Summer is ALMOST HERE!

There’s something especially sweet about summer mornings with the Lord. The slower pace. The sunlight pouring through my window. Coffee beside my open Bible. And the quiet stillness before the day begins. There’s just nothing like it!

Some of my favorite moments with God have happened in the most ordinary places – at my kitchen table, on my porch, in my rocking chair, on the beach with my Bible on my lap, or a late night when the house is FINALLY still.

That’s the heart behind
SUMMER IN THE PSALMS

Beginning June 1st, I want to invite you to spend 30 days in the book of Psalms with me slowing down and taking Psalms just one verse, one devotional and one word search at a time.

Summer has a way of filling up quickly. But before the schedules get busy and the days slip by, I want to invite you to intentionally make room for time with God. Not out of duty but out of delight!

Why Word Searches?

1. They are a fun way to get into the Word!
2. They slow us down and help our minds to focus on each word of the verse.
3. They are a tool to help us remember what we just read through the repetition of searching for each word.
4. They are a great “off-line” activity for our minds (cognitive health) and soul (releasing stress and anxiety).
5. It’s just another tool to help us meditate on God’s Word – just like using the SOAK Method or the Bible Coloring Method.

Each puzzle is built around a single verse from the book of Psalms.

I’ve handpicked peaceful, worshipful, strengthening and meaningful verses to guide your focus through the summer months. Every word you search is directly tied to that verse.

Each devotional and puzzle will take around 10–15 minutes a day.

  Mark Your Calendar!
Begins Monday, June 1st

We’ll begin Volume 1 on June 1st, and I will be showing up daily on the Good Morning Girls Facebook page at 7amEST to share the verse of the day and discuss the devotional.

Let’s Do This Together

You can invite a friend to join you or If you’d like accountability or simply want to know you’re not doing this alone – I would love for you to join our AMAZING GMG Community on Facebook! There’s something really special about knowing other women are opening their Bibles alongside you each morning.

Consider This As Your Personal Invitation

Whether you’re sitting on your porch in the quiet morning , at the beach with your toes in the sand , or winding down at night after a long day …this is for you!

Keep walking with the King,
Courtney

Here’s to a peaceful, purposeful summer in the Psalms!

Grab your copies today!
Available exclusively on Amazon.

Find the PRINTABLE/Digital Versions
on Sale over on my
ETSY SHOP HERE!

Summer in the Psalms is a 3-Part Series

I’ve created Three Volumes, each with 30 Devotionals and Word Search Puzzles. That means you’ll have 90 devotionals and puzzles total, covering dozens of Psalms over the summer.

Volume 1: Psalms of Praise, Creation, God’s Majesty, Rest & Peace
Volume 2: Psalms of Salvation, God’s Care and Protection, & Meditation
Volume 3: Psalms of Dependence, Strength, & Worship

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This June, I want to invite you to join me for 30 Days in the book of Psalms!

It’s called
Summer in the Psalms!

This series is designed to refresh your heart and help you slow down in God’s Word throughout the summer.

Each page includes:

– A Verse of the Day from Psalms
– A Devotional based on that Psalm
– A Reflection Question and space to reflect
– A Large Lettered simple Word Search
A list of 10 words from the Verse of the Day to find in the Word Search

HERE’S A LOOK INSIDE

Why Word Searches?

1. They are a fun way to get into the Word!
2. They slow us down and help our minds to focus on each word of the verse.
3. They are a tool to help us remember what we just read through the repetition of searching for each word.
4. They are a great “off-line” activity for our minds (cognitive health) and soul (releasing stress and anxiety).
5. It’s just another tool to help us meditate on God’s Word – just like using the SOAK Method or the Bible Coloring Method.

Each puzzle is built around a single verse from the book of Psalms.

I’ve handpicked peaceful, worshipful, strengthening and meaningful verses to guide your focus through the summer months. Every word you search is directly tied to that verse.

Each devotional and puzzle will take around 10–15 minutes a day.

Summer in the Psalms is a 3-Part Series

I’ve created Three Volumes, each with 30 Devotionals and Word Search Puzzles. That means you’ll have 90 devotionals and puzzles total, covering dozens of Psalms over the summer.

