Francine Rivers's Blog, page 20
July 11, 2014
Redeeming Love - The Movie
I’ve been waiting a long time to share the news that Redeeming Love will be made into a movie. It was an announcement that needed to come from Cantinas Entertainment first before I could jump in and start talking about it. Over the years, my agent has fielded numerous offers to make the novel into a movie, but none was the right fit until now. Our agreement keeps me in the loop.
July 4, 2014
In Celebration of the Fourth of July
“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.”
(George Washington)
June 27, 2014
Benefits of being a latch-key kid
In the 50s, when I was in grade school, my mom was one of the very few mothers who worked outside the home. Back then, I wished my mom could be like other mothers. I envied the friends who didn’t walk into an empty house. Mom was a nurse, Dad a police officer, both very responsible. There was always an emergency plan in place. We knew who to call and where to go in case of trouble. There was never a question of whether my brother and I were safe. They always made sure of that.
June 19, 2014
Steamboat paddle-wheeling up the Mississippi
Last year, we booked another bucket list dream trip, this time for a Mississippi River cruise on the American Queen. Last week, we flew with friends, Mac and Loretta, to New Orleans a day ahead of embarkation. Loretta knows good food and where to find it, and we said please make reservations wherever she wanted to go. We ended up in the Garden District at the Commander’s Palace and ate like royalty.
June 5, 2014
Close Calls
We all have close calls, those times when we know we have come face to face with eternity. Our heart rate skyrockets and adrenalin kicks in to reaction quickly. Sometimes we look back and wonder how we survived our childhood, considering the dangerous risks we took just for the fun of it. Sometimes we look back and see how we were plucked out of situations that could have ended disastrously.
May 28, 2014
Mom's Night Out
I have learned through experience not to trust movie critics. If I listen and go to a movie that receives their thumbs up and rave reviews, I inevitably come home wanting to take a shower and kicking myself for wasting $10 on a ticket.
May 23, 2014
Mouse Tales
My father-in-law called me “Mouse Protector” or “MP” for short. Why? Because I sprang the traps he set up to catch a mouse that ventured into the family fruit bowl and took a tiny bite out of an apple. The poor mouse had to eat, too, didn’t he? Dad Bill gave me mouse gifts for Christmas each year; a mouse in a boot to hold toothpicks, a mouse curled up sleeping.
May 9, 2014
Boko Haram
A month ago, Boko Haram terrorists stormed a secondary school in the village of Chibok near the Cameroon border and kidnapped over 200 girls. Other attacks and kidnappings have gone on since then in the village of Warabe in the Borno state of north-eastern Nigeria as well as other places in the country. Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, boasted in a recent video, “There is a market for selling humans…”
May 2, 2014
Sailing Around the Horn
Rick’s grandfather sailed around the Horn on a windjammer in 1905. It was the roughest year in recorded history, and took the crew 90 days to accomplish the task. The mast broke, sails ripped, and they had to make numerous slips into the coast to make repairs before trying again. Grandpa went to sea at ten years of age, and became a professional sailor at fourteen. He was small in stature, but had a lion’s heart. When ropes tangled in the rigging, they sent Klaus up to get things right.
April 25, 2014
Favorite Characters in Bridge to Haven
First I will set aside the main characters because I always tend to fall in love with the leading men; in this case, Zeke and Joshua who are both strong men of God. I loved Abra, too, because she was like a wayward daughter, a friend lost in the wilderness, a child crying in the darkness.
