Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King
In honor of Martin Luther King day, January 21, 2019
Journey Into the Lives of Women, One Story at a Time.
More Cover Reveals: The Sum of Its Parts and A Home for the Holidays
My wonderful editor contacted me this week to tell me that my publisher will be reissuing another of my older books as an eBook.
While I have the rights to many of my back list novels, my publisher still has rights to a few. The original title of the one she was interested in was A Stranger’s Son, and if you read the book, you’ll know why.
Sunday Inspiration: Rest and Self-Care
“Rest and self-care are so important.
When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow.
You cannot serve from an empty vessel.” -Eleanor Brownn
Cover Reveal: A Family of Strangers
This has been such a busy couple of months. They’ve gone something like this:
After I finished writing A Family of Strangers (Mira June 2019) I took a glorious three week trip to Europe and Africa.
I came home with bronchitis and took a three week break from doing everything except coughing and eating soup.
Sunday Inspiration: How the Light Comes
While this lovely poem is a blessing meant for Christmas day, I think it’s wonderfully appropriate for the new year, too, and throughout the year. A friend posted it on Facebook and I loved it immediately.
How the Light Comes
A Blessing for Christmas Day
I cannot tell you
how the light comes.
Wish Upon a Star for 2019
I’m at Disney World with my family celebrating our “big” wedding anniversary, as well as all the other end and beginning of the year holidays.
Considering where I am, I’m allowed to be a little corny today. So for 2019, in the words of Jiminy Cricket:
When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are
Anything your heart desires
Will come to you,
If your heart is in your dream
No request is too extreme
When you wish upon a star
As dreamers do
Fate is kind
She brings to those who love
The sweet fulfillment of
Their secret longing
Like a bolt out of the blue
Suddenly, it comes to you
When you wish upon a star
Your dreams come true
My husband (who often does Sunday Inspiration here) and I wish each of you a year filled with many, many good things as well as the courage and wisdom to face whatever else comes your way.
Announcing Our January 2019 Reading Challenge Selection
Happy 2019 everyone!
My real New Year post is tomorrow, but since this is the first day of the 2019 Reading Challenge, I wanted to post the January category today.
You can find out more about the challenge here. The discussion each month will happen at the Read Along With Emilie Richards Facebook Group, but if you don’t want to join us there, I’ll announce each month’s category here at Southern Exposure, so you can read with us if you like.
Sunday Inspiration: Mother Teresa
The words below are especially important to me since they were found written on the wall in Mother Teresa’s Home for Children, and our daughter Jessie was one of the children in that home when we adopted her exactly forty years ago.
These words also make heartfelt resolutions for the coming year.
Reading Challenge 2018: Time for Congratulations
You ask why am I congratulating you?
Maybe you only read a couple of books on the reading list, then abandoned the challenge way back in February as too time consuming.
Maybe you read the categories that appealed to you but wouldn’t be caught dead reading:
- A time travel novel
- A young adult novel
- A travelogue
And maybe you just wore out a few categories away from the finish line.
Sunday Inspiration: “The Work of Christmas”
When the song of the angels is stilled,
When the star in the sky is gone,
When the kings and princes are home,
When the shepherds are back with their flock,
The work of Christmas begins:
To find the lost,
To heal the broken,
To feed the hungry,
To release the prisoner,
To rebuild the nations,
To bring peace among brothers,
To make music in the heart.