Deanna Nowadnick
Sharing the Fruit of God’s Spirit
I love empowering and encouraging women knowing that God’s been in the details ~ always has been, always will be. Join me as we talk about God’s loving kindness and ways we can inspire, motivate, and bring about meaningful change.
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such, there is no law."
Galatians 5:22-23
Speaking
About Deanna
Before my father died, he reminded me that Mom had asked me to write a book. At the time the boys were in college, and the notion of writing was unfathomable. Writers write books. By the time my boys were adults, I’d run out of excuses. I was also at that age when I could pause and reflect.
Fruit of My Spirit: Reframing Life in God’s Grace was my first publishing endeavor. My second was Signs in Life: Finding Direction in Our Travels with God. Both are collections of stories that tell of God’s love and faithfulness. Both tell of His remarkable grace and mercy.
More Inspirational Thoughts
Letting God Be God
Are you able to let God be God? Too often I refuse to let God be God. Too often I discount God’s will, His way, and His when, thinking I know best. Stuck in traffic last week, I told myself that I was just using God’s openings–those gaps between cars–to make up time, to speed ahead–but it wasn’t true. I thought I knew best.
Again–those delightful driving antics that connect to bigger, more important lessons in life!
God’s Loving Kindness in Life’s Pinched Fingers and Lost Key Moments
Yes, some days go sideways. Some of our best intentions fall short. But God never fails to reach in with His love and kindness in the smallest moments and also the bigger ones, the harder ones, the ones that pinch. There will be days when we hear “It happens” from the backseat. There will be days when we’re given an unexpected bouquet of lemon balm. And then there will be days when we’re can say it and we can share it.
Finding Love and Kindness in the Shadow of His Wings
When we “walk the WOLK,” when we walk God’s words of loving kindness, we have the opportunity to step into the moment in a very special way.
Let's "walk the W.O.L.K.”

Deanna’s books
Fruit of My Spirit:
Reframing Life in God’s Grace
In a memoir of missteps and misdeeds, DEANNA NOWADNICK writes of the hugeness of God’s love and faithfulness. Reframing life in God’s grace, she discovers an indescribable, indefinable, inexplicable love that has encircled her without fail through joyous, sad, cringe-worthy, heartwarming, forgettable, memorable moments in life. Fruit of My Spirit is for anyone who’s ever questioned God’s ability to love and forgive, who’s ever wondered about their place in God’s family or God’s place in theirs. Deanna offers hope for those who dare to question, who secretly wonder, and who fear to ask. Through stories of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control, you will experience the enormity of God, too.
Click HERE to read Fruit of My Spirit’s introduction.
Signs in Life: Finding Direction in Our Travels with God
SIGNS IN LIFE begins with a late night encounter with law enforcement. In the harsh glare of a flashlight, author DEANNA NOWADNICK learns the consequences of speeding through a stop sign. Other incidents follow. All are linked to the divine signs she’s encountered in that bigger journey through life. Join Deanna as she shares humorous anecdotes and inspirational lessons from her travels with God. See the signs in life. She might be speeding through a stop sign–yet again!–while you’re carefully navigating a busy street, but together we’re all part of a bigger journey, a greater purpose. We’re all part of God’s great story.
As she used to tell her young sons, “Buckle up. We’re going for a ride.”
Take a look at Signs in Life–Prologue HERE.
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