Walking with Purpose: Seven Priorities That Make Life Work

Does your life feel out of control? Do you feel that you are doing so many things that you are doing none of them well?

Lisa Brenninkmeyer understands how it feels when life is stuck on the spin cycle. As a mother of seven, she knows we don't just need to be told what kind of women we should be. We need some help getting there.

Drawing from her own experience of balancing marriage, motherhood, and work inside and outside the home, Lisa helps you uncover the key to living a busy life with inner calm. What's the secret? Identifying key priorities, and doing first what matters most.

With humor and wisdom, Lisa will help you:

Stop striving and rest in God s unconditional love.

Experience new hope in your marriage.

Reach your child's heart.

Create clarity in a cluttered home.

Find friendships that go below the surface and satisfy.

Discover your passion and purpose.

Once in awhile, things may seem as if they're under control, but we want to walk with purpose regardless of our circumstances. God wants us to daily experience the joy and contentment that comes from knowing we have given our all to what he considers most important. The abundant and purposeful life we were created to live is just around the corner.

Lisa Breninkmeyer is an author and speaker who helps women experience the transforming power of God's unconditional love. Desiring to see women come to know Christ personally, she founded Walking with Purpose, a Catholic Women's Bible study program. After hearing story after story of women longing for connection, looking for a safe place to ask questions about faith, and needing a way to refuel and be refreshed, she decided to do something to bring change. The result of her holy discontent, Walking with Purpose, is a Scripture-based program that is fresh, relevant, and focused on conversion of heart. Lisa is crazy about women, loves Christ passionately, and thinks the most exciting thing in the world is to connect the former with the latter.

Lisa's love for Scripture and its Author began as a child. Raised as an evangelical Protestant in Minnesota, she and her sister grew up watching their parents teach weekly Bible Study. She entered the Catholic Church in 1991 because her Catholic boyfriend was quite irresistible. They married and spent the next ten years living in Germany and Mexico, growing their family along the way. As Lisa developed curricula and led Bible studies for women and children, she began to dig deeper into the rich teachings of the Catholic Church. The spirituality of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, the patience of her spiritual director with her countless questions, and the writings of other converts have all influenced her greatly, bringing her to a place of joy and contentment within the Church.

Lisa holds a B.A. in psychology from St. Olaf College. She lives with her husband Leo and their seven children in Annapolis, Maryland. Even if she manages to get everyone to smile for the annual Christmas card photo, be assured, there's often sticky juice residue on the kitchen floor and an empty toilet roll in the bathroom.