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    This Isn't the Life I Signed Up For Growth Guide: ...But I'm Finding Hope and Healing
    This Isn't the Life I Signed Up For Growth Guide: ...But I'm Finding Hope and Healing
    This Isn't the Life I Signed Up For Growth Guide: ...But I'm Finding Hope and Healing
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    This Isn't the Life I Signed Up For Growth Guide: ...But I'm Finding Hope and Healing

    By Donna Partow

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    Donna Partow shares stories from her life and solid Bible teaching to show women that no matter how life has disappointed them, God can bring new life and hope where there was destruction, unforgiveness, or suffering. The audiobook, condensed to three hours, is read by the author.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBaker Publishing Group
    Release dateMar 1, 2003
    ISBN9781441210029
    This Isn't the Life I Signed Up For Growth Guide: ...But I'm Finding Hope and Healing

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      I appreciated the authors humour and honesty as she wrote this book. At times we all face things in life we "didn't sign up for" in life and Donna Partow looks at many challenges of life and how we can approach them with hope and not despair. She is funny, yet deals with some harsh realities of life and how to overcome them with healing and hope. I liked the way she finished up her book in the final chapter the best where she hit the nail on the head, God just wants us to be faithful to Him through all situations we encounter. I will close my review with one of her many quotes she highlights throughout her book, "Our most powerful opportunities for ministry are often borne out of our mistakes, out of our brokenness, out of those things in our lives that we didn't sign up for." Donna Partow is an author I enjoy reading and she helps me think through situations in a very practical yet biblical way.

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    This Isn't the Life I Signed Up For Growth Guide - Donna Partow

    GROWTH GUIDE

    THIS ISN'T

    THE LIFE 1

    Signed

    UP FOR

    Bethany House Books

    by Donna Partow

    Becoming a Vessel God Can Use

    Becoming a Vessel God Can Use Prayer Journal

    Becoming the Woman I Want to Be

    Living in Absolute Freedom

    Standing Firm

    This Isn’t the Life I Signed Up For

    This Isn’t the Life I Signed Up For Audio Book

    This Isn’t the Life I Signed Up For Growth Guide

    Walking in Total God-Confidence

    A Woman’s Guide to Personality Types

    EXTRACTING THE PRECIOUS

    2 Corinthians

    Isaiah

    Galatians

    Nehemiah

    GROWTH GUIDE

    THIS ISN'T

    THE LIFE 1

    Signed

    UP FOR

    DONNA PARTOW

    This Isn’t the Life I Signed Up For Growth Guide

    Copyright © 2003

    Donna Partow

    Cover design by Lookout Design Group, Inc.

    Author photo by Kevin & Kala Thomas.

    All Scripture quotations are from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.

    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without the prior written permission of the publisher and copyright owners.

    Published by Bethany House Publishers

    11400 Hampshire Avenue South

    Bloomington, Minnesota 55438

    Bethany House Publishers is a division of

    Baker Publishing Group, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

    Printed in the United States of America

    ISBN-13: 978-0-7642-2671-7

    ISBN-10: 0-7642-2671-1

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Partow, Donna.

       Growth guide to accompany This isn’t the life I signed up for : —but I’m finding hope and healing / by Donna Partow.

          p. cm.

       ISBN 0-7642-2671-1 (pbk.)

       1. Christian women—Religious life. 2. Spiritual life—Christianity. 3. Christian life—Biblical teaching—Textbooks. 4. Bible—Textbooks. I. Partow, Donna. This isn’t the life I signed up for. II. Title.

    BV4527.P373 2003

    248.8'43—dc21

    2002155877

    DONNA PARTOW is a Christian communicator with a compelling testimony of God’s transforming power. Her uncommon transparency and passion for Christ have been used by God at women’s conferences and retreats throughout North America. She is the bestselling author of numerous books and has been a popular guest on more than two hundred radio and TV programs, including Focus on the Family.

    If your church sponsors an annual women’s conference or retreat, perhaps they would be interested in learning more about the author’s special weekend programs. She is also available for luncheons and one-day events. For more information, contact:

    Donna Partow

    Web site: www.donnapartow.com

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    I would like to acknowledge the assistance of the following women, who gave valuable insight into both the book and the growth guide you now hold in your hands:

    The Apron Gang,

    Vermillion, OH

    Eileen Banks

    Noreen Boone

    Lynn Cheetham

    Sandy Cullum

    Loreen Desrosiers

    Jacque Fewkes

    Ann Flaherty

    Debby France

    Debbie Gilbert

    Jeanne Helstrom

    Cheryl Jones

    Chris Khamlin

    Kathy Lee

    Deborah Lovett

    Pat McBeth

    Cindy Measel

    Nancy Baccaro

    Ginny Bass

    Barbara Byrd

    Elisa Chung

    Dr. Brenda Cusack

    Sheila Feltner

    Betty Fitch

    Lynne Ford

    Becky Freeman

    Cindy Heflin

    Stephanie Janke

    Rhoni Kaastra

    Vicki J. Kuyper

    Judy Link

    Suzy Manning

    Carolyn McIntyre

    Yvonne Ortega

    Gail Padilla

    Tracie Peterson

    Brenda Ponceroff

    Lecia Segaard

    Connie Smith

    Donna Van Buren

    Denise Walker

    Shari Wiegel

    Kendra Brown Wilder

    Angela Patton

    Melissa Polley

    Joanne Richards

    Patti Shadbolt

    Helen Stellwag

    Marjorie Vawter

    Lorie Walton

    Sabrina White

    Trudy Wolcott

    My heartfelt thanks to each one of you for your creativity, wisdom, and willingness to ‘‘tell it like it is!’’

    CONTENTS

    How to Use This Growth Guide

    1. I Didn’t Sign Up for This Life!

    2. I Didn’t Sign Up for a Painful Childhood

    3. I Didn’t Sign Up for Disappointing Relationships

    4. I Didn’t Sign Up to Make Foolish Choices

    5. I Didn’t Sign Up for Disappointment With God

    6. I Signed Up for Happiness

    7. I Signed Up for Great Health

    8. I Signed Up for Love

    9. I Signed Up for the Perfect Little Family

    10. I Signed Up to Make a Difference

    A Note to Leaders

    Discussion Leader’s Guide

    Memory Verse Cards

    Affirmation Cards

    How to Use This Growth Guide

    Reading a book won’t necessarily change your life, but praying through and working through a book most definitely will. If you’ve picked up this study guide, my guess is that you’ve already obtained a copy of the book This Isn’t the Life I Signed Up For . . . But I’m Finding Hope and Healing. If not, I would strongly encourage you to do so. While I believe you can profitably work through the guide without reading the book, you will gain much more from the experience if you use it as it was designed: a companion to supplement your reading.

    It is also possible to work through the book and this companion growth guide in your own personal devotional time. However, you will gain far more insight and increase your likelihood of experiencing lasting change if you work through the material with a trusted friend, a small group, or as part of a weekly women’s Bible study. There is strength in numbers and power in accountability. If you aren’t part of an established group, be bold enough to pick up the phone and make a few calls. No doubt you are surrounded by women who

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