You finished the journal.

Now what? Three things, depending on where the practice has left you. You don’t have to do all three. Pick the one that meets you where you are right now.

1. If you want to keep the practice going — without committing to another 140 days

Some readers finish a journal and want something smaller for the in-between. A short companion. Seven days of stillness — sent to your inbox, one passage a morning. The same voice. The same slow shape. No new journal to buy.

2. If you’re ready for the next 140 days

The journals are written for specific seasons, not as a series you read in order. The right next journal is the one that matches the season you’re moving into now — which may not be the season the last journal was for.

The full catalogue is grouped two ways: by who you are right now (teen girls, women in their 40s, engaged couples, women in ministry, grandmothers, women living with chronic illness) and by what you’re working through (rekindling the flame, cultivating gratitude, finding strength during difficult seasons, learning to study scripture, creating a daily prayer discipline).

If the last journal helped you, the most useful thing you can do is browse one of those two paths and let the right next-journal find you. Don’t grab the first one — wait for one whose description recognises something true about today.

3. If you want to read while you wait

There are fifty short essays in the same contemplative voice as the journals — written for the in-between moments before, during, and after a 140-day practice. Some readers use them as a daily after-finishing supplement. Some pick one when a specific season returns (the anxious morning, the dry stretch, the day a relationship is hard).

The essays are grouped by pillar — journal how-to, bible-study methods, life-event prayers, Christian self-care and quiet time, for specific readers, Advent and Lent. Or just browse all fifty.

A note from the editors

The journals you’ve read are written in a particular tradition — Andrew Murray, Thomas à Kempis, Madame Guyon, Fenelon, Spurgeon, the older devotional voice that takes its time. We make them because nobody else is making them for women’s specific 140-day seasons, and because the contemporary devotional market has, in our reading, drifted toward pep where it might once have offered depth.

If the voice is one you want to keep with you, the free Seven Days companion is the lightest way to do that. If the next journal is what you want, take the time to find the right one. And if it’s the essays you want, they are there — slowly written, freely given, designed to wait for you.

— The editors at Everspring Press