30 Days: A Devotional Memoir

By D. M. Webb

Do you desire to no longer be alone? Do you yearn for understanding and hope? Do you wish for a closer walk with Jesus? When a relationship ends, whether through divorce or death, it leaves us with heartache and sadness. Fear of loneliness overwhelms our soul. Anger at God consumes us. We are suddenly thrust into unknown territory, lost and bewildered. Psalm 147:3 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. 30 Days: A Devotional Memoir brings you deeply moving stories to strengthen your walk and bring you closer to Christ. Author D. M. Webb shares her three year spiritual journey with a collection of thirty devotions designed to reach out and uplift those who have endured the turbulent emotions that come with divorce, widowhood, and single parenting. Reach out, place your hand in His, and begin your journey today.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ambassador International
• Release date: Oct 25, 2013
• ISBN: 9781620203460

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30 Days

A Devotional Memoir

© 2013 by D.M. Webb

All rights reserved

Printed in the United States of America

ISBN: 978-1-62020-247-0

eISBN: 978-1-62020-346-0

Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture taken from the King James Version of the Holy Bible. Public Domain.

Cover design and typesetting: Matthew Mulder

E-book conversion: Anna Riebe

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DEDICATIONS

First and Foremost, Thank You, Lord, for the words You put into my head and the trials and blessings that have rained down upon me. I lean upon Your continual guidance.

To Nathan: I would have waited a thousand years for you. God has blessed me with your love.

To Caleb and Blake: your love and devotion have been my buoy in the storms.

To Mom: you guided me and molded me into who I am today. I forever cherish your wisdom (and our Scrabble games).

FOREWORD

THE COMPILATION OF THIS BOOK was not an easy thing for me. More or less three years in the making, through personal journals and a personal blog, each story revealed a little more about myself than I really wanted known.

I never wanted to talk about my late husband, my father, the trials I endured or the thoughts of hopelessness, loneliness, failure, and doubt. Truly, I only wanted to show the happy, sparkly times in my life.

As with all good intentions, it only matters when it is God’s intention being done. I sat for so many weeks, staring at my words in my latest novel, wondering why I couldn’t write, why the words wouldn’t come. I knew what I wanted to say, knew what I wanted to create, but nothing happened.

Instead, my journal and blog posts kept distracting me. Books were distracting me. Finally, I sat down and printed out those blogs. I fiddled with a few of them, and then set it aside.

I tried to ignore it. Days passed and still those pages called. More days passed.

I eventually gave up the fight. Once I sat down, I edited, rearranged, and added to the stories until my eyes blurred, and yet I still pushed forward. It had to be done. I felt it in my soul.

Self-doubt and fear of utter failure would beat at me, and still I kept writing and typing. Three days later I beheld my product: three years of a spiritual journey condensed into thirty days—thirty days of stories that bared my heart and soul, my shortcomings and dreams.

It isn’t that I wanted to reveal myself to others; but if what I spoke about could help others deal with similar issues, then I had tell my stories. I hope it will encourage others. I hope it will help others. Most of all, I hope it brings glory to God’s name.

Title Page

Copyright

Dedications

Foreword

Day One: Live by Faith

Day Two: Disasters

Day Three: Isaiah and Daniel

Day Four: I Don’t Love You Enough

Day Five: Peace, Be Still

Day Six: Putting It All into Perspective

Day Seven: The Passion of the Christ

Day Eight: Discovery

Day Nine: Bing and Bam

Day Ten: Fear and Dreams

Day Eleven: A Flip-Flop Life

Day Twelve: Everything Has Its Time

Day Thirteen: Tread Carefully on My Dreams

Day Fourteen: Have or Have Not

Day Fifteen: Glory in the Highest

Day Sixteen: Sacrifice

Day Seventeen: Follow Me

Day Eighteen: Passages of Time

Day Nineteen: Full Coat of Armor

Day Twenty: Gambling with God

Day Twenty-One: No Such Thing as The End

Day Twenty-Two: Temptations of a Woman

Day Twenty-Three: No Valentine

Day Twenty-Four: Rain of Blessings

Day Twenty-Five: With Me Always

Day Twenty-Six: War of the Words

Day Twenty-Seven: Christ or the World

Day Twenty-Eight: Decluttering

Day Twenty-Nine: One Mama’s Story

Day Thirty: In Memory of Puddin

Afterword

Bibliography

Contact Information

LIVE BY FAITH

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find;

knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

Matthew 7:7

AS I WALK IN FELLOWSHIP with the Lord, He is so wonderful and does such wonderful things that at times I cannot and do not understand what He is doing. And I ask, Why?

My husband died eight years ago. He was a firefighter; as he responded to a house fire, his tanker truck rolled over, killing him instantly. I was numb