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What would entice you to part with two dollar bills? Doesn’t seem like much money theses days. Back when I was a kid – that has been a few years ago – you could buy a candy bar for a nickel and six candy bars for a quarter at our country store. Note, I remember what candy bars cost because …
Let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them; let all the trees of the forest sing for joy.” (Psalm 96:12 NIV) I love the springtime. I love all the seasons. Well, in the middle of February when the cold wind is blowing and the sun has hidden its face behind clouds for days, then I admit to being a …
Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It’s the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps. ~Sharon Draper Do you have a place where you feel happy? A place that gives you happy moments? If you knew where such a place is, how often …
Once upon a time several years ago, I think before my first inspirational novel, Scent of Lilacs, was published, I played with the idea of writing a book of devotions for the casual hiker. I hoped to come up with fifty-two, one a week. Devotional Thoughts for Hikers. Well, I might have needed a better title than that. I wrote a dozen …
Our crazy English language. In America we’ve borrowed words from everybody and twisted and turned them to make them our own. I’ve heard people say that English can be a hard language to learn because a lot of time it doesn’t make sense. Take the word love. In some languages there are different words for different kinds of love. Our …
Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It’s all funny. Next. Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things. Joan Rivers Have you ever been in a spot where everything seems to go wrong at the very worst time? You’ve prepared. You’re ready to do your best. You may be excited about what’s happening and then things start going …
Welcome to the Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt! If you’ve just discovered the hunt, be sure to start at Stop #1, and collect the clues through all 27 stops, in order, so you can enter to win one of our top 5 grand prizes! The hunt BEGINS on 3/14 at noon MST (3 p.m. EST) with Lisa Bergren’s Stop #1. Hunt …
Have you ever been on a scavenger hunt? Back when I was a kid, my mother would sometimes do a scavenger hunt for our Easter treats. Other times, my sisters, cousins and I would make up scavenger hunts just for fun. I don’t remember if we had a prize at the end, but the fun was in figuring out the …
Today I’m turning my spot here over to my writing friend, Cynthia Herron, whose first novel, Her Hope Discovered, was just released. I had the privilege of being one of her early readers and enjoyed getting to know the characters in the little town of Ruby. Now we get to peek behind the scenes at her inspiration for the story. Make …
I had such fun reading the “how we met” stories that many of you sent in when you entered my Valentine month giveaway. Churches were a hot spot for finding a sweetheart. Next were workplaces and schools, but the best thing about many of the stories is that the love lasted. Here are three stories where the beginning was not …