Each year I look over the books I reviewed and choose the ones I enjoyed most and remember even after I finished the book. Today I choose the fiction book. I chose this one because it was more than a romance. It was a message, an invitation by the author to draw into a relationship…
I’ve been enjoying Ruth’s story from the Bible with a twist—Jennifer Slattery is facilitating this study on FB and her blog sharing against the backdrop of her own contemporary romance Beyond I Do. Last week she was kind enough to open up her blog to allow me to share insights. It’s a chapter in the…
They say when you reach the end of your life, memories play back like snapshots. Images of your first best friend, your first doll house, your first day of school … your first surprise birthday party. I was five or six, young enough to have little concept of time, when my parents decided…
Marriage . . . it’s more than a happily ever after. Eternally more. Ainsley Meadows, raised by a hedonist mother who cycles through jobs and relationships like wrapping paper on Christmas morning, falls into a predictable and safe relationship with Richard, a self-absorbed, socialite psychiatrist….
It started with a burning passion, an urge to do, that arose so strong, you felt you’d explode. So, with heart-felt surrender, you knelt at His alter and responded, “Here I am, Lord! Send me!” But then life hit with its obstacles and setbacks and suddenly that clear call began to grow dim, muddled by…