for size, see how they feel, decide whether the fit is right for you. • This, I want you to know, is just the kind of life we live, we lightbearers who are finding our ways of sharing our light in this world. • Here is how I see it—and you. • You are someone who has committed to this kind of life, to bringing your light to bear in this world. Maybe you've even picked up your pencil and pulled out your planner, notebook, or calendar. You might have some idea which way you will go with this work, so you start writing down goals, creating some plans, marking down the to-do lists. • But then, guess what. You get to change your mind. You get to realize a particular goal or approach doesn't work for you like you thought it would. You get to pause, reassess, change course. • I have been here many times myself. And here is what I can tell you. • There is grace here in this work of carving out a life, of stewarding your light, of directing its shining brilliance. There is so much grace. • As a reminder, the May cohort that guides you through the process of birthing your book, your voice, and your audience is open for enrollment this week. If you're holding that pencil in hand or are now ready to pick it up, this path may be just right for you. Link is in profile at @christianne_bookwifery to learn more and join us. 🌟
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Lately I've taken to using pencils and erasers. For someone who has used only two types of pens for as long as she can remember—and even wrote a poem about one of them once!—this has been quite a development. • But I love the grace inherently offered through a pencil. How it doesn't assume permanence. How it lets you change your mind. How it makes provision for mistakes. How it lets you try things out, try them on for size, see how they feel, decide whether the fit is right for you. • This, I want you to know, is just the kind of life we live, we lightbearers who are finding our ways of sharing our light in this world. • Here is how I see it—and you. • You are someone who has committed to this kind of life, to bringing your light to bear in this world. Maybe you've even picked up your pencil and pulled out your planner, notebook, or calendar. You might have some idea which way you will go with this work, so you start writing down goals, creating some plans, marking down the to-do lists. • But then, guess what. You get to change your mind. You get to realize a particular goal or approach doesn't work for you like you thought it would. You get to pause, reassess, change course. • I have been here many times myself. And here is what I can tell you. • There is grace here in this work of carving out a life, of stewarding your light, of directing its shining brilliance. There is so much grace. • As a reminder, the May cohort that guides you through the process of birthing your book, your voice, and your audience is open for enrollment this week. If you're holding that pencil in hand or are now ready to pick it up, this path may be just right for you. Link is in profile at @christianne_bookwifery to learn more and join us. 🌟
What do you think our friend Albert meant by this idea: imagination is more powerful than knowledge? • As someone who primarily teaches for a living now (and therefore deeply values the power of knowledge in people's lives), I've had to revisit this quote many times before sharing this photo. (Case in point: I've had it in my camera roll since early February.) • But with my recent naming of the mission of Bookwifery—to birth books that heal the world with light—I think the intention of the idea is now clicking for me. • Here's what I think it means. • The ideas we have of what is possible are more powerful than the knowledge we might need to realize them. • For example, I have no idea where this mission for Bookwifery will lead. Visions dance in my head, and sometimes the enormity of them scares me. But I also know the "how" is work-out-able. I'll figure out what's needed when the time is right. But the mission and vision come first, and they fully fuel my days now. • And so I turn this same question to you. Have you let yourself imagine what is possible for your light in this world? Do you let the dreams begin? And can you trust that the knowledge of the "how" will come when that knowledge is needed? • On this note of possibility, I'm happy to announce that enrollment is open for the May cohort of Bookwifery authors ready to start walking the path of book pregnancy. Our first two enrollees came through last night (hooray!), and enrollment will be open just about a week. View the link in profile at @christianne_bookwifery to see if this is the right next step for you in the intentional shaping and sharing of your light. 🌟
I never planned to be an entrepreneur. Growing up, I colored inside the lines. Completed my homework on time and right away. Felt I'd never have an original idea of my own, ever. Needed clear prompts from the teacher for art day and free-writing time. • And here I am today, carving my own path. Creating courses out of my own head. Developing my own lexicon for teaching what I know. Setting my own schedule and goals and values and priorities. Moving forward with a mission that fuels my days with purpose and a willingness to be audacious. • How did that happen? • It would take a long time to articulate the answer to that question, but pared down to its essence, I would say it happened as I noticed and responded to the invitations of each season of my life. • Some of those seasons invited healing. Others invited risk. Some invited maintenance or quietness. Others asked for leadership. • What is the invitation in your life right now? How is it inviting you someplace new? What do you need in order to do it? • PS: The free online workshop I've been talking about all week is happening TODAY at 1PM Eastern! We have about 50 folks signed up to do some discernment work together, and you can still join us too. Sign up at the link in my profile at @christianne_bookwifery to discern whether you're being invited in this season to share your light in more intentional ways, up to and including a book. Would love for you to join us! 🌟
She sits inside her own space, and it inspires me so much. This is something I don't always remember to do, but she is someone God uses to help me remember and come back to my own sacred ground. • All we are meant to do is inhabit our own space in this world. No more, but also no less. (I struggle with the no less part. I'm quite practiced at making myself real small, shrinking back from the space that is mine to inhabit because I think I'm less worthy than other people.) • That space is sacred ground, and it wholly belongs to us, no one else. • How are you inhabiting your life's space today? What would help you live into it more fully? • PS: There's still time to join me for a free online workshop this Friday at 1PM Eastern. As a group, we'll do some gentle discernment work around whether you're meant to birth a book that brings your light to more people who need it. Register to join us at the link in profile at @christianne_bookwifery. 🌟

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