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 recalculation because of personal choices.

Grace Maps: Our Journey Guided by God's Grace, written by Carmen Horne

With Carmen Horne as your guide and Grace Maps as your guidebook, you will better understand how connecting your past journey with your present course reveals God’s consistent presence along your life’s path. Using thought-provoking questions, biblical examples, and personal stories, your Hope Coach guides you to realize that nothing God allows in your life is coincidental.

Grace Maps will help you:

Discover how what appeared as detours and delays were really divine directions.
Create a visual reminder of God’s grace and mercy to you through the years.
Leave a treasured testimony for future generations.
Release past hurts with a better understanding of how God uses our circumstances for His glory and our good.

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 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.

Whether you speed along on your Grace Maps journey or casually meander the path, signposts found during each stop will make your trek come alive with an appreciation of God’s providence and provision for His children.

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What Others Are Saying

“Working through my Grace Map has been such an eye-opening journey for me. As someone who doesn’t like to talk about their feelings, it’s been so good for my heart to have a guide like this. Carmen’s prompts have helped me process through the different seasons of my life, the good ones and especially the hard ones. Looking back, I can see how God’s hands were always all over everything that has happened, especially the lessons He taught me through the difficult seasons of my son being diagnosed with autism and losing loved ones. Now I have a renewed hope for the future, knowing He’ll be right there beside me, giving grace where I need it most.”

~ Kim Stewart

“I’m not good at looking at myself or my life. Grace Maps opened up memories, both good and not so good, of my past that helped me to really see how many times God was walking with me through some of the toughest times. Grace Maps also helped me smile at so many sweet memories of where God’s handiwork in my life became more obvious. If you struggle with wondering “where is God,” Grace Maps is a beautiful faith builder to see that He is, and always was, there even when we don’t feel Him. Thank you, Carmen, for the road trip.”

~ Karen Spruell

“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.

Thank you, Carmen, for gifting us with Grace Maps!!”

~ Sherry Martin

“It’s taken me many years to embrace my life story as GOD’S story for my life. Sure, I’d focus on all the good things God led me through, but I’d wonder about the painful hurts, disappointments, failures, and inadequacies. I’m so grateful for Jesus’ many questions in the Bible, such as: “What do you want?” Why are you afraid? Which of you, by worrying, can add a single day to your life?” Questions help us think through things and gain perspective. That’s exactly what Grace Maps does! The questions help us wrestle with the happenings in our lives so we can see God illuminate how He has been near the whole time and how His hand has guided us through. The result is a real treasure map for our life journey!
Stick with it. Think and pray. Let your heart and mind revisit past experiences and listen as God reveals His great love and encouragement!”

~ Betsy Ringer, Speaker, Author, Mentor

“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

“It’s truly amazing to be able to navigate our life journey in such an amazing way with Grace Maps. It’s truly the Grace of God that carries us through our journey, and if we yield the right-of-way to this map and stay on course with the Holy Spirit (GPS), we shall surely arrive at the place called “there” — a land flowing with milk & honey, Grace Maps will definitely re-route many to a brighter future in the Kingdom.”

~ Lucinda Marie Davis

“Grace Maps is such a beautiful, special way to learn the Word and take a journey through the Scriptures. I love the map concept as Holy Spirit guides us through His Word through grace. Love it!”

~ Shelley Odom

“When reading Carmen Horne’s Grace Maps, I was constantly surprised by one important fact in all the life stages: God’s Presence. Creating a ‘life map’ in retrospect allowed for the remembrance of past situations coupled with new discoveries of God’s continual presence. The “life map” became a Grace Map. What a gift!”

~ Tammy Lawless