While our nation is on the cusp of change, today I wanted to take a few minutes to thank our veterans for their service to our country. I salute you! I appreciate your time. Your service. Your sacrifice. Your loyalty to a nation whose freedoms we often taken for granted. As history rewrites itself, above all, we must remember those …
Happy 4th of July!
Today, I was set to do a follow-up post to Monday’s Are Critique Partners Necessary? With it being a holiday, however, I’ve decided to take today off and save Part Two until Friday. I’d like to mention just a few quick things: *Tonya Ashley, you’re my June blog giveaway winner. Congratulations! Please contact me soon with your mailing info so I can …
Celebrating This Great Nation
Today I’m thanking God for freedom in Christ and for the many freedoms we have in this great nation of the United States of America. These are blessings that I don’t take for granted. I pray today you are celebrating these things, as well, and enjoying this holiday with your loved ones. We celebrated some Independence Day activities with family …
Let Freedom Ring
Pollyanna or not, there are certain things that bother me. Here are a few: those that don’t remove their hats and caps in church, unnecessary rudeness to people, lack of common courtesies, and remaining seated during our National Anthem. Would you believe, I’ve been at ballgames before where folks actually stayed glued to their seats gobbling their hot dogs and …
A Nation Blessed
I was thanking God today for many things: Jesus, family, the freedom to worship, this great nation we live in. Something as simple as writing this is a freedom I don’t take lightly either. Freedom of speech to a writer is like having oxygen to breathe. I try to write responsibly with vision and purpose and with the Great Commission …