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Tis the Season Advent Devotional, Day 13

JOY: Everlasting

And the ransomed of the Lord will return And come with joyful shouting to Zion, With everlasting joy upon their heads. They will find gladness and joy, And sorrow and sighing will flee away.
(Isaiah 35:10, NASB95)

~robin

Tis the Season Advent Devotional, Day 12

LOVE: mercy

God’s mercy is His overflowing, active compassion and is freely exercised, excluding all ideas of merit on the part of its object. Oh how He loves you and me.

~robin

Tis the Season Advent Devotional, Day 11

LOVE: Provider

I have everything in full. I am amply supplied. My God supplies everything I need through His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

~robin

Tis the Season Advent Devotional, Day 10

LOVE: Omniscient

Our God is omniscient, all-knowing, all-wise, all-seeing. He sees and knows me, and Heloves me (despite what He knows and sees). Amazing love!!! (Psalm 31:7)

~robin

The Joyful Part of Writing: Friends

You gotta have friends

In my last blog post, I asked the question, “Does writing a novel ever get easier?”In it, I shared some of the miseries and craziness that goes on in a writer’s head and/or life.

This time, I want to share one of the joys: Other writers.

On Monday I returned from the 14th annual brainstorming retreat that I have been a part of from the start. I have bloggedbefore about how these brainstorming retreats work. (And please don’t confuse brainstorming with plotting. Althoug...

Does Writing a Novel Ever Get Easier?

Three weeks ago, I hit the Send key on my computer, and away went my latest manuscript to my editor (as well as to my agent). Trust me, sending in a manuscript is a fearful moment for me. I am too aware that I haven’t achieved all that I’d hoped to achieve when I first began writing the story.

My agent and I just celebrated our 27th “anniversary,” and if there is one thing I know about this brilliant woman, it is that she will be brutally honest with me about a book’s strengths and weaknesses...

Kelli Stuart & 6 Random Things (with a giveaway)

Kelli Stuart is a storyteller at heart with an affinity for languages, travel, and history. She is fluent in the Russian language, and has spent the last twenty years researching the effects of World War II on the former Soviet Union. Kelli’s first novel, Like a River From its Course,is an epic story of war, love, grief, and redemption set in World War II Soviet Ukraine. It released in June 2016. Kelli lives in Tampa, Florida with her husband and four children.

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Large Print Inspire Bible: A Review

Back in February of this year, I was delighted to do a video review of the original Inspire Bible. I have thoroughly enjoyed the timeI have spent, meditating on Scripture while doing creative journaling in the Inspire, and I did another video after six weeks of Bible art journalingin it.

Now it is my pleasure to share my thoughts on the new “Big Sister” (aka Large Print) version of the Inspire Bible for creative journaling.

A side by side comparison

When the original is placed on top of the l...

Donn Taylor & 6 Random Things (with a giveaway)

DonnTaylor led an Infantry rifle platoon in the Korean War, served with Army aviation in Vietnam, and worked with air reconnaissance in Europe and Asia. Afterwards, he earned a PhD in Englishliterature (Renaissance) and for eighteen years taught literature at two liberal arts colleges. His poetry is collected in his bookDust and Diamond: Poems of Earth and Beyond. His fiction includes a light-hearted mystery,Rhapsody in Red, and its sequel,Murder Mezzo Forte. He has also published a historica...

Kristy Cambron & 6 Random Things (with a giveaway)

Kristy Cambron has a background in art and design, but she fancies life as a vintage-inspired storyteller. She is the author of The Ringmaster’s Wife, named to Publishers Weekly Spring 2016 Religion & Spirituality TOP 10 and set for release on June 7, 2016 from HarperCollins Christian Publishing (Thomas Nelson). Her novels have been named to Library Journal Reviews’ Best Books and RT Reviewers’ Choice Awards Best lists, and received a 2015 INSPY Awards nomination for best debut novel. Kristy...