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One Perfect Word: One Word Can Make All the Difference [Hardcover]

Debbie Macomber
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Book Description

January 3, 2012
Award-winning, perennial bestselling novelist Debbie Macomber applies the best of her fiction writing skills to true stories that illustrate the profound impact focusing on a single word—such as balance, surrender, or believe—for a whole year can bring.

In One Perfect Word, Debbie encourages readers with stories of her changed life when she took the time to intentionally focus on a single word for a whole year. Debbie shows readers how choosing a word to focus—and act—on changed not only Debbie, but those around her. In the tradition of One Simple Act and God’s Guest List, Debbie tells inspiring stories of how living just one word can change someone’s world. In a world where too many meaningless words overwhelm us, the simplicity of one perfect word becomes profound. Words like “surrender,” “believe,” and “purpose” took on new meaning for Debbie when she tried to live them out.

Read how Debbie discovered that the word she chose often foreshadowed the crisis she would face in a particular year. For example, the year she chose the word “balance,” her career moved to a whole new level. The pressures on Debbie to be speaking, promoting, and practically living on the road were overwhelming. It was her yearlong focus on that all-too-difficult word balance, and a plea from a lonely granddaughter, that helped her refine her schedule. Readers will be encouraged to find their word for themselves, and see how one perfect word can make all the difference.


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Sensucht is a word C. S. Lewis used to describe inconsolable longing, a feeling of deep connection that can’t really be explained by any word in the English language. As an example of the word’s meaning, Macomber, a New York Times best-selling author, recalls bursting into tears after declaring for the first time that she wanted to become a writer. The meanings of numerous more familiar English words are explored in One Perfect Word, but most impressive is the case Macomber makes for the power of words, those held in thought over long periods of time, directing intentions; words said at just the right moment; words offered in prayer; words written in journals; and words ingested in daily readings. Words are tools that can basically shape or destroy our very souls. In addition to using words to live a happier, more fulfilling life, the author advocates formulating goals and organizing one’s life. This book contains many heartwarming stories, both personal and passed on, that reveal what a difference words and faith can make. --Susan DeGrane

About the Author

Debbie Macomber, with more than 100 million copies of her books sold worldwide, is one of today's most popular authors. The #1 New York Times bestselling author is best known for her ability to create compelling characters and bring their stories to life in her books. Debbie is a regular resident on numerous bestseller lists, including the New York Times (70 times and counting), USA TODAY (currently 67 times) and Publishers Weekly (47 times). Visit her at www.DebbieMacomber.com.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Howard Books (January 3, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1439190593
  • ISBN-13: 978-1439190593
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.7 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #311,084 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Debbie Macomber is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and one of today's most popular writers with more than 170 million copies of her books in print worldwide. Macomber brings to life the compelling relationships that embrace family, community and enduring friendships, filling her readers with a sense of love and hope.

Macomber is the author of more than 100 novels, most recently the instant #1 New York Times bestseller Starting Now, and The Inn at Rose Harbor; two bestselling cookbooks; numerous inspirational and nonfiction works; two acclaimed children's books and the Mrs. Miracle Christmas novels. She is also the author of beloved and bestselling series of novels set in Cedar Cove, Washington (such as 16 Lighthouse Road, 204 Rosewood Lane, 311 Pelican Court) on which Debbie Macomber's Cedar Cove, Hallmark Channel's first dramatic scripted television series, is based. She is the recipient of a RITA® award; an RT Book Reviews Lifetime Achievement Award, and is a multiple winner of both the Holt Medallion and the B. Dalton Award. In 2010, the Romance Writers of America presented Macomber with their prestigious Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award. Her next novel to be published will be ROSE HARBOR IN BLOOM (August 13, 2013).

In addition to her bestselling novels, Macomber owns her own tea room, Victorian Rose Tea Room & yarn store, A Good Yarn, named after the shop featured in her popular Blossom Street novels. She and her husband, Wayne, serve on the Guideposts National Advisory Cabinet, and she was recently named World Vision's international spokesperson for their Knit for Kids charity initiative.

A devoted grandmother, Debbie and her husband Wayne live in Port Orchard, Washington State (the town on which her Cedar Cove novels are based) and winter in Florida.

For more information on Debbie and her books, visit her Web site: www.DebbieMacomber.com.

Customer Reviews

I highly recommend starting the year off with this book. Cafe Lily  |  5 reviewers made a similar statement
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars concentrate on one word for a year January 3, 2012
By Joan N.
Format:Hardcover
Words are powerful. A word, the right word, can change a life.
Yet we are bombarded with thousands of words a day. Are words losing their impact? Do we need to go on a word diet?
What if you were to take one word, just one word, and meditate on it for the whole day, for the whole year?
"When we choose one single word from His Word and spend a year with it, I've found that the Lord takes us by the hand and walks us through the year, teaching us about that word, about ourselves, and even more, about God Himself." (11)
Macomber has two goals in this book. First, she wants to encourage us to begin the practice of focusing on one perfect word each year. She helps us find the word, how to explore it, and how to recognize the lessons from it.
Second, she shares fourteen of her own words. She explains what she has learned through stories. For example, she writes of desire, her desire to be a writer. It was five years before she sold her first piece of writing, a magazine article. Another example is the word balance. Her concentrating on that word included determining her priorities, and setting smart goals (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Rewarding, Time-bound). Pray, organize, and de-clutter, she learned.
She encourages us to get a notebook and begin to gather the words that appear over and over again in our life.
She also points out that the word she picks for the year is in addition to her regular reading and study of God's Word.
Discussion questions at the back make this a good choice for reading groups.

