September 2011
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Change is in the air...
I woke up this morning to the smell of autumn, easily my favorite season of the four. I’ve always loved the drop in temperature, the smell of the crisp, clean air, the colors of the leaves changing in preparation for winter. This morning felt different, I knew that autumn was right around the corner, but it wasn’t just the nature turning into a new season I could feel a new...
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Gabby, God's Little Angel - Book Review
Gabby, God’s Little Angel written by Sheila Walsh and illustrated by Marina Fedotova is the sweet children’s story about Gabby, an accident prone angel who gets her first assignment from God for a little girl that is learning about how God is always protecting her. This book is very child friendly and is great for young kids, the message is broken down in a way that...
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Nobody'a Child- Where faith and ethics combine -...
Nobody’s Child By Austin Boyd Laura Ann McGeHee father is dieing and the farm that has passed down from generations is about to be lost because of medical bills, so Laura Ann decides to take things into her own hands, and not thinking about the future consequences she does what she can with the only financial resource she has available, herself. In a string of events Laura Ann, a...
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Win a custom made period dress ... and a KINDLE...
To celebrate the release of her debut novel, Fairer Than Morning, Rosslyn Elliott is giving away two fabulous prize packages.
The first is brand new KINDLE in her Fairer Than Morning Kindle Giveaway.
Then on September 20th she’s giving away a $200 gift certificate toward a Custom-Made Historical Reproduction Dress (from Recollections) during the Fairer Than Morning Book Club Chat Party on...
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A must read series to dive into! - Book Review
The Negotiator By: Dee Henderson
Someone is after Kate O’Malley. First a bank hold up and now a plane crash and Kate O’Malley has been pulled into both, being a hostage negotiator Kate knows the dangers that come with her job, and the people that she faces everyday, but this time will it be too much? With her name being thrown into the plane crash her unconventional family comes...
August 2011
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Sweet Story of Forgiveness - Book Review
Sweet Sanctuary by Shelia Walsh and Cindy Coloma is an amazing story of forgiveness and giving everything to God. The story follows Wren, and the struggles she faces that came about after a family reunion went terribly wrong and left her family just barely on speaking terms. Wren struggles with having to plan a party that will bring all the siblings together for the first time in...
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Book 4: Soul Harvest - Book Review
Soul Harvest By: Tim Lahaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
In the fourth book of the Left Behind series, the tribulation force has lost some of its numbers and also adds others to their rankings. After an earthquake ¼ of the population is gone taking with it members of the tribulation force, Amanda and Chloe are both missing and the home base for the tribulation force has been destroyed. Buck...
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Craving Grace by Lisa Velthouse - Book Review
Craving Grace By: Lisa Velthouse
Craving Grace by Lisa Velthouse was not what I expected. I am not sure what I was expecting, it may have been from my oversite on the cover of not seeing the fact this book was a memoir. The writing in this book is captivating and pulls you into the story, many of these instances any of us can relate too. Admittedly I struggle to get into this book in...
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"I'll be waiting, anticipating. All that I aim...
“I’ll be waiting, anticipating, All that I aim for, what I was made for, With every heartbeat all of my blood bleeds running inside me, I’m looking for you”
-Switchfoot, Restless
What are we all waiting for? I feel that everyday I am waiting for something, the next job offer, the next weekend, the next concert, the next month. I sit around and wait for tomorrow, for...
“When I stand before God at the end of my life…I would hope that I would...”
– Erma Bombeck
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I Don't Want to be Nice.
I Don’t Want to be Nice. Don’t worry, I don’t want to be mean either. Nice is a word used for puppies and pleasantries. Nice is a word you use when you don’t know what else to say. For a cool spring day, to describe some one you just met. Nice is not a way to show love.
Dictionary.com defines nice as ‘agreeable, delightful, pleasing, amiable, kind,...
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I want to love God with a ‘passionate...
What is love? What do we really understand about love? If you read my previous post you probably know where this is all coming from. Did you take the time to read 1 John 4? Stop what you are doing and read it. Yes, now. Take the time soak it into your brain.
Does that not just rock your world?? Just the smallest glimmer of what love is. Our culture has allowed us to romanticize love,...
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'You have my heart'
“ I love the way You hold me, by my side You’ll always be You take each and every day, make it special in some way” - Jamie Grace, Hold Me I have never been in love, but someday I want to be. I know that someday it will happen, but as I sit here and think about it, what do I really know about what love means/is? I want to be in love. Real love. The love that cannot be ...
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Nicolae - Book Review
Nicolae By: Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
The third installment of the Left Behind Series will have you on your toes. This book takes off where book 2 (The Tribulation Force) ends. Nicolae Carpethia, the antichrist has come to power and has begun bombing the major cities, includinig where the tribulation force meets. Through these bombing the tribulation force loses some of their team and...
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"You are beautiful because God created YOU for HIS...
“You are beautiful because God created YOU for HIS purpose!”
”Lucy…what have you done, child?” ”I don’t know. That was awful.” ”But you chose it, Lucy.” ”I didn’t mean to choose all of that, I just wanted to be beautiful like Susan. That’s all.” ”You wished yourself away. And with it, much more. Your brothers and sister wouldn’t know Narnia without you, Lucy. You...
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Running Full Speed after God
We are in the midst of that time of year. Some dread it, some love it, some celebrate it, and some do all three. Don’t know what time of year I am referring too? If you are a girl you do. It is wedding season, and whether you are in the wedding, going to the wedding or just creeping on facebook looking at the daily postings of wedding photos you feel it too, and you are asking the...
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PrayerWalk - Book Review
PrayerWalk:
Becoming a Women of Prayer, Strength & Discipline By: Janet Holm McHenry Struggling to find time to prayer? Getting distracted by your everyday list of things you need to do? Feeling bad because you aren’t active enough, wanting to stay healthy and fit? Janey Holm McHenry has the perfect...
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“I wanna be the one who knows everything about you
I wanna be the one who’s...”
– Francesca Battistelli 