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  • God Has A Wonderful Plan For Your Life!

    In researching the theme of regret for my book, I learned that a whole lot of us carry regrets about the choices we make as we launch into adulthood. At that stage, we’rebuilding our lives via both relationships and educational/career choices. Every time we make a decision to take a step in one direction, we close the door on…

  • Two Wildly Different, Strangely Similar Books Asking One Question: Who Am I?

    It’s complicated. No, that’s not a Facebook update on my relationship status.* Recently, I wrote a short bit as part of a group post for the Her.meneutics blog about the need to embrace complexity in our understanding of maturing faith. There’s complexity, then there’s the borderlands just beyond complexity. Those lands have names like Chaos, Confusion, and…

  • Independence Day At A Central IL Cemetery

    A few weeks ago, I wrote a short post here about the graveyard that abuts the property on which our small townhome/apartment development was built. Every time I visit these strangers, I realize how much I want to visit the graves of my own family members. Some are buried in a swampy Jewish cemetery in south Florida.…

  • Blog Tour Finish Line / A Look Ahead

    Aleah Marsden offers a review, a remembrance and a reflection – all in one witty post at DepthOfTheRiches.com. And wise friend Judy Allen reviews If Only atConnectingDotsToGod.com. And Leslie Sholly is running a give-away in conjunction with her thoughts about her if only’s at Life In Every Limb. You can check out the earlier pit stops on…

  • It’s not a give-away, it’s a “gift away”

    You know that “Five Love Languages” thing? Those books and seminars that tell you how you and those you know are wired to demonstrate and receive love? Well, according to the little quiz in the back of the very first book written in the series, one of my primary love languages is gift giving. I’ll buy…

  • Blog Tour Redux: Week Deux

    The blog tour for If Only: Letting Go Of Regret continued this past week, and will wrap up the middle of next week. Today, a recap of the sweet middle of this journey `round the web talking about regret, redemption and renewal. Check out these sweet links, including one that is hosting a way for you to…