Consider the Lilies

Consider the Lilies is a 7X10 softbound, matte cover Scripture study journal that is thoughtfully written and beautifully designed. Every day of this six week study provides Scripture to get you started and notes for further Bible reading. You will find a daily devotion, some thoughts to consider as journal, and a prayer prompt to dovetail with your reading. There are beautifully designed, generous pages for writing and art journaling. Step by step, day by day, these words console and bring clarity to the hard days.Maybe this is a difficult season in your life—you’re overwhelmed by the burdens weighing you down, the crosses the He’s asked you to carry. You look heavenward and all you feel is… abandoned. This study is for you. It is full of the consolations of the Holy Spirit. Here, you will find a guidebook to what God is saying, how He is encouraging you to lament, to pour out your grief and your fears and your anger. This journal acknowledges that in this broken, fallen world we do suffer.Or maybe you’re in a sweet spot. Life is really rather good right now. You’re not feeling any particular strain. This study is for you, too. In it, you find the words you need to console a friend, to empathize with the people around you who are suffering. I promise you, they are suffering. You are daily surrounded by people who bow low under the weight of grief, often without any outward sign of dismay. This study makes you a better friend to woman next to you, to the growing child who aches, to the spouse who despairs. And it buries words into your heart so that they are there, waiting, when the rain begins to fall. Because it will fall.

Elizabeth Foss is a wife, mother of nine, and grandmother. She's happy curled up with a good book or tinkering with a turn of phrase. She's the author of widely acclaimed devotionals By the Manger in the Morning and Put on Love. Her books Real Learning and Small Steps for Catholic Moms (with Danielle Bean) are favorites on women's bookshelves. Elizabeth has been writing and publishing on women's issues for over 25 years and her words of encouragement have reached the hearts of women all over the world. For this volume, Elizabeth was joined by the authors and artists of the Take Up and Read Writer's Collective to give readers a rich tapestry of devotional essays and art.