Volume 1: Psalms of Praise, Creation, God’s Majesty, Rest & Peace
Volume 2: Psalms of Salvation, God’s Care and Protection, & Meditation
Volume 3: Psalms of Dependence, Strength, & Worship

Let’s Do This Together

We’ll begin Volume 1 on June 1st, and while I won’t be creating teaching videos for this study, I will be showing up daily on the Good Morning Girls Facebook page to share the verse of the day and discuss the devotional.

You can invite a friend to join you or If you’d like accountability – or simply want to know you’re not doing this alone – I would love for you to join our AMAZING GMG Community on Facebook! There’s something really special about knowing other women are opening their Bibles alongside you each morning.

You may be wondering…what about the other two volumes? Will we continue into July and August together?

I’m thinking and praying about that. If there’s strong interest and many of you are enjoying our time together, we can absolutely continue into July with Volume 2 together. I’ll be watching and listening throughout June, and we’ll decide together as we go. Either way – you can do this with us or on your own. So for now, let’s begin with these 30 days and see what the Lord does.

  Mark Your Calendar!
Begins Monday, June 1st

This is Your Summer Invitation

Whether you’re sitting on your porch in the quiet morning , at the beach with your toes in the sand , or winding down at night after a long day …this is for you!

Let’s slow down this summer and make space for the Lord and His Word. I’d love for you to join us. .

Are you in?

Keep walking with the King,
Courtney

Grab your copies today!
Available exclusively on Amazon.

Find the PRINTABLE/Digital Versions
on Sale over on my
ETSY SHOP HERE!

Here’s to a peaceful, purposeful summer in the Psalms!

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I saw this quote on instagram the other day: “You don’t need a perfect life to live a beautiful one with God. ” And it’s absolutely true!

Because if I’m honest… life right now is not what I would have written. Not what I would have chosen. And yet – God is here.

It has now been 10 months since my husband Keith was diagnosed with blood cancer called Multiple Myeloma. When it first began, everything felt heavy, uncertain and I was emotional. I feared the worst and mentally started preparing myself for the worst.

His disease burden was high, his kidneys shut down, and he was hospitalized multiple times for a total of 14 days (3 different times), along with an ambulance trip and multiple visits to the ER in those first few months.

It was scary.

The following months, we went from being in a state of shock to accepting our new reality of treatments (4 days a week) and around the clock medications (pills first thing in the morning, before every meal, and before bedtime), a calendar filled with doctor appointments and medical bills non-stop in the mail. It has been a massive adjustment BUT now here we are (Praise the Lord ) …10 months later – it’s spring and Keith is still fighting.

Keith still has cancer but the cancer burden is dramatically lower now. The treatment is working very well but he is still in treatment – three weeks on, one week off – and continues kidney dialysis three days a week for about 4 hours each time and the pills continue (I carry them in my purse now everywhere we go).

Our lives have drastically changed. Every Monday he has multiple blood tests and so we move from test to test. There are days when the weight of it all feels really hard – for him, for me and for the children.

And yet… we have experienced God’s grace. In January, Keith was able to return to work part-time (16 hours a week). That sense of normalcy has been such a gift.

Keith has had several complications and minor surgeries over the past few months – December, January, and February BUT Keith has walked through them like a champ! His chin is up, his faith is strong and he keeps pressing on. Honestly, if you bumped into him at the grocery store today, you would not know from his big smile and hearty hello that he is daily fighting this battle.

Right now, we are waiting.

Waiting for remission.
Waiting for healing.
Waiting for the next step toward a kidney transplant.

He is scheduled to continue chemotherapy and immunotherapy through August, so treatment will carry him through the summer. We had hoped he would be in remission by now, so that part has been discouraging at times. But God is faithful and we keep moving forward…one day at a time.

We had a wonderful Easter together (pictured below) and are thoroughly enjoying the gift of a grandson and all of his firsts – his first Thanksgiving, first Christmas, first Easter – his first time to roll over, first tooth and now he is starting to crawl! He is such a blessing!

We have a family beach vacation planned for June that we are all looking forward to but… even that looks different now. We’re currently lining up a dialysis center near where we’ll be staying so Keith can continue treatment while we’re there. He’ll have to go four times during our vacation.

It’s not ideal.

This is not the life we imagined. But it is the life God has given us in this season.
And I’m learning… it can still be beautiful.

Because God IS WITH US IN IT.

It’s messy. Uncertain. Sometimes exhausting. But I am bound and determined to live well with the Lord’s help.

