Jasmine's Place Issue No. 4 - March/April 2013 | Page 17

To this day, I use my writing and voice to share God’s encouragement and love. My mission is for my audiences to find freedom through surrender. As I’ve moved forward in writing and my surrender experiences, I knew having a tagline was important to build what they call a a platform in the writing world. I’ve had to surrender good things like writing for my local Mothers of Preschoolers group. I didn’t understand why God was asking me to let that go, but that good surrender was so He could place me somewhere else. I’ve had to surrender what might come under a bad category, like fear. I can fall into gossip without realizing it. Those are things I want to be free of. The part of the tagline I receive the most comments about is “maybe one day surrendering the chocolate”. The majority of my audience is made of women, and chocolate is definite a weakness for all of us. There was a time I would eat M&M’s for breakfast by the handfuls and have no shame. My mission is for my audiences to find freedom through surrender. Although I’ve surrendered that, I haven’t quite given chocolate up. But, maybe one day.  Copyright © Julie Arduini 2013 Julie Arduini is a writer and speaker who encourages audiences to find freedom through surrender. She knows it has to start with her, so she’s surrendering the good, the bad, and … maybe one day … the chocolate. She blogs for Christians Read, the Bella Women Network, and is working on her Adirondack based contemporary romance. Julie lives in Ohio with her husband and children. Visit her at: http://juliearduini.com/ JASMINE'S PLACE 17 17