Your Life with Jesus: How to Spark Memories and Write Your Spiritual Memoir: Books for Life Storytellers Series, #2

By J.Q. Rose

The purpose of this Christian-based book, Your Life with Jesus, is to spark memories of your life experiences so you can use them when writing your spiritual memoir. This book guides you in penning your sacred story and invites you to journey into a deeper faith experience.

Sharing your sacred story is not only a gift to your family and others, but also for you, the author of your life story. When viewing your life through the lens of time, you will be aware of God's presence in your world and discover revelations about your life as you create videos or write your life story.

Best-selling author and workshop leader, J.Q. Rose, guides you through the elements of storytelling to keep readers turning pages. She offers clear explanations, examples, and exercises to discover how to write your story.

 

Part One of the book includes information on ways to ignite your memories and tips on writing stories readers will want to read. Part Two suggests forty topics for journaling. Each topic, designed to awaken your life experiences, is accompanied by a verse from the Bible and a writing prompt. Not every topic will resonate with each person. Select the ones that stir you.

 

This book will open your heart to know God is speaking to you as you pray, plan, remember, and compose your stories.

Take the time now to create your spiritual memoir. Download your copy so you can preserve those special memories of Your Life with Jesus. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: J.Q. Rose
• Release date: Nov 7, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223627395

J.Q. Rose

Whether the story is fiction or non-fiction, J.Q. Rose is “focused on the story.”  She offers readers chills, giggles and quirky characters woven within the pages of her mystery books. Using her storytelling skills, she provides entertainment and information in articles featured in magazines, newspapers, and online magazines. J.Q. taught elementary school for several years and never lost the love for teaching passed down from her teacher grandmother and mother. She satisfies that aspect of her character by presenting workshops on Creative Writing and Writing Your Life Story.  When J.Q. is not reading or writing, she enjoys photography, playing Pegs and Jokers board games, and traveling with her husband. They spend winters in Florida and summers up north camping and hunting toads, frogs, and salamanders with her four grandsons and granddaughter.

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YOUR LIFE WITH JESUS

How to Spark Memories and Write Your Spiritual Memoir

Copyright© 2023 J.Q. Rose

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Dedication

Dedicated to Sunday School and Bible Study teachers

who share their love of God

and the message of his lovingkindness

and eternal life for all who follow him.

AUTHOR’S NOTE

Do you remember as a kid being surprised or shocked when the family revealed their stories about the good old days? And oh, what tales they could tell! Those stories were told at every family get-together and became highlights on each occasion. Many of the stories resulted in laughter, heart-warming moments, and embarrassment. Their memories taught us about our roots and enriched the bond among family members.

Now, it’s your turn to record those often-told tales and the accounts of your life so future generations can be inside those moments with you.

You may think you have not lived an extraordinary life, but each person’s life is special and precious to God. You do have an important story to tell!

We look for visions of heaven

and we never dream that all the time,

God is in the commonplace things and people around us.

—Oswald Chambers

Interest in telling my life story ignited when my writer friend shared her great, great, great grandfather’s journal with the members of our writers’ group. I was smitten by the minister’s account when, within the pages, he brought to life the lives of people living in London, England, in the early 1800s. As an eyewitness to history, he shared  the sights, sounds, and emotions from 150 years ago. What a treasure his journal is for his family and all the generations who read his account and to those who came after him.

His story compelled me to write about my life experiences as a legacy for my children and the next generations. In writing a spiritual memoir, I can be a witness to God’s love so my children will know how important my faith is to my life and theirs. Through my sharing, I bring readers the Good News of God’s love, forgiveness, and promise of eternal life.

For twenty years, I’ve had the privilege to present workshops and to speak at events about life storytelling. The life storytelling workshops inspired me to draft a book to encourage everyday people to record their stories, Your Words, Your Life Story: A Journal for Sharing Memories, Book #1 in the Books for Life Storytellers Series. I combined my love of teaching and skills in writing fiction and