Saturday, August 22, 2026

A Guided Gratitude Journal Tour & Giveaway

About the Book

Book: A Guided Gratitude Journal

Author: Donna Wyland

Genre: Nonfiction/Christian Guided Journal

Release Date: September, 2025

What would you change in your life if you could? Scientific and faith-based research prove that gratitude is the key! 5 minutes a day/7 days a week/7 weeks. CHANGE YOUR MINDSET. CHANGE YOUR LIFE. Let today be the day your new life begins!

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About the Author

Donna Wyland is an award-winning author of fiction, nonfiction, and picture books. Her most recent gift book, Last Best Year – A Short Guide to a Grateful Life – is a Golden Scroll Award Winner, and her picture books, ‘Twas the Night Before Jesus and Psalms in Rhyme for Little Hearts were both Readers’ Choice Award Finalists.‘Twas the Night Before Jesus also won the Illumination Award Silver Medal and Psalms in Rhyme for Little Hearts was the Christian Indie Award winner for picture books.

Though she began a career in financial planning, God interrupted those plans and called her to write more than twenty years ago. Donna responded, “Yes, Lord,” and today has numerous books, essays, and blogs attributed to her name.

In the future, Donna hopes to continue writing guided journals to encourage and inspire people’s faith and confidence in God and themselves. As a Certified Christian Life Coach, Donna learned the value of asking powerful questions. Through her guided journals she hopes to lead readers to greater clarity, peace, and purpose as they read, consider, and reply to the questions asked.

Donna is grateful for her husband, four grown daughters, sons-in-law, and grandchildren. She and her husband currently live in Southwest Florida, but her passion for travel frequently takes her to other states and countries around the world. Only God knows where she will live in five years. Thankfully she has a husband who says he will follow her wherever she goes.

More from Donna

What would you change in your life if you could? Scientific and faith-based research prove that gratitude is the key! 5 minutes a day/7 days a week for 7 weeks could change your life. Let today be the day your new life begins!

This journal was inspired by God and written as a result of many personal losses in my life. As I tried to move toward healing, I felt like I was still walking under a dark cloud each day, faking happiness and joy as I went about my responsibilities as a wife, mother, and grandmother. I was still hurting and desperately wanted to know why. That’s when I did a deep dive on the topic of gratitude and discovered its tremendous power to heal.

I pray that this journal becomes a legacy of readers’ journeys to joy, emotional and physical health, peace, and a thankful way of life. God knows you and sees you. He is excited to hear your praise and watch you grow into a gratitude-filled man or woman of God who lights the world on fire simply by being your wonderful, beautiful, joyful self.

MY REVIEW

Am I the only one who gets excited when I find a new journal ? To say I was thrilled to review this is very accurate. I opened the book and began to slowly slip away into my secret place. There God had my full attention as I started my journey.

The journal is about gratitude which I think we forget about sometimes. We say we are thankful but do we express it enough? One definition of gratitude is, “an emotion of happiness and thankfulness for the good things in life.” I want to be grateful in the bad and good times. In seasons of trials, gratitude will help us grow and understand how much God loves us.

What are you grateful for? The list would be too long for me to write, but one thing for sure is I’m grateful that God loves me unconditionally. In this journal the author has divided chapters into different ways to show gratitude and how to appreciate everything. There are questions to answer with a place provided to write. God has a plan for each of us and as we become more grateful, the plan will start to be easier. Have you ever heard of “growing pains?” As Christians we grow spiritually each day. It may not always be easy as we grow and yes it can be painful. The reward is worth every trial we go through.

I’m grateful that I can come to my Father when I need help or just want to soak in His presence. No matter where you are, God is right there. That is something to be grateful for. We can always count on Him no matter what. Let’s learn to be grateful at all times.

I received a copy of this book from Celebrate Lit. The review is my own opinion.