Messy Beautiful Love delivers an incredible testimony of grace that offers hope for today’s marriages and a spark for rekindling love.

Love gets messy. 

Financial problems, sickness, aging parents, a chronically unhappy spouse . . . trials will inevitably come that threaten your marriage. No matter how long you’ve been married or how strong your relationship is, sooner or later you are going to have a mess to clean up.

Messy Beautiful Love is about cleaning up messes God’s way, exchanging your ideas for His, and being prepared for both the best and the worst that marriage has to offer. 

When you surrender your relationship to God, then and only then will you experience the blessing of marriage as He intended. This is the blessing of obedience.

Messy Beautiful Love is an invitation to that obedience. The cynical world says marriages don’t last, but God knows better. Tune out the world and tune in to Him. When you do that, a beautiful marriage is not only possible, it’s inevitable.

PRE-ORDER HERE:
http://messybeautifullove.com/

 What You Get When You Pre-Order One copy of Messy Beautiful Love:
A bundle of 10 eBooks, including Darlene’s newest never-before released eBook, I’d Rather be a Crown Than a Trophy Wife
A set of 31 Printable Prayer Cards
1 Downloadable MP3 song- “Untold Story” by Naomi Striemer

 What You Get When Your Order Five or More copies: 
The bundle of 10 eBooks, including Darlene’s newest never-before released eBook, I’d Rather be a Crown Than a Trophy Wife
A set of 31 printable Prayer Cards
1 Downloadable MP3 song- “Untold Story” by Naomi Striemer
The Messy Beautiful Love Companion Study Guide
25 inspiring iPhone Wallpapers
Words Fitly Spoken – 200 printable conversation starters!

Read full blog post here to get freebies and to order:
http://timewarpwife.com/?p=4331

I pre ordered a paperback copy on amazon last week and already got my freebies from her. I can’t wait to read the extra e-books that I got with my order. SUCH A GREAT DEAL!!

I will hopefully be on the blogger launch team for this book, but if not, I’ll still be reading and posting about this new book-Messy Beautiful Love.

I participated in an online book club for Darlene’s book “The Virtuous Life” a couple months ago and it was truly outstanding and I learned so much!! Can’t wait to read this new one!

Don’t miss this month’s Quilts of Love book, A Grand Design by Amber Stockton. Who hasn’t struggled to let painful memories go and move into God’s healing? You’ll be sure to love this heartfelt and encouraging tale set on historic Mackinac Island.

Celebrate August’s release by entering to win a Kindle from Quilts of Love and RSVPing for the “Fall into Fall” Facebook auth chat party.

  One winner will receive:

• A Kindle HDX
• A Grand Design by Amber Stockton
• Hidden in the Stars by Robin Caroll

Enter today by clicking one of the icons below. But hurry, the giveaway ends on September 16th. Winner will be announced at the “Fall into Fall” Facebook party with Amber Stockton and Robin Caroll. RSVP for an evening of book chat, quilting tips and tricks, prizes, and more!

RSVP today and spread the word—tell your friends about the giveaway via FACEBOOK or TWITTER and increase your chances of winning. Hope to see you on the 16th!

I received this set of 6 books in exchange for a blog book review. All opinions are my own.

You can read more about this series-The Ripple Effect on author Rachael Anderson’s blog here:
http://rachaelreneeanderson.blogspot.it/p/the-ripple-effect-series.html

This novella series was so much fun to read. Very fast reading, clean, funny and romantic. I  loved how the books intertwined with each other by using a character mentioned in the previous book for the current book. They don’t have to be read in order, but the character development will make more sense if you do.

Then read on below to get the official book descriptions and links to buy if you’re interested.

Book 1: Home Matters
This story is about Olivia who is a designer on a home improvement show. It follows her thru her new job experiences and kept me guessing as to whether her love interest ends up being Pete or William. I especially loved how Pete and Olivia met at auditions-very funny! Towards the end of the book, character Drew is introduced who is in book 2.

