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As Yourself

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:07:29 GMT

“Love your neighbor as yourself.” —Matthew 22:39

What does it mean to love others “as yourself?”

For spiritual director, therapist, and former pastor Caroline Vogel, loving God and loving others always came easy. What was much harder, as she discovered during a difficult season in her life, was the “as yourself” part. What did Jesus mean when he said to love others as yourself?

In this heartening exploration of learning to love ourselves as God loves us, Vogel invites us to embrace God's deep and abiding love, with our whole being, just as we are, today and every day.

Through spiritual practices, Biblical insights, and personal story, Vogel shows us how to move from striving for God's love to simply receiving it. With a gentle and wise voice, Caroline teaches us how to slow down, steady our minds, open our hearts, and tap into the life-giving flow of God's grace that is already within us — calling us out of our perfectionism, fear, or shame, calling us toward our own belovedness.

Drawing on her own deep relationship with the Holy Spirit, Vogel reveals that when we are truly aligned with the Spirit and follow Her lead — mind, heart, and body — we are being infused by God's grace moment by moment. We are breathing the Spirit and the Spirit is breathing us. We are living embodied grace inside and out.

If you struggle to love yourself as God does, yearn to know God's love more deeply, and wonder what it's like to embody grace in your daily life, this book is for you.

Welcome to the journey of coming home to yourself in God's love, as yourself.

In As Yourself, readers will explore:

Why receiving God's love is as important as giving it away.
How “hustling” for God's love is the opposite of living embodied grace.
How shame is often a barrier to loving ourselves and others.
How grace already lives inside us; we simply need to open to that truth.
Biblical stories that illuminate the theology of “as yourself.”
A dozen spiritual practices to help you embody grace.

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As Yourself

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:28:49 GMT

“Love your neighbor as yourself.”—Matthew 22:39

What does it mean to love others “as yourself?”

In this heartening exploration of learning to love ourselves as God loves us, Vogel invites us to embrace God's deep and abiding love, with our whole being, just as we are, today and every day.

If you struggle to love yourself as God does, yearn to know God's love more deeply, and wonder what it's like to embody grace in your daily life, this book is for you.

Welcome to the journey of coming home to yourself in God's love, as yourself.

In As Yourself, readers will explore:

Why receiving God's love is as important as giving it away.
How “hustling” for God's love is the opposite of living embodied grace.
How shame is often a barrier to loving ourselves and others.
How grace already lives inside us; we simply need to open to that truth.
Biblical stories that illuminate the theology of “as yourself.”
A dozen spiritual practices to help you embody grace.

READ A SAMPLE.

La oración de una viuda

Fri, 10 Jun 2022 19:41:12 GMT

La oración de una viuda

Fri, 10 Jun 2022 19:41:13 GMT

Las crisis de la vida amenazan nuestra estabilidad espiritual.

La pérdida de un ser querido -se espere o no su muerte- es siempre traumática. El trauma de adaptarse a la nueva realidad de viuda mientras se enfrenta a una multitud de preguntas y decisiones urgentes puede ser abrumador.

En este libro de 60 meditaciones, Nell Noonan comparte con franqueza sus experiencias en los 26 meses posteriores a la muerte de su marido.

Describe su recorrido en el duelo como una jornada repleta de bendiciones y quebrantos. A pesar de los momentos álgidos, logró encontrar a Dios en medio del duelo.

Noonan reconoce que el proceso de duelo de cada persona es único.

«Mis escritos no pretenden decir qué, cómo o cuándo hacer nada», dice Noonan. «Las meditaciones sólo pretenden tomarle de la mano y sentir su dolor para que, con suerte, sea capaz de avanzar lentamente, paso a paso, hacia una vida más plena, menos quebrantada, hacia una vida nueva y llena de paz».

Este libro ayudará a las viudas, tanto si deciden leerlo solas como en grupo. Es un buen recurso para los grupos de apoyo al duelo, y un regalo apropiado para mostrar su preocupación por cualquier mujer que sufra la pérdida de su compañero/a.

La oración de una viuda

Wed, 18 May 2022 20:37:52 GMT

Las crisis de la vida amenazan nuestra estabilidad espiritual.

En este libro de 60 meditaciones, Nell Noonan comparte con franqueza sus experiencias en los 26 meses posteriores a la muerte de su marido.

