Inspirational Romance Author

Happy New Year!

Okay, so half the month is gone and I'm just getting around to posting my New Year's wishes.  I'm still happy and it's a New Year. :)  Hope you're all having the most wonderfully blessed year of your lives.

This time of year is dismal enough with the winter weather but add to it the removal of all the beautiful decorations we've enjoyed for the past month and it's even gloomier.  Some people are glad to see their decorations go but never me.  Then again, I suppose I wouldn't like them as much if I had to look at them every day of the year.

I've been trying to be more organized as I put things away this year so I don't do seek and find next Christmas but so far it's not going well.  I think we all start out with the best of intentions and then hit melt down fast and becomes a matter of getting it back in the boxes.

The holidays were wonderful.  Time spent with family and friends is great though I did get a less than friendly visit from one of the cold bugs that has been foisting themselves off on people this year.

I haven't done much writing over the holidays but the writer in me is ever present.  Back in December, our choir performed what I'm claiming as the ultimate writer's cantata.  I certainly will say that my thought was 'I wish I'd written that one' quite a few times.  In one song, when the soloist sang "skin so newly his" in regards to Jesus' birth, I was reminded of just how precious every newborn infant is but particularly this infant who came to die for my sins. No greater gift will this world ever know. 

Another song spoke of ink filling oceans and the sky becoming parchment and neither being enough to write of God's love for us. Let me tell you, this writer has never heard more powerful words.

 My prayer is that each and every one of you experience the joy of Jesus in your lives this year.  I pray that God gives you peace, love and joy all year long. I thank those of you who have read my books. I thank my editors who have worked with me to make those books even better.