Book 2: Silver Linings
The story starts off with Drew giving all his trust fund money to a charity (Pete’s charity from book 1) and moving to Colorado to get away from his family. He ends up staying with his friend Jace and getting to know Jace’s girlfriend Eden and the senior citizens at the local assisted living facility. This story is filled with love and meaningful relationships/friendships. Left me smiling.

Book 3: Righting a Wrong
This story is about Cambri who use to live in a small town of Colorado and was friends with Jace (from book 2). After 6 years she returns to her hometown and struggles facing her dad and Jace whom she had left behind all those years ago. We read about her emotional struggles towards her dad and her feelings of regret, guilt, questioning her life…I really love the last sentence of the book when Cambri tells Jace that in looking back she wouldn’t change anything because the hard stuff made her a stronger and wiser person. Emotional story!

Book 4: Lost and Found
This is the story about Lydia (Jace’s sister from book 3) who lives in the same small Colorado town and goes to visit North Carolina for “adventure”. On her return home, her flight is delayed and she meets a great guy named Blake, who is also from Colorado. They decide to “help” each other out while they wait for their return flight home. Blake helping Lydia to find adventure in her life; and Lydia helping Blake find his grandfathers missing box. Along the way they both learn alot about each other and rethink some life choices-filled with adventure, romance, and sadness-love how the story ends!

Book 5: Second Chances
This is the story about Francie (mentioned in book 4), a widowed woman who goes back to school while balancing two jobs as well. She lives in an old house alone while her son is in college and struggles to maintain the house, her jobs, and school. Along the way she meets Professor Alex and a girl named Rose at school and develops good relationships with them. I love how the story shows Francie’s simple life and her struggles, but that shes always so caring and loving to others regardless of how busy she is. True example of service to others!

Book 6: Immersed
Sam (daughter of Professor Alex in book 5) helps do a “make under” for Lisette who has her own business of teaching English to sightseers but has a problem with attracting the wrong kind of men because she’s so beautiful. Lisette transforms herself into a very frumpy, plain woman in order to keep her business afloat to pay off old debts. Her plan works for quite a while until along the way she meets Erik and then wishes she never did her make under. Funny story-love how it ends!!

Home Matters (book 1)
by Julie N. Ford

Description:
According to her mother, Olivia Pembroke was born to be a star. But how is she supposed to be famous when she can’t even get a decent acting gig? Her lucky break comes when she lands an audition for a wildly popular home improvement show. Even though she has no design training and has never held a power tool, she refuses to let that stop her. She’s confident that her destiny is finally within reach. 

When her affections are torn between her heartthrob co-host and the irritating, yet somehow endearing lead contractor, does she continue to reach for the stars? Or does she design a new happily ever after? One that leads not to the fading lights of fame and fortune, but to a love that will burn forever.

Silver Linings (book 2)
by Kaylee Baldwin

Description:
Drew Westfall wants nothing more than to forget what he had to do in the name of “smart” business. Cutting off all ties with his parents—including handing over the entire contents of his trust fund to a charity—he takes off for Bridger, Colorado where his best friend has an extra room for him. It doesn’t take long for him to realize that his business degree won’t do him much good in a town as small as Bridger, but he’s broke and has nowhere else to go.

Eden Torresi has every reason to wallow. Not only did she have to sell her house to pay for her mother’s medical expenses, but she had to drop out of school and is in a relationship with a guy unwilling to commit. But Eden isn’t the wallowing type. Instead, she spends most of her time taking care of the seniors at Silver Linings Assisted Living. When she learns that her boyfriend’s new roommate is down on his luck, she reaches out to offer what help she can. But the more time they spend together, the more complicated things get, especially when the seniors of Silver Linings decide to play matchmaker.

Righting a Wrong (book 3)
by Rachael Anderson

Description:
Seven years ago, Cambri Blaine fled her small hometown of Bridger, Colorado after her senior year of high school ended in a fiasco. But now her father needs help, and Cambri has no choice but to return home. So with trepidation, she takes a leave of absence from the landscape architecture firm where she works and heads home, hoping against hope that Jace Sutton is no longer around and that the past can stay where it belongs—in the past.

If only life worked that way.