Describe su recorrido en el duelo como una jornada repleta de bendiciones y quebrantos. A pesar de los momentos álgidos, logró encontrar a Dios en medio del duelo.

Noonan reconoce que el proceso de duelo de cada persona es único.

Beach Calling

Tue, 04 Oct 2022 19:31:53 GMT

Imagine listening to the rhythmic ebb and flow of the tide, feeling the heat and grit of the sand between your toes, and viewing the vast expanse of the sky stretching across the horizon. The wonder of the beach illuminates the magnificence of the Creator.

With Beach Calling you don't have to be at the beach to experience the sea, the sand, the sky, and the glory of the One who created it all. Author Missy Buchanan's brilliant descriptions—intertwined artfully with scripture—paint a vivid picture that invites you to a closer, more authentic walk with God.

Allow the holy words of scripture and the vibrant text to lead you to contemplate where you are now in your life, what brought you here through your yesterdays, and what God has in store for you in your tomorrows.

For more information on the book, including a video about the book, visit this page.

Also available in a bundle with a tote bag and a pen.

Beach Calling

Tue, 04 Oct 2022 19:31:53 GMT

For more information on the book, including a video about the book, visit this page.

Beach Calling

Sat, 14 May 2022 01:45:32 GMT

For more information on the book, including a video about the book, visit this page.

This Life That Is Ours

Sat, 14 May 2022 01:43:43 GMT

This Life That Is Ours offers 40 gentle meditations with guidance for reflection on the spiritual journey of motherhood. These practical, soul-affirming meditations nurture a mother's heart and spiritual life in a season fraught with overwhelm, exhaustion, and loss of identity. Through the lens of Burdette's real-life stories, the reader is invited to ponder her experience and to contemplate where God might be present.

This book is divided into three sections. Reflections in the first section, "Becoming a Mother," explore the dynamics of being a new mother and the whirlwind experience of those early months and years. The second section, "Becoming Yourself," considers what it means to return home to yourself—to begin to find your identity again, both within the realm of motherhood and outside of it. The third section, "Becoming Holy," names the holy paradoxes of motherhood—the ways it can be both extraordinary and mundane, both gift and sacrifice—ultimately deepening one's experience of the holiness of motherhood.

This Life That Is Ours includes an introduction, a preparatory guide for the reflective journey, a closing spiritual practice, and a conclusion. This book can be used in communities of mom groups, intergenerational groups of women, or spouse groups and would make a great gift for new mothers and mothers-to-be.

This Life That Is Ours

Sat, 14 May 2022 01:43:54 GMT

This Life That Is Ours

Thu, 05 May 2022 20:39:24 GMT

This Is My Body

Thu, 05 May 2022 20:34:53 GMT

Kneeling at the Communion rail, Hannah Shanks trembled as she received the bread and cup. Hours before, she had discovered she was pregnant. She heard the familiar words—"The body of Christ, broken for you; The blood of Christ, shed for you" as if for the first time. She remembered Jesus' words: "This is my body." Shanks realized that these words not only describe Jesus' death but also apply to every birth that has taken place. Suddenly, she felt a closer connection to God.

This Is My Body is organized around the framework of Communion, a central act of the Christian faith. Part personal narrative and part reflection on scripture from a woman's point of view, this book is about finding a new relationship to the acts of Christian community through the experiences of a woman's body, including pregnancy and childbirth.

Though the book centers on women's experiences, it offers an opportunity for women and men to consider how they too might be freed in the gospel proclamation, "This is my body; This is my blood." The author approaches motherhood with an understanding of its sacred nature and its profound ability to change her identity. She battles church stereotypes attached to mothering and emerges with a deeper understanding of herself and her relationship to the Holy.

This Is My Body

Sat, 14 May 2022 03:17:09 GMT

This Is My Body

Sat, 14 May 2022 03:17:22 GMT

When You Come Unglued... Stick Close to God

Sat, 14 May 2022 02:28:06 GMT

Even when your life and faith seem broken, God loves you and wants you to enjoy a life abundant in blessings, freedom, and opportunity.

Motivational speaker, spiritual guide, and mentor to women, Patricia Wilson offers a wise and lighthearted take on the serious business of maturing in faith. Her deliciously candid descriptions of contemporary life reveal the ways we lose touch with God. Then she shows us how to reconnect and stick close.

