It's summertime, and I love it.    Thank you, Lord, for the beauty in each season. You could've left the earth desolate but you chose to give it life, renewal, and beauty. Thank you is never enough. In the…

    Another unique sound back in the day. One of their most well known hits.   Father, only you give talent and gifts that are worthy. Thank you for them all. May each one know from whom they are given and enjoyed. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.  

              Blackout by Mark Dawson, Book 10 in the John Milton Series, begins at the cook shack for taxi cab drivers in London. John Milton (aka John Smith) has resumed his graveyard shift as a cook in the nook provided as the rest stop for weary taxi cab drivers…

  Humbles yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.    1 Peter 5:6-7 (NIV)

                    Can you think of five movies you paid to see that you didn't like or hated? Here are mine: Carnal Knowledge (hated) Dances with Wolves (hated) Before Sunrise (didn't like) Catch-22 (It was like a movie with two halves – hated the second half) Old…

                      I've now read all the John Milton novels by British author Mark Dawson and am waiting for the next one just like I do for Mitch Rapp's next stories. I'll save my overstated love for Mitch Rapp – still my Number One – for another…

                          No Filter is Book One in this Barks & Beans Café Cozy Mystery Series by Heather Day Gilbert.  Macy Hatfield is recently divorced when her brother Bo calls with a new business venture that not only surprises her but requires her to…

  What a great song. Love it. Way back when . . . we had such good music.    Father, continue to bless your singers and musicians. Let them know who gave them their wonderful talents and gifts. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.  

              The Jungle by Mark Dawson is Book 9 in The John Milton Series. John "Smith" is still in London living his austere, minimalist lifestyle when he volunteers to help an acquaintance (Tommy) from his AA group to drive some furniture to Calais, France. Once that's done, as John…

           Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."      The woman said to him, "Sir, give…