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Carmen Horne is the author of Out of Words: 31 Prayers of Hope for Your Hurting Heart, its companion journal, Finding Words: Writing from Hurt to Hope, Grace Maps: Our Journey Guided by God’s Grace, and its companion Leader’s Guide. She is a Board-Certified Advanced Christian Life Coach and host of the Your Hope Coach podcast. Carmen uses her gifts to support women as they learn to embrace, with hope, the unexpected.

Carmen is a contributor to 101 Secrets to a Happy Marriage — Thomas Nelson Publishers, Warrior Devotional — Declare Conference, The Message magazine, Just Between Us magazine, a featured contributor to Sweet to the Soul’s FAITH magazine, and many other online websites.

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Carmen’s Books:

Carmen Horne: Out of Words Book

Out of Words: 31 Prayers of Hope for Your Hurting Heart

Healing feels impossible when our hearts are so shattered that words fail us. When the pain is so great that we cannot pray, we long for gentle guidance and profound wisdom to guide our journey back to trust.

In Out of Words, Carmen Horne brings the experience and hope we need to regain strength — and find our words.

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Finding Words: Writing from Hurt to Hope

In Finding Words, Carmen Horne’s companion journal for Out of Words, she provides space to journal your thoughts and prayers. Carefully selected Scripture mirrors those in the book, providing comfort and guidance as you continue your healing journey.

Savor this time with your thoughts and with God. He longs to deepen His relationship with you.

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Carmen Horne: Grace Maps

Grace Maps: Our Journey Guided by God’s Grace

What if the unexpected delays and detours in your life are not random? 

When the path we travel is full of potholes, wrong turns, and recalculations, we wonder if God’s good plan for our lives is a lost destination. Too often, we believe the painful situations we face happen to us and assume God is unaware. In reality, our lives are a well-planned journey, and the detours and roadblocks are divine directions and recalculations because of personal choices.

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Grace Maps‘ Companion Leader’s Guide

Grace Maps’ Companion Leader’s Guide will: 

~Offer tips for leading your group.
~Provide suggested session pacing schedule.
~Supply session-by-session questions to facilitate group discussion
~Help you lead with confidence.

Grace Maps will help you better understand how connecting your past journey with your present course reveals God’s consistent presence along your life’s path. Grace Maps’ Leader’s Guide will give you the tools you need to lead with confidence.

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What Others Are Saying

“I have thoroughly enjoyed walking through Grace Maps. Over the years, I have run across several ‘life map’ processes. While they have been good, Grace Maps has excelled! Carmen’s approach helped me explore my life from God’s perspective, not with my limited vision. I saw that He chose a family for me and placed me in it. Walking through Grace Maps opened my eyes to see how the Lord was drawing me, even as a small child, even when I had no knowledge He was there. Thank you, Carmen and Grace Maps!”
Ellen Chauvin,
Blogger and Author
“When deep heartache and disappointment knocks you on your feet and steals your breath, you likely find yourself speechless, even in prayer. In Out of Words, Carmen gives you the actual words to say to help you rediscover prayer in the Prayer Invitation section, as well as comforting your heart with encouraging devotions and offering coaching questions to help you begin to heal your tender heart. Filled with Scripture and Hope-filled Declarations, Out of Words is a must-read for anyone who has ever dealt with a broken heart, disappointment, or grief.”
Stephanie K. Adams,
Real Women Ministries, Author of In the Shadow of the Cross: Following Jesus Through His Last Days
“Grace Maps helped answer and clarify for me personally the old question I’ve too often pondered, ‘Why did bad things happen to an innocent child, in particular, me?  Why didn’t God intervene, rescue me, punish the perpetrator?’
 
Developing my Grace Map has been a good, healthy emotional medicine for me. My childhood years, especially, often brought sad memories and frustration. However, the questions posed, guidance given about how to think about my past, and the correlating scriptures provided helped me get a different, healthier perspective on many of these sad memories.”
Sherry Martin,
Results Coach & Entrepreneur Enthusiast
“Whether we are growing in our faith or daringly intimate with God, we all encounter those times when we are scorched by a verbal grenade or singed in the fire of despair, defeat, doubts and dead ends. I strongly encourage you to reach for the cooling relief of Carmen’s book, Out of Words. She describes what we feel and puts our hand into God’s. Her prayers are like a fresh rain after a drought that provides a drenching in healing hope. We are soaked in His Presence where she reveals His spoken promises. I plan to give these books to everyone I mentor, lead and love!”
Betsy Ringer,
Speaker, Author, Personality Specialist