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Farewell 2017

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Yes, it is true. We are counting down the days until the end of 2017. Don’t ask me how it got here so fast. I thought I would use this post to share two highlights from my 2017. HIGHLIGHT #1 Back in 2004, I started asking the Lord for a word for the coming year. It has become a wonderful part of my spiritual journey, although I wasn’t real keen on the year my word was “persevere.” <g>  … [Read more...]

New Book Release with a Giveaway

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  You're Gonna Love Me My latest release, You're Gonna Love Me, arrived on bookstore shelves yesterday. I'm so excited to get to introduce it to readers at last. This is the second book set in Thunder Creek, Idaho, a community that came to mean a lot to me as I wrote these novels. CBA Market had this to say about You’re Gonna Love Me: “Fearful of risk-taking, Samantha finds dating an … [Read more...]

A Thanksgiving Blessing

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Earlier this week, a friend shared a Dennis Prager video about The Key to Unhappiness. It's short, under 5 minutes, and very worth watching. But I'll give you the "key" in a nutshell. Ungrateful people are unhappy people. Grateful people are happy people. And I believe that is very, very true. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=xxmORnnP3WI A number of years ago, I heard a … [Read more...]

insanity is in their hearts

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It's An Insane World We Live In The hearts of the sons of men are full of evil, and insanity is in their hearts throughout their lives. (Eccl. 9:3) Last Sunday brought another mass shooting, this time in a small church in a tiny town in Texas. I heard on the news that the death toll equaled 7% of the population of the town. Our hearts cry, How can someone do that, Lord? But we know how. We know … [Read more...]

Gratitude Documented Challenge

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November is nearly upon us, and this year I plan to document my gratitude in my faith planner (with an occasional excursion into my journaling Bible). My goal is to every day write down at least one thing for which I am thankful. I have been using my faith planner for daily Scripture writing (see large version of example at left here), but I decided to take a break from that for the 30 days … [Read more...]

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