Julie B. Cosgrove
Author/Writer/ Speaker
Author/Writer/ Speaker
God opens windows? I have heard that said. But when my nest emptied, I felt all of them closing tightly shut with a loud BAM. The air was stifling. I wasn't sure how I was supposed to move about these rooms called my life or if they even served a purpose anymore. Then my husband died. And the air sucked out of my lungs, and my life. But God's spirit is filling them again, breath by breath.
Slowly, God has been letting me know the answer. I left my career of 20 plus years and began to pursue a passion that had been long buried under being a wife (now widowed), mother and money earner. That passion is writing and speaking about our Lord, especially to women.
What I have discovered is I'm still a woman, mother and money earner - the roles just needed some refining and defining. As things move around these rooms called my life,I realize it is still all me, just in different arrangements. Like a chair over here instead of there, maybe a new side table, or moving a picture, a lamp or a rug into a new room and in a totally new configuration. It is God who is the Master designer, not me. These rooms in my life are taking on new purposes and new perspectives. I think they'll turn out just fine.
A member of the Christian Writers Fellowship International, North Texas Christian Writers, The Christian Ministry & Church Leadership Group on LinkedIn, the Daughters of the King, Advanced Writers & Speakers Ass'n and Toastmasters International, I live with two cats in Fort Worth, Texas.
Please click through the site and visit a while. If you would like me to speak to your group about -
* Biblical examples of what to do while crouched between the door God closed and the window He will open- just now now.
* Bringing power and purpose to your prayers
* Which un-named women of the New Testament have a lesson for us today
* Finding God in the middle of your empty nest or after the death of a spouse
* Aspire to Inspire before you Expire - God always has a purpose for you
* How to have your own freelance writing business
* How to get more depth of personal meaning out of Scripture passages
* Human trafficking in the US and how to spot it, where to report it, and why it effects us all.
. . . or any other topic your group might wish to discuss, using a trained conversation facilitator.
I'd be happy to meet with you. If you just want to say hi, that's okay.
Contact me here
Thanks. Have a blessed, "I know God is beside me" day.
Slowly, God has been letting me know the answer. I left my career of 20 plus years and began to pursue a passion that had been long buried under being a wife (now widowed), mother and money earner. That passion is writing and speaking about our Lord, especially to women.
What I have discovered is I'm still a woman, mother and money earner - the roles just needed some refining and defining. As things move around these rooms called my life,I realize it is still all me, just in different arrangements. Like a chair over here instead of there, maybe a new side table, or moving a picture, a lamp or a rug into a new room and in a totally new configuration. It is God who is the Master designer, not me. These rooms in my life are taking on new purposes and new perspectives. I think they'll turn out just fine.
A member of the Christian Writers Fellowship International, North Texas Christian Writers, The Christian Ministry & Church Leadership Group on LinkedIn, the Daughters of the King, Advanced Writers & Speakers Ass'n and Toastmasters International, I live with two cats in Fort Worth, Texas.
Please click through the site and visit a while. If you would like me to speak to your group about -
* Biblical examples of what to do while crouched between the door God closed and the window He will open- just now now.
* Bringing power and purpose to your prayers
* Which un-named women of the New Testament have a lesson for us today
* Finding God in the middle of your empty nest or after the death of a spouse
* Aspire to Inspire before you Expire - God always has a purpose for you
* How to have your own freelance writing business
* How to get more depth of personal meaning out of Scripture passages
* Human trafficking in the US and how to spot it, where to report it, and why it effects us all.
. . . or any other topic your group might wish to discuss, using a trained conversation facilitator.
I'd be happy to meet with you. If you just want to say hi, that's okay.
Contact me here
Thanks. Have a blessed, "I know God is beside me" day.
*Writer of women's devotionals at
thechristianwoman.com
christianwomentoday.com part of the Power to Change website
Articles published in -
The Upper Room's Alive Now Magazine Sept/Oct '09
The Upper Room's Devozine Jan., 2011
Good News Daily devotionals 2010-2012
The Secret Place, Winter 2010, Spring 2012
Chicken Soup for the Soul - Find Your Happiness, Oct, 2011
The Christian Pulse Christian Life/ For Her
Cross & Quill Magazine
The Examiner.com/Dallas Baby Boomer
Glory & Strength
Believersbay.com.
JournEzine
NOW Magazine 2011-2012
The Journey, Jan-April 2013
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The Window and the Door - a Bible study through Abbott Press- March 2012.
They say when God closes a door He opens a window. But, rarely is is a simultaneous act - for a reason. Discover, through personal experiences and Biblical examples, others who have been crouched between the Window and the Door seeking God's purpose, and what they learned in the process.
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Hush in the Storm 2012-2013 - A Christian suspense novel.
Jen, a young widow floundering in the storm of mourning, whose only lifeline is her humdrum job, is thrust into a maze of deceit and intrigue by a coworker named Tom. . . at the request of her late husband, or so Tom says.
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available in paperback or Kindle, Nook , IPad versions
from Amazon.com
P-R-A-Y-I-N-G
Bringing Power & Purpose
to Your Prayers through studying each letter
as a type of prayer -
praise, recounting, atonement,
yielding, intercession, needs
and glory
6x9 paperback
Song Notes: Devotionals from the
Book of Psalms
A fresh, honest look at how verses in
the Psalms can be just a relevant today
as when scribed centuries ago.
6x9 paperback
AND -
Relocate Without a Scratch
Tips on how to move a family
across the country or around
the corner from someone who has
22 times in 33 years
eBook only on lulu.com
JUST RELEASED:
Focused- a Novel Jan 20th exclusive to Kindle $2.99 and in paperback on Feb 10th thru Amazon $11.99
Christina is at a loss- over the death of her parents, her grown son's vacating the nest and her husband's absence, even when he is in his beloved recliner at home. Now she has lost her glasses, and perhaps a bit of her faith. Will new ones help her refocus on the important things when her old high school beau resurfaces in her life?
6x 9 paperback
The Window and the Door - a Bible study through Abbott Press- March 2012.
They say when God closes a door He opens a window. But, rarely is is a simultaneous act - for a reason. Discover, through personal experiences and Biblical examples, others who have been crouched between the Window and the Door seeking God's purpose, and what they learned in the process.
Convenient 8.5x11 workbook size for writing responses and notes
Hush in the Storm 2012-2013 - A Christian suspense novel.
Jen, a young widow floundering in the storm of mourning, whose only lifeline is her humdrum job, is thrust into a maze of deceit and intrigue by a coworker named Tom. . . at the request of her late husband, or so Tom says.
Read the First Chapter
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a Bible study of ten un-named women in the New Testament and how their stories can be a lesson for us today
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Eleven unnamed women in the New Testament have a message for us on how to encounter Christ. Biblical verses included.
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