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Star Wars movie and VIP Writers’ Day

I hope you had a blessed Christmas with your family and friends. We had all our children and grandchildren over for Christmas Eve dinner here at our house; on Christmas Eve, Ray, Heather and Leah traveled to Texas to visit Ray’s mom Judy and stepdad Leonard.

I didn’t go this time, but stayed home and prayed, ate Mexican, read, and watched chic flics…don’t you feel sorry for me, lol? I’ll try to post pics this week of our family Christmas together. 

One of the gifts I bought Ray for Christmas was tickets to see the new Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens. He’s been talking about seeing it for weeks.

I also bought him a Star Wars, “The Force Awakens,” t-shirt (he wore it to see the movie today, too!). 

Ray in his Star Wars t-shirt

Ray in his Star Wars t-shirt

This isn’t a spoiler alert, but I’ll just say I thought the original Star Wars movie was MUCH better (aren’t they all?). But we had fun going out.

Ray & me at new Star Wars movie

Ray & me at new Star Wars movie
The Force Awakens

 

Ray & Leah at Star Wars movie The Force Awakens

Ray & Leah at Star Wars movie
The Force Awakens

I loved the white lights on the trees there at the shopping center. 

white lights on trees in the snow

white lights on trees in the snow

white lights on trees

white lights on trees

By the theatre the sidewalk had these words engraved: “May the force be with you.” I snapped a pic of Ray standing by the words. My prayer is that in 2016, the force of God’s power, authority, and anointing will be with and upon Ray! Amen!

Ray--May God's force be with you and upon you in 2016!

Ray–May God’s force be with you and upon you in 2016!

Are you ready for 2016?

Meanwhile, tomorrow I’m planning to go through our house and my office office, organizing, sorting, throwing away, and filing things to prepare for 2016.

Image by surasakiStock at FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Image by surasakiStock at FreeDigitalPhotos.net

I’m also gearing up with aspiring authors for my VIP Writers’ Day on January 5, 2016 at 10 a.m. Central Time. If you want 2016 to be your best, most productive writing year yet, join us!

If you can’t make the live virtual event, the call will be recorded and the replay emailed to you. I’m also offering a private Facebook group for writers for support and motivation, and a downloadable PDF with a list of the resources I’ve personally used to write my 10 books. To learn more, just click here.

December 30, 2015 by
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The Cinderella Story: The Power of Dreams

The Cinderella Story: The Power of Dreams

Do you have a big dream(s) in your heart? What do you need to do to make them happen? First, you have to believe in the power of your dreams. Then you have to take action to accomplish them. With God nothing is impossible. I believe very often, God is the one who puts those dreams in our hearts, when they line up with His word and are His will.

I now have my new book, the second book in The Cinderella Story series called The Cinderella Story: The Power of Dreams, available for pre-ordering. I plan to launch it on January 10, 2016, if not before then, but you can pre-order it right now for just 99 cents, and then get it when it launches!

This is an eBook for your Kindle. You can also get the Kindle app for your laptop or computer, your phone, your iPad, or your Mac to read it. My prayer is to have this book available in print copy next year, but right now you can pre-order the eBook for Kindle at a great price!

The price will be raised for the book launch, so I encourage you to get it right now–and maybe gift a family member, friend, or business peer–while it’s this low price. Just in time for Christmas!

You can find it at Amazon by clicking here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B019HU4NR4

December 18, 2015 by
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I dreamed of T-Rex dinosaurs; what are you running from?

T-Rex and Triceratops dinosaurs

T-Rex and Triceratops dinosaurs

Last night I dreamed of dinosaurs. Some other people and I were in the claws of a giant T-Rex. He was asleep, and we escaped and began running into buildings for safety as he woke up.

The T-Rex and another T-Rex then began chasing other people and other dinosaurs. He was attacking one dinosaur to eat it when I woke up. 

The picture above is of our daughter Leah’s dinosaurs. She used to love dinosaurs and dinosaur cartoons like The Land Before Time with Littlefoot and Cera. Cera used to be SO annoying because she screamed so much from the evil Sharptooth T-Rex chasing them! But Leah loved the show. That year I gave her a dinosaur-themed birthday party. (The Jurassic Park movie is one of our family favorites.)

Video of Littlefoot dinosaur meeting Cera:

Although I laughed when I woke up this morning remembering my T-Rex dinosaurs dream, and the toy dinosaurs above don’t look frightening, at the time  my dream was scary.

I believe the T-Rex dinosaurs represent fear. What are you running from?

  • God?
  • Your purpose or calling?
  • Writing a book?
  • Fear of failure or fear of success?
  • A troubled marriage or relationship with your child, an in-law, a boss, a co-worker, a friend?
  • Debt/financial struggles?
  • A health scare?
  • The frightening news each day, like about Isis?
  • Something terrible happening to your children or grandchildren?
  • Never achieving your dream(s)?
  • Your life not mattering or making a difference?

Whatever it is that you’re running from, God doesn’t want you afraid. Here are 2 encouraging Scriptures for you today:

“If you will humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, in His good time, He will lift you up. Let Him have all your worries and cares, for He is always thinking about you and watching everything that concerns you.”–1 Peter 5:6-7, TLB

“When I am afraid, I will trust You.”–Psalm 56:3

You can watch the replay of my scope about this dream at Katch.me by clicking here.

 

November 22, 2015 by