As I write this update, Psalm 28:7 comes to mind:

“The Lord is my strength and my shield;
my heart trusts in Him, and He helps me.”

Not – He might help me.
Not – He used to help me.

He. Helps. Me.

Right here. In the middle of the pills, appointments, the waiting, the unknowns, the disappointments. He is WITH us .

I don’t know what you are going through today but whatever your life looks like, know this:

God is with you.
God will help you.
God is faithful.
And that is simply beautiful!

Thank you SO much to everyone who has reached out with words of encouragement and prayers. They mean so much!

Keep Walking with the King,

Courtney

Many of you have asked out on social media:
WHAT’S NEXT AT WLW?

***I wanted to share my husband’s health update before jumping into our summer plans so that it made sense as to why things have been a little different here at Women Living Well.

If you are looking for encouragement from me in this season, you can find me regularly out on my Instagram and Facebook pages.

So, as I was praying about what we could do together, I kept coming back to last summer when we went through the book of Jonah AND I had also created a light Summer in the Psalms: Bible Word Search Devotional series that we did not do together.

And so I thought it might be fun to do SUMMER IN THE PSALMS together this summer!!

SUMMER IN THE PSALMS is a beautiful Bible Word Search Devotional created to help you slow down, reflect, and spend time in God’s Word in a peaceful way. Each puzzle includes a Psalm, a short reflection, and a thoughtful question to help you draw closer to God – one word at a time.

If you’d like to join me, mark your calendar!
We’ll begin on June 1st!
I’ll be sharing more details here soon…

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I love how spring invites us to begin again!

It’s growing warmer outside…
The buds are beginning to show on the trees…
The sun is lingering longer in the evenings…
And deep down, my soul is whispering, “It’s time!”

Time to reset.
Time to clear out the clutter.
Time to come back to what matters most.

If you’ve been feeling a little spiritually tired lately… you are not alone.

Winter can be long and heavy and sometimes, without even realizing it, we drift just a little. Not away from God…but away from the quiet rhythms that keep us close to Him. But all we need is to take one small step back for a little reset!

Introducing: A Simple Spring Sale

For the next 7 DAys, every single Digital Journal
in my ETSY SHOP is just $5.

No coupon codes.
No chaos.
No rush.
No timers.
No hurdles.
Just… $5.

Pictured below are some of my Best Selling Studies
included in this Sale!
Including my Easter Journal titled
Hosanna in the Highest:
A 4-Week Journey to the Cross and the Risen King

I hope this makes it easier for you to grab a study you’ve had your eye on… or tuck a few journals away for summer… or send one to a friend who could use a little encouragement in her quiet time with the Lord.

So if a new journal or Bible study would bless you right now, this is the perfect time to scoop one up!

JUST VISIT MY ETSY SHOP –> HERE.

BONUS – nearly all of my Bible Studies have a free video series included. You can find the links to the videos by clicking here and then clicking on the Bible Study that interests you.

Thank you for being here. Thank you for letting me walk beside you as you walk with the Lord. And thank you for supporting my little ministry – it means more than you know.

Keep Walking with the King,
Courtney

I also have to mention that the paperback version of
Still Standing is 48% off right now on Amazon here.

If you don’t have a copy of STILL STANDING yet – now’s the time!

Just a reminder – all of the journals on ETSY are DIGITAL downloads. No physical product will be mailed. You will receive the download immediatley and you can print the workbook or use it on your tablet.

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Cue the Confetti!

TODAY WE BEGIN 31 DAYS OF PRAYER leading up to Easter Sunday
and I would love for you to join us!

If you already grabbed your guide, go ahead and open to Day 1 and begin!
If you haven’t yet, it’s not too late to jump in.

Get the Printable Guide here.
Join the Facebook community here.

Here’s what’s inside:

31 days of Scripture + reflection
A daily “doable” structure: Read • Reflect • Pray
Themes that shape a stronger prayer life: surrender, repentance, trust, intercession, gratitude, and the prayers of Jesus

We will complete our time together on Easter Sunday

I’m praying for you today as you start – may you experience the nearness of God, the peace of God, and a fresh desire for time with Him.

Walk with the King,
Courtney (Karen and Ruth), MyMentorshipCourses.com

DIGITAL FORMAT
31 Days of Prayer is a digital download. No physical product will be mailed. You can print the workbook or use it on your tablet. IT IS AVAILABLE (exclusively) ON ETSY HERE!

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