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READ THE FIRST THREE CHAPTERS OF "DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT"

The experience of getting a book published resembles childbirth in many ways--you conceive an idea, labor over it and carry it along to fruition, and then you anticipate the day you will catch your first glimpse of it and hold it in your hands. It sounds like a ridiculous exaggeration, but to an author, it's pretty close, and today I was sent the final cover. I think it's gorgeous!

It will still be a few weeks before we'll be able to handle a copy, or see it on a book store shelf, but I've...

HOUSTON, WE HAVE A FINAL COVER!!!!

The experience of getting a book published resembles childbirth in many ways--you conceive an idea, labor over it and carry it along to fruition, and then you anticipate the day you will catch your first glimpse of it and hold it in your hands. It sounds like a ridiculous exaggeration, but to an author, it's pretty close. I've been posting mock-ups of the cover design of my new book, Dawn's Early Light, as it comes along, but today I was sent the final cover , and I think it's gorgeous!

It will...

Another Testament of Christ Slideshow

I woke up to find this beautiful gift in my inbox. It's another tender slideshow from the Reflections of Christ Project--"Another Testament" illustrating Christ's ante-mortal visit to the Nephites, reminding us anew that He loves and is aware of all of His children, and that no sparrow falls to the earth without His knowledge.

Copyright 2009 Laurie LC Lewis, (To obtain permission to copy or reprint any portion of this post, please contact the author at lclewis2007@gmail.com)

Progress!!

Writing a book parallels the experience of childbirth in many ways. You carry the project along, labor to bring it to fruition, and then you wait with great anticipation for the first glimpse of your "baby". Well, I'm soon to deliver my newest . . . Dawn's Early Light, and you can catch a glimpse of it on my website. Please visit, take a look at the progressing cover and read the first three chapters. We haven't yet cut the cord on this one . . . there's another round of editing to do, but th...

SITTING IN THE COMFORTER'S CHAIR

It's been a book theme I've visited a few times, almost always brought back to my attention when the illness or recuperation of a loved one places me back in that place again.

We've all been there, at the bedside of an ailing loved one, often times running to and fro on errands of support and entertainment more than sitting and offering quiet compassion. Both are critical to the patient patient. But that chair becomes ever more sacred in those hours of pain and fear, when only the trusted com...

WHY I CAN'T BE "GLEE-ful ABOUT "GLEE" ANYMORE

I am in a rare minority--people who can no longer applaud and recommend Fox's debut musical hit, "Glee". I watched the pilot, and like most viewers, I fell in love with the music and the "Phoenix-like triumph of nerds and misfits" storyline. I was so busy toe-tapping and regressing back to my own sweet high-school choir days that I overlooked some questionable plot elements. So last week I Tivo-ed the show and I finally got around to watching it last night. I didn't even finish it. That's how...

Finding Hope

A beautiful perspective. We are not victims as long as we have Christ to lean on.

A DAY OF UNITY AND PRAYER

(Amended as my daughter Amanda added details to my ragged memories.)

I remember the impressions of that day so well, but the memories are not so clear, jumbled up in emotion rather than logic. Who could have known what that beautiful day would bring--the crisp bright sky with beaming sun-rays piercing the morning. School was back in session, but I had left my position with the school system at the end of the previous school year and this fall was the beginning of a less-complicated, more peac...

WIN A COPY OF THIS STIRRING NOVEL!!!

September 10, 2009
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MY KINDA LOGIC

I have an eighty-year-old aunt, (bless her heart) who sends me little forwards all the time. I saved this one. It must have been one of those days, you know? Read on . . . you'll see.

Recently, in a large French city, a poster featuring a young, thin and tan woman appeared in the window of a gym. It said: THIS SUMMER DO YOU WANT TO BE A MERMAID OR A WHALE?

A middle aged woman, whose physical characteristics did not match those of the woman on the poster, responded publicly to the question pose...