Yesterday you heard my heart. Looking outward. Seeing life on planet earth. Recognizing the sorrows and struggles. It's important to counter that with the further recognition of the constant war between good and evil in this life. Hope approaches the heart with the distant satisfaction that there is a plan, there has…

                                         A friend (Tim George) lost a longtime family pet. A young family, friends of ours, recently spent the night in the hospital with their handicapped little girl after an hour long seizure, one of many she's survived. This country is sinking to unimagined lows as a direct result of this president and his…

    So I'm no fan of fantasy and chick lit and "sweet little romances". Of what kind of novels are you no fan?   Father, you give such creative freedom to writers. May mine be pleasing to you. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.

  This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light. In him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as…

  Five sunsets for your aesthetic viewing pleasure:     Father, your beauty is breathtaking. Thank you for the hint of heaven. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.

  We're not talking kisses and hugs here. We're talking football. We're talking about the politically correct invading a sport where gifted athletes, who are no less fallible in their humanity than you and I, compete on professional teams for a pre-season of four games and a regular season of sixteen games. From the end of…

                              A writer's tears . . . frustration when the story won't gel, or the words don't come, or the tempo seems off, or the characters won't cooperate. Small things in this world, but to the isolation of a writer in the zone, these things can raise the blood pressure, cause a surge…

                                 Believe me, I'm not making any comparisons of real courage (i.e. Tom Cruise's notorious comments of his work being equal to that of soldiers in Afghanistan) to what can be found in the resevoirs of creative storytelling. I'm speaking strictly of the creative courage it can take to tell a story…

  In case you missed it:       Set for . . . Revenge   Revenge is the third entry in the Degrees of Darkness Series by Winter Austin, published by Crimson Romance and due out November 11th (2013). We're reunited with Remy LeBeau attempting to put his past behind him once and for…

  Do not be wise in your own eyes;   fear the Lord and shun evil. This will bring health to your body   and nourishment to your bones.   Proverbs 3:7-8 (NIV)