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Writing Contest: Bedtime Story

[image error]One of the best ways to get your creative juices flowing is to use a a picture, a situation, or an opening line as the starting point for a story or essay. Aggie Villanueva at Visual Arts Junction has created a writing contest that invites you to look at Bedtime Story, the photo art on the left, and write a 500 word story or essay inspired by it.

Aggie has asked me to be a judge, and I'm looking forward to reading lots of creative entries. There are Professional and Amateur categories, so...

Scripture for the Fifth Wednesday in Lent

"Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and...

Scripture for the Fourth Tuesday in Lent

One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be healed?" The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me." Jesus said to him, "Get up, take up your bed, and walk." And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the...

Review: An Axe to Grind

An Axe to Grind

F.M. Meredith

Oak Tree Press

January 2010

Paperback, 178 pages, $12.95

Also available in Kindle edition

Crime fiction

This is the first book I've read in the Rocky Bluff P.D. series, but after reading An Axe to Grind, I intend to read the rest of the series. I want to know what happened to bring the characters to where they are now. Though Rocky Bluff is a fictional location, the town and the people seem very real.

If you like to read while you're eating, as I do, you might want...

Scripture for the Fourth Monday in Lent

So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill. When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. So Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe." The official said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies." Jesus said to him, "Go; your son will live." The man believed the...

Scripture for the Fourth Sunday in Lent

Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it? And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.' Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents." ~ Luke 15:8-10 (ESV) 

Thank You, Lord, that You care for me as if I were Your only child. You rejoice over me as the...

Scripture for the Fourth Saturday in Lent

He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: "Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.' But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his...

Read an E-Book Week Coming to an End

Tomorrow is the last day to download free or discounted e-books for Read an E-Book Week .

You can find all my books on my Smashwords page .

I've been intrigued by the number of times different books have been downloaded as of early Friday morning. The books I'm giving away are listed below in order of popularity so far this week:

Trapped by Love: A Novelette—a short romance that is always free Fern's Fancies—contemporary romanceDream or Destiny—romantic mysteryStroke of Luck—contemporary...

Scripture for the Fourth Friday in Lent

And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, "Which commandment is the most important of all?" Jesus answered, "The most important is, 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' The second is this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment...

Scripture for the Fourth Thursday in Lent

Now he was casting out a demon that was mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke, and the people marveled. But some of them said, "He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of demons," while others, to test him, kept seeking from him a sign from heaven. But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and a divided household falls. And if Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I...