"Sticking close to God is not as easy as I thought it would be," Wilson writes. "Not because God moved on to someone less difficult and demanding, but because I keep forgetting that my walk with God requires a conscious, daily decision. That's what this book is all about: how to stick close to God, even on those days and through those times when life comes unglued!"

If you allow it, God can begin to work in you wherever you are.

When You Come Unglued... Stick Close to God

Tue, 24 May 2022 16:00:55 GMT

Even when your life and faith seem broken, God loves you and wants you to enjoy a life abundant in blessings, freedom, and opportunity.

If you allow it, God can begin to work in you wherever you are.

Woman Overboard

Tue, 24 May 2022 16:01:35 GMT

Do you long for more passion in your life? How do you define passion?

Many people associate passion with intense romance, adventure, creativity, vocation, or calling. If you ask a pastor or priest to define passion, he or she would likely link the word to the passion of Christ, to the events of Holy Week.

The definition of passion has evolved over the years. Originally the word came from the Latin passio, which means "to suffer."

Woman Overboard invites you to join an adventure of discovering

how to find out what you were born for
how to live out your particular calling in the context of your Christian faith
how to make sense of a broken world in light of the passion of Christ

The passionate life isn't easy, Kadlecek says. Suffering can come when we pursue our passions. We have to take risks; we must jump overboard. We need to recognize that jumping overboard could be hard, scary, and dangerous. But consider how dangerous it would be to just stay where you are.

When we anchor our identity in the passion of Christ, we are free to jump overboard. We are free to take the risks we've always wanted to take, to pursue the things we've always wanted to pursue.

So what are you waiting for? Dive into the journey of waking up to the passion and gifts around you!

Espacios de calma

Sat, 14 May 2022 01:28:10 GMT

La relación íntima con Dios que has anhelado está a tu alcance, a pesar del caos de hacer malabares con múltiples responsabilidades, tiempos límites y de las diferentes labores de tu vida estirada hasta el máximo. Con Espacios de calma puedes aprender a calmar tu mente y a escuchar la voz apacible y tranquila de Dios en medio de la turbulencia a tu alrededor.

La escritora y conferencista profesional Patricia Wilson sabe lo que es luchar para encontrar algunos minutos para ella misma. A través de Espacios de calma nos muestra cómo incluso unos cuantos minutos extraviados pueden convertirse en una oportunidad de bendición para un encuentro enfocado en Dios.

Cada intervalo breve de oración que aparece en este libro tiene cinco partes:

Cálmate: un pasaje de los Salmos para aquietar la mente.
Céntrate: un ejercicio para centrarse en Dios.
Ora: una oración para una ocasión o situación particular.
Escucha: un pasaje de los Evangelios con las palabras de Jesús.
Retorna: una práctica para conservar tu experiencia de oración.

¿Esperas una llamada telefónica? ¿Esperas por una cita? ¿Estas detenida en el tráfico? ¡Los espacios de calma están a tu alrededor! Captura esas pausas de cinco minutos y úsalas para tocar la mano de Dios.

Tú puedes encontrar tiempo para orar y conectarte con Dios, permite que este valioso libro devocional te ayude a descubrir cómo hacerlo.

Espacios de calma

Sat, 14 May 2022 01:28:22 GMT

Cada intervalo breve de oración que aparece en este libro tiene cinco partes:

Cálmate: un pasaje de los Salmos para aquietar la mente.
Céntrate: un ejercicio para centrarse en Dios.
Ora: una oración para una ocasión o situación particular.
Escucha: un pasaje de los Evangelios con las palabras de Jesús.
Retorna: una práctica para conservar tu experiencia de oración.

Tú puedes encontrar tiempo para orar y conectarte con Dios, permite que este valioso libro devocional te ayude a descubrir cómo hacerlo.

Espacios de calma

Fri, 13 May 2022 23:18:04 GMT

Cada intervalo breve de oración que aparece en este libro tiene cinco partes:

Cálmate: un pasaje de los Salmos para aquietar la mente.
Céntrate: un ejercicio para centrarse en Dios.
Ora: una oración para una ocasión o situación particular.
Escucha: un pasaje de los Evangelios con las palabras de Jesús.
Retorna: una práctica para conservar tu experiencia de oración.

Tú puedes encontrar tiempo para orar y conectarte con Dios, permite que este valioso libro devocional te ayude a descubrir cómo hacerlo.