Jace never expected to see Cambri again. After she walked out of his life without a backward glance, he was left with no choice but to try to forget her and move on. But now that Cambri is back and looking more beautiful and sophisticated than ever, some of those old feelings resurface, and Jace instinctively knows, for the sake of his heart, that he needs to avoid her at all costs.

If only it were that easy. 


Lost and Found (book 4)
by Karey White

Description:
Lydia was supposed to have an adventurous and exciting summer. Instead she’s done nothing more than read and eat takeout. Now it’s time to go home, and what does she have to show for it? A big fat nothing. Unless, of course, her trip to the airport somehow turns into something more than just a flight home. 

Blake feels like he’s been sent on a wild goose chase. While work is piling up back in Denver, he’s on the other side of the country, hunting for some mysterious box that his grandfather left him. Well, no more. Nothing inside that box could possibly be more important than the opportunity to make it as the youngest partner at his firm. So he’s going home, and that’s that. But that’s before he discovers his flight has been cancelled. 

When these two strangers meet at the airport, they make a split-second decision to search for the box together. Maybe with both of them on the hunt, Lydia can have her adventure and Blake can find the box. And maybe, if they’re lucky, they’ll even find some romance.


Second Chances 101 (book 5)
by Donna K. Weaver

Description:
Thirty-seven year old Francie Davis, a recent widow and empty nester, gets to attend college at last. She’s sure her luck has changed when she also lands a job on campus that will pay her tuition, as administrative assistant to a history professor. When her handsome new boss yells at her on the first day of work, Francie worries she will never be good enough.

For Professor Alex Diederik, life is going downhill fast. Not only is his bitter ex-wife trying to poison their only daughter against him, but now his one place of solace—his work environment—is being complicated by his attractive new administrative assistant. She drives home his feelings of failure as a husband and father, and Alex wonders if hiring her was the right thing to do. 

Francie will have to put aside her hurt and insecurities or risk her dreams, while Alex must look outside himself if he’s to mend the breach with his daughter. And, perhaps, find someone who can help heal his pain.


Immersed (book 6)
by Jennifer Griffith

Description:
Lisette Pannebaker speaks five languages and has a brilliant business plan—personal language immersion. Clients can hire her to shadow them and speak all day in any language they need to learn for business or travel—whatever. But there’s a major hitch: she’s far too pretty. Clients with less than honorable intentions sign up just to have Lisette at their side. Solution? A make-under. Way under.

The bad wig, icky makeup and puffy sweaters work like a charm. None of her male clients show her the least bit of interest. Lisette’s totally relieved.

Until…Erik.

Erik Gunnarson is charming, kind, and smart—everything she’s ever looked for. Every day as his tutor is making her fall for him more. Even though he seems to have a secret, and she’s sworn she’d never date a client, Lisette is tempted to shed her disguise—although it could mean jeopardizing her career.

HOME MATTERS (book 1)
http://www.amazon.com/Matters-Ripple-Effect-Romance-Novella/dp/1941363008/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_y

SILVER LININGS (book 2)
http://www.amazon.com/Silver-Linings-Ripple-Romance-Novella/dp/1941363016/ref=pd_sim_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=0V6VEA9G60YKH4FW3BPP

RIGHTING A WRONG (book 3)
http://www.amazon.com/Righting-Ripple-Effect-Romance-Novella/dp/1941363024/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=0XVSHW9G50XT2X7FFV4M

LOST AND FOUND (book 4)
http://www.amazon.com/Found-Ripple-Effect-Romance-Novella/dp/1941363032/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398282811&sr=1-4&keywords=ripple+effect+romance+series

SECOND CHANCES 101 (book 5)
http://www.amazon.com/Second-Chances-Ripple-Romance-Novella/dp/1941363040/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398282841&sr=1-6&keywords=ripple+effect+romance+series

IMMERSED (book 6)
http://www.amazon.com/Immersed-Ripple-Effect-Romance-Novella/dp/1941363059/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=0SHGXX3F14WQTN2WDQER

Earlier this month I posted a blog post about Bungypump training poles:

http://66.147.244.197/~empowfu5/2014/08/bungypump-training-poles-what-are-they.html

Today I wanted to show you some of the ways that I’ve been using them outside. 

