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For Transformation Tuesday, here is a nugget of transformative   108 Yoga and Self-Care Practices for Busy Mamas  by Julie Gentile.  " Take incredible care of yourself now so you can take care of the others in your life."   awards earned by 108 Yoga and Self-Care Practices for Busy Mamas IPPY bronze medal Book Excellence Award finalist Julie maintains a transformative website on Ayurvedic yoga and self-care. Check it out: Julie the Yogi . For more posts about Julie and her books, click  HERE . Read more Transformation Tuesday Nuggets HERE Read more posts about transformation HERE . To purchase copies of this book at 25% discount, use code FF25 at  MSI Press webstore . Want to buy this book and not have to pay for it? Ask your local library to purchase and shelve it. VISIT OUR  WEBSITE  TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ALL OUR AUTHORS AND TITLES. Sign up for the MSI Press LLC monthly newsletter (recent releases, sales/discounts, awards, reviews, Amazon top...

  For Transformation Tuesday, here is a nugget of transformative wisdom from A Believer-in-Waiting's First Encounters with God by Elizabeth Mahlou.  "M y being unaware of the reasons does not mean that they do not exist." For more posts about Elizabeth and her books, click  HERE . Read more Transformation Tuesday Nuggets  HERE Read more posts about transformation  HERE . To purchase copies of this book at 25% discount, use code FF25 at  MSI Press webstore . Want to buy this book and not have to pay for it? Ask your local library to purchase and shelve it. VISIT OUR  WEBSITE  TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ALL OUR AUTHORS AND TITLES. Sign up for the MSI Press LLC monthly newsletter (recent releases, sales/discounts, awards, reviews, Amazon top 100 list, author advice, and more -- stay up to date)   Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC?  We help writers become ...

  C.S. Lewis didn’t stumble into faith; he reasoned his way toward it — and then something deeper happened. He began as a convinced atheist, shaped by war and loss, skeptical of anything unseen. But over time, his intellect led him to a crossroads. He realized that his longing for meaning — what he called Joy — pointed to something beyond himself. Logic opened the door; experience walked him through it. Lewis described his conversion not as a sudden revelation but as a surrender: “I gave in, and admitted that God was God.” That moment wasn’t triumph — it was transformation. He moved from resistance to recognition, from argument to awe. And in that shift, his life’s direction changed — his writing, his friendships, his sense of purpose. Transformation often begins where certainty ends. For Lewis, it wasn’t emotion that led him to God, but the realization that reason itself pointed toward the divine. It’s a reminder that faith can begin not in belief, but in the honest search for tr...

Before he became one of Christianity’s greatest thinkers, Augustine was a seeker — brilliant, ambitious, and restless. He pursued truth through philosophy, pleasure, and prestige, yet found himself unsatisfied. His mind was sharp, but his heart was divided. His transformation began not in a single moment, but in a gradual awakening. He wrestled with questions of meaning and morality until, one day, he heard a child’s voice say, “Take and read.” Opening Scripture, he found words that pierced through his defenses. In that instant, intellect met grace. Augustine later wrote, “You have made us for Yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You.” His conversion was not an escape from reason but its fulfillment. He discovered that truth was not an idea to grasp but a presence to encounter. Augustine’s story reminds us that transformation often begins with restlessness — the ache that drives us toward the divine. When the mind’s search meets the heart’s surrender, peace...