This is an inspiring book. It is a joy to read. Not only was I inspired to choose my own word for the year, I also received a great deal of insight from her as she shared the lessons she learned from her own words.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring and motivating! January 4, 2012
Format:Hardcover
This book both inspired and encouraged me. It was very timely and most of the time while reading, I felt like Debbie was talking right to *me*. Her conversational tone in this book makes it very easy to read and I really enjoyed the personal examples she shared. She is very open in this book about some of her struggles, including her weight and her marriage. I appreciated her vulnerability and transparency very much, because reading how God brought her through those hard times ministered to me.

One Perfect Word is about Debbie's practice of choosing one word from the Bible to focus on and dissect for each year. This idea was born from the breakfast group that Debbie attended for over twenty years. These ladies each adopted this practice and this book is about the powerful impact that those *one* words have had on their lives.

Debbie shows readers how to quietly pray and "listen" for their perfect word, and how to go about choosing it. Debbie wrote that sometimes the word chooses us. Is there a word that keeps showing up over and over in your daily life? In articles - devotions - blogs? If so, that might just be your word for the year that God would have you focus on. Once you find your word, this book will take you through the steps of exploring it and discovering life lessons all stemming from *one* perfect word.

Debbie's words have changed over the years. Surrender, hope, prayer, trust.....these words and more transformed Debbie's life and as she looks back over her prayer journals, she can clearly see God at work. You may not know at first why you feel led to study a particular word but down the road, the purpose becomes clear.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A One Word Micro-Study for The Year January 4, 2012
Format:Hardcover
"One word can make all the difference," writes Debbie Macomber in her new book One Perfect Word. In fact, she proves this by sharing some of the single words that have guided her life the past 20 years. Debbie started the practice of selecting a single word for the year when she met with her womens business group and each January her breakfast-club ladies would select one word for the year. Over those twenty-years many of the words have had a powerful impact on her life.

One Perfect Word by Debbie Macomber introduces the idea of a "word diet" where you spend the year focused on less words rather than more. In a world cluttered with social networks, text messaging and an abundance of bloggers...the thought of a word diet ... One Perfect Word ...is appealing to many people. During the years Debbie has journaled about her one word. In each chapter she shares her own word choices, such as: desire, believe, hunger, trust, brokenness, prayer, obedience, seek, balance, wisdom, surrender, hope, passion and purpose. Each chapter concludes with a suggestion on how to identify One Perfect Word for your year and also ideas for using your word in a creative and tangible manner.

This is an inspiring book and enjoyable to read. Debbie Macomber shares bits of her personal life and weaves one word into her experience. She also quotes numerous authors and articles, making the book interesting to read. She says her two purposes in writing the book are" first, to encourage you to begin the practice of focusing on one perfect word each year." After reading her book I was inspired to choose one perfect word for 2012. Second, to share her own 14 words and show what she's learned through the experience. This book meets both of her objectives.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing insight!
Debbie has opened her life to readers. She shares with us personal, painful yet victorious incidents that help us understand her perspective. Read more
Published 29 days ago by lolly
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommend - re-readable and thoroughly enjoyable book
Good book that can influence our daily lives and other's lives by our words and actions. A good book to give a friend. Highly recommend.
Published 1 month ago by Denise Dunkley
5.0 out of 5 stars Love it.
Another good book by Debbie Macomber. Gives you something to think about. Wish I knew about this a long time ago. Better late than never though.
Published 3 months ago by jib
5.0 out of 5 stars Great non-fiction religious book.
The is Debbie preaching how to connect with God by picking one word a year to study. There are many stories of what Debbie's person life as been like.
Published 3 months ago by Nancy T. Taylor
5.0 out of 5 stars One Perfect Word
I had originally read this book from the library and knew that it was a must have in my library at home!
Published 3 months ago by Nancy G. Sheehan
5.0 out of 5 stars One Perfect Word
Favorite author. Love her books. Do not need so many words. These Amazon reviews call for more words than are necessary to give a review.
Published 3 months ago by Janet L. Barker
5.0 out of 5 stars challenging book
One Perfect Word is both a challenge and a comfort. A great put to use book to be read again and again.
Published 4 months ago by Lauraine Snelling
5.0 out of 5 stars A great little book
The book surpasses my expectations. It will greatly expand my vocabulary which is exactly what I need to do. It approaches the work in a way which is effective yet fun.
Published 4 months ago by L. Cram
5.0 out of 5 stars One Perfect word
I loved the concept of this book, I bought it for two of my friends. In it I read that Debbie Macomber had resisted suggestions to make her books racy. I am so glad she didn't. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Edith Ray
5.0 out of 5 stars Book in great condition. Haven't started reading yet.
Haven't started reading yet but am looking forward to seeing how Debbie chooses her word for the yeat. My word this year is gratitude/grateful
Published 4 months ago by Dot Lewis
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