Active side bend with both poles

This is really great for the core area!

Deep squats with one pole

Forward lunges with one pole

This really helps with balance and being able to do a deeper lunge. 

Crossed lunges with one pole

Back lunges with both poles

Leg swings with both poles

Be careful not to swing your legs up too high or you will hurt your hips. 

Knee ups (marching) with both poles

single squats with one pole

my 4 year old wanted to do with me too! 😉 

Of course all these exercise could be done with a walking stick, but I really like the Bungypump training poles because they add the extra weight and resistance. 

Here are some other ideas on how to use the training poles: 
https://primetrade-inc.com/how-to-use/

Who can use them? 

Weight Loss

The benefits of BungyPump have also been recognised by those aiming to lose weight. The increased burning of calories has led to BungyPump being featured on several nationally televised weight-loss competitions, e.g. “Sweden’s Biggest Loser”.

Rehabilitation

One of the unique features of BungyPump is the well-documented benefits offered to those involved in rehabilitation programs. The built-in suspension offers soft and gentle exercise while activating a wide range of muscle groups in the back and upper body. BungyPump is recommended and used by physiotherapists and other medical specialists which has been very important to the success and wide-spread appreciation of BungyPump on the Swedish market.

Regular exercisers

The largest market segment belongs to those people of all ages and from all walks of life who are generally interested and active in some type of regular fitness activity. The benefits of the increased activation of upper body muscle groups when walking appeals to all those interested in simple, regular exercise.

Potential Exercisers

BungyPump not only appeals to those actively involved in regular physical activity, but has proven to be very attractive to those people who feel the need to exercise, but are not motivated to join a gym or find it difficult to start a fitness program. Training with BungyPump is seen as “fun” offering effective exercise at a low cost in a relatively short time. As such, BungyPump easily motivates and touches a demographic in which traditional exercise and training techniques have held little interest.

Elderly people

The soft and gentle exercise afforded by the built-in suspension system holds great appeal to elderly people who wish to continue regular physical activity. The fact that a wide range of muscle groups in the back and upper body are activated when walking offers a very effective way of maintaining a certain level of fitness and well-being.

Occupational / health care

BungyPump is very popular with Human Resource departments of companies, sports associations and other organisations as they are becoming more and more aware of the importance of good health and regular exercise for the well-being of their staff and members. Free training events have proven very popular and have helped raise BungyPump’s profile through the hands-on experience.

Elite Athletes

The fact that BungyPump has been embraced by leading sports and fitness personalities in Sweden has been very important to the success on the Swedish market. Through endorsements from top level skiers, who find BungyPump to be an excellent complement to their training schedules, and opinion leaders in the fitness world who have recognised the unique benefits of BungyPump, we have enjoyed wide-spread acceptance as a serious training product.

Walkers

Many people enjoy walking as a simple and relaxing means of exercise. BungyPump has become very popular as a complement to this as the built-in suspension eliminates any shock to the upper body and so becomes a very natural extension of the walking movement whilst offering far more effective training. In addition, a large number of people who started walking with standard Nordic poles as a means of exercise have now started using BungyPump.

Here’s a great article on walking 10,000 steps with BungyPump training poles:
https://primetrade-inc.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/10-000-steps-with-BungyPump_ENG_USA.pdf

Read FAQ here: 
https://primetrade-inc.com/bungypump-faq/

You can buy them here: 
https://primetrade-inc.com/product/bungypump-number-one-8-8-lb/

Have you ever heard of Bungypump training poles or used some kind of training poles for walking or exercising? 

I was sent these BungyPump training poles complimentary for blog review this summer. 
All opinions and pictures are my own. 

Aug 13 #activelivingchallenge how do I practice #activeliving everyday? By getting up and exercising every morning. By encouraging my boys to #exercise with me. By taking family walks outside. Doing yard work and gardening. Going to the park. How do you stay active?? >> #movenourishbelieve @fitapproach@lornajaneactivewear #fitfamily #sweatpink