
You haven't lost your faith. You've lost the feeling of it.
Devotional Journal for WomenWhen Your Bible Stays Open but Something Inside Has Quietly Closed
A 140-day slow return — designed for faith that is intact and feeling that is gone.
A 140-Day Reflective Devotional Journal
Book 3 of a 70-journal series · 140 daily reflections · 9,800 guided prompts across the series
- 140 daily reflections
- Scripture + guided journaling space
- Written for women experiencing spiritual dryness
- Five honest minutes a day
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Look inside
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Why this is different
Most devotionals
- Inspiration to read
- Reading only
- Generic encouragement
- Read once, then forgotten
This journal
- A daily practice you actually do
- Reflection + Scripture + writing space
- Written specifically for women experiencing spiritual dryness
- 140 steady days that build over time
Who it's for
This is for
- The woman whose Bible has stayed open while her heart went quiet.
- Anyone who wants structure without pressure
- Small groups, church families & gift-givers
This is not for
- Anyone wanting a quick, read-once motivational book
- Readers who don't want to write anything down
- Those after a study guide without daily reflection
An established series
Part of a growing library of guided devotional journals from Stilling Waves Press.
About this journal
The full story, in our own words
A 140-day devotional journal for the woman who has not lost her faith, only the feeling of it — a slow, gentle place to return, reflect, and pray.
For Women Experiencing Spiritual Dryness — Rekindling the Flame. Each day sits beside a quoted line from a Christian writer across the centuries — kept in their own voice, with a quiet word-gloss underneath so the older language opens rather than closes.
- A 140-day slow return for the woman who has not lost her faith — just the feeling of it.
- No pressure to perform, no forced gratitude — just a gentle place for a dry season to settle.
- Designed so that when warmth finally returns, you are already in the right pages to meet it.
Seven stages across 140 days: Stage 1 — He Meets the Morning — Quietly · Stage 2 — Trusting God with It · Stage 3 — Standing on His Word · Stage 4 — Held Steady — The Middle · Stage 5 — Gentle Time Together with Him · Stage 6 — This Stretch · Stage 7 — The Walk Continues.
Seven stages, seven images. Dawn becomes open hands becomes a lamp becomes a mountain — then a vine, a stream, and finally an open door. The arc carries you forward by image, not by argument.
Inside these pages you will also find:
- Seven daily elements, every page — Opening, Reflect, Rest, Today's Focus, Touch, a quoted Scripture or Christian writer with a plain-English gloss, and a closing Meditation — one steady rhythm you learn once and return to for 140 days.
- Voices of trusted Christian writers, named and attributed — every quoted line carries its source — classic devotional and contemplative writers across the centuries — drawn from a curated corpus and selected to fit each journal's particular shape. No anonymous quotations.
- Every older line opened underneath — Scripture in the King James Version and classic Christian prose come with a plain-English word gloss directly under each quote — thy, thee, unto, communion — nothing stays out of reach.
- Real interludes between each section — Commentary, Poem, A Prayer for This Season, and a closing Reflection sit between each of the seven sections — full devotional rhythm, not just dividers.
- Written prayers from great writers — and space for your own — selected prayers from saints and faithful authors carry you forward, with A Prayer for This Season pages for your own words to come.
- A poem for every section — short, unhurried passages that carry the stage's feeling without preaching — small enough to remember, deep enough to return to.
Sample prompt: "Where did the shutting begin? There is no wrong answer — and no hurry."
Inspiration is a feeling. Formation is a structure. This is the structure.
You know the Bible you have opened so many times it falls open to the same passage, and the way nothing in you stirs when it does? Underneath is a quieter question — about whether the warmth has left you, or you have left the warmth, or whether something is happening that is neither of those. This journal sits with that quieter question. Five honest minutes a day. It does not try to make you feel something. It sits with you in the not-feeling, and slowly the dryness reveals itself as part of the deepening.
A 140-day slow return — designed for faith that is intact and feeling that is gone. Written for the woman whose Bible has stayed open while her heart went quiet. Open to day one.
What’s inside every day
Same daily rhythm, 140 days. One steady shape you learn once.
How it will feel
Rest. Sometimes dryness is exhaustion with a spiritual label. You do not have to fake being on fire. Be real. He prefers it. You do not have to manufacture feelings today. Show up. That is enough. Breathe. The dry season will not consume you. Others have walked it.
You say what you actually feel the first time. You stop bracing for the next thing before it has happened. The doubts come and you do not have to fight them. The day stops feeling like it is happening to you. Your feet move before you have to argue them into it. The shape of your day can quietly change you.
Built to form you — not just inspire you
Not Inspiration — Formation
This is not a devotional to read when inspired — it is a daily practice to return to regardless. Real faith is built through structured daily formation, not occasional motivation. Finishing this journal produces something that starting ten others cannot.
What This Journal Returns You To
- Rest in this: the peace of rekindling the flame is the peace of the honest returning before the cooling defines
- The faith that survives the desert is the faith that cannot be taken from you
- The person you are becoming will thank you for this study
Sample prompt: "What would it look like to replenished: what the faithful practice requires, on the days when the practice has drawn more than you had?"
A thoughtful gift
What this journal offers a friend is presence, not pressure. 140 days of gentle company that does not require them to be ready, only willing — the rare kind of gift that holds space rather than fills it. You who keep showing up in the dry season are the woman God is most at work in. Close this knowing the silence was not absence — it was preparation.
More in the 140-Day series
Devotional Journal for Teen GirlsWhen the Phone Keeps Winning
Devotional Journal for WomenWhen the Habits Still Hold
Prayer Journal for WomenWhen Every Month Ends
Devotional Journal for University WomenWhen Campus Tests Everything
Devotional Journal for Teen GirlsWhen 'Just Be Thankful' Feels
Devotional Journal for New BelieversWhen You Believed but the BibleAbout this journal’s author
Hayley Louisa Mark is the pen name under which Stilling Waves Press writes its reflective journals. The voice is quiet on purpose: these pages draw on Scripture and the older contemplative writers — Andrew Murray, François Fénelon, Thomas à Kempis — slowly read and set into a 140-day daily practice. Sixty-six journals share the same method: five honest minutes a day, one season at a time.
Published by Stilling Waves Press, creator of the 140-Day Reflective Devotional Series. Our journals are designed to be completed, not merely read — combining Scripture, reflection, and guided writing into a daily spiritual practice.
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