Hot Days of Summer
July is almost gone and we are in the middle of the hot days of summer. It doesn't seem so long ago that we were fighting the blustery winds of winter. It reminds me that no matter where we are on the calendar year or in the season of our life, that there are challenges. We need to learn to just keep on going.
Look for the good things in your life. Watch for the kindness of God in your life.
When I spoke to the Stonecroft Women's group in Dodge City one of the cute little favors at my plate was a paper doll with an orange flavored Tootsie Roll Pop attached. (My favorite!!!) I took it as a little kiss from God. I mentioned this to the group in my speech and when I got to my spot at the table there were 6 of them stuck inside my Bible. That was way too sweet and I cried.
Another big kindness of God was that I was assigned the conceptual editor that I had for Elk's Resolve. What a blessing! I am so happy about that.
I also am blessed to be acquainted with some very special author friends. I learn from them every day. I want to intoduce you to one of my newest friends, Janie Wilkins
1.My name is Janie Wilkins, and my book is "Janie's Unbelievable Journey: Inspirational Letters written along the Way."
2. I think my readers would
like to know that my faith in
God has enabled me to
overcome obstacles along
life's highway and to succeed
in helping students to grow
and learn and believe in themselves.
3.A Methodist minister told
me that I have a story to tell,
and God commanded me to
tell my story to help others
and to teach and inspire.
4.My strong points, according
to my own children and those
who know me best are that I
write from the heart, as I feel
led by God and that when one reads my stories and letters
that it is as if I were talking to them. This is my style as well.
5. I love to read, and I have read everything I could get my
hands on that is about real people. I love non-fiction
and history best of all.
6. I just completed reading
Max Lacado's "Traveling Light," which is on our United Methodist Women's reading
list.
7.My memoir is in two volumes, and volume two will be out
shortly after volume one is released.
8.My biggest obstacles to
writing are time, time, time, always. When I was
completing my manuscript
initially, I found that I had
to set goals and stay up
until I met the goal I had set. Since I had sponsored
school yearbooks most of
my working years, I applied
some of the rules and guidelines we established
to meet deadlines.
9. "Janie's Unbelievable
Journey: Inspirational
Letters Written along the
Way" is a true story of life
as a wife, mother and
educator. It lets the reader
know that we can accomplish
our dreams if we believe in ourselves and never give up!
You will want to read this
memoir to see how Janie
overcame obstacles to raise
three extraordinary adult
children the last one as a single parent.
10. Readers may contact me at Janiew3@aol.com or at my publisher at www.tatepublishing.com/bookstore
or at 888 361 9473
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