Yesterday was National Random Acts of Kindness Day. A lot of stories I’ve read are about the problems between characters who aren’t being kind to each other. That’s where the tension comes in. But this month, after hosting a two-week Countdown to Valentine’s event, my mind has been on things that show kindness. I suppose […]
How Do You Respond to Adversity?… plus #giveaway
Ever have a day (week? month? year?) when Murphy’s law kicks in? Everything that could possibly go wrong… just did. Sure, there might’ve been a pleasant moment or two in there as well, but it seems those were only in there to get your hopes up so they could be crushed again! As much as […]
Gemstone or pebble?
About this time of year, many of us are thinking how we haven’t done so well with what we hoped or intended for the shiny new year! I didn’t make New Year’s Resolutions, but I did set some intentions. God also gave me a word for the year. This year’s is “discipline”. LOL, I’ve flunked […]
Herein is Love… (and #Giveaway)
Suddenly, it’s February. Valentine’s Day is almost here. So I felt like I need to talk about…LOVE! As an author of Christian Romance (and Christian Romantic Suspense, but that’s outside the scope of this blog), I keep in mind that, at the end of the day, I am writing about two people falling in love […]
When Life Gives You Lemons + #giveaway
Life here has been a bit of a challenge this past year. In September, my mom lost her nine-year battle with ovarian cancer. We’d known it was coming – she’d been declining since February and started to slide quickly at the end of summer. But it still hit hard. I don’t know that there’s anything […]
What Resolutions?
And here we are. It’s already eleven days into 2019, friends. Some will say “Hooray!” and some will say “Yikes!” Have you executed your new year resolution yet? Or did you decide to not have any new year resolution this time around? Even though I like checklists, the one thing I try to avoid at […]
A New Year, A New Me
It’s January 3, 2019. How many times have you written 2018 on something in the last three days? Since I’m writing this before the New Year–I have big plans to binge watch some shows, rest, and write prior to this post going live–I probably have only done it a handful of times, especially since I […]
Unexpected Blessings
When was the last time you received an unexpected blessing? I hope all of you had a nice Christmas. I received a very wonderful unexpected blessing recently. I’m an accountant and financial analyst at my day job for a non-profit company. When we had our annual holiday party, it was announced that our company would […]
What is love?
There’s this word in Hebrew that transliterates into English as ruah with a guttural “ch” sound at the end. Ruah can be translated into many English words, but it’s most commonly translated as wind, breathe, and spirit. It’s used throughout the Old Testament, and it conveys this amazing imagery. Ruah is the breath of God, […]
The TRUE Meaning of Christmas
Confession: Until this year, I’ve never watched Hallmark Christmas movies at Christmas time. Not for lack of desire–we’re just cheap and don’t have cable. (A little antenna outside gets us a few local channels, but that’s it.) But this year, I decided to splurge. We have a new “smart” TV that has SLING on it, […]