Posts by Gina Conroy
Pain is Good!
Today at church our pastor spoke about how pain isn’t always a bad thing. It’s a God given response to something very wrong in our bodies. Without pain a person might not go to the doctor. They might not even know they’re sick until it’s too late! It’s the same with God. Sometimes God can…
Read MoreGod Dreams
I finished Closer Than Your Skin a while ago and through out the book the author Susan D. Hill refers to her dreams and the lessons she’s learned from them. It started me thinking 1) how in the world did she remember all those dreams over all those years (she mentioned she kept a journal…
Read MoreI Lost My Voice!
It’s about three hours away, lost somewhere south of where I live. Thursday and Friday I attended my Joey’s overnight field trip with five kids and four adults (including me.) It was fun, but I was already feeling the affects of seasonal allergies. I was congested with a tickle in my throat, and occasional cough,…
Read MoreHappily Even After
Looking for a book that looks at married love with a touch of sass? Then Happily Even After is the book for you! Marilynn Griffith’s latest release, this book is an honest and hilarious look at the challenges of maintaining love in marriage while establishing some badly needed boundaries. The latest installment in the Sassy…
Read MoreBetrayed by Jeanette Windle
This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing Betrayed Tyndale House Publishers (February 6, 2008) by Jeanette Windle As the child of missionary parents, award-winning author and journalist Jeanette Windle grew up in the rural villages, jungles, and mountains of Colombia, now guerrilla hot zones. Her detailed research and writing is so realistic that…
Read MoreHeart Transplant and Back Surgery
No, not me or even a friend or family member…MY WIP! I lost count as to how many HEARTs and BACKs are in my WIP. Between my the heart lurching, and jumping into throats and thudding against her ribs it’s no wonder my WIP had a BACK problem as well. As in BACK THEN, instead…
Read MoreMake a Book Trailer FREE!
Jill Elizabeth Nelson here, ready to launch you on a voyage of peril and discovery! An epic journey. . . All right, I’ll lay off the melodrama. This is a project, okay? And it’s going to have its hair pulling moments, guaranteed, but I found the pain worth the gain. At a recent mini-retreat with…
Read MoreBack Seat Babble
I Don’t Like Tambourines! Driving Grace (5) home from preschool the other day she says, “Mom, I don’t like tambourines!” “Okay,” I think to myself and then ask some probing questions to find out why. I’m thinking maybe they played tambourines in school. “no!”or church “No!” After several minutes of trying to figure out what…
Read MoreLearning from Loss
Imagine losing everything. It’s bad enough worrying about losing all my WIPs to a computer crash, but after this past Monday, such anxieties seem pretty small scale. You see, this past Monday, my husband’s sister and her family lost everything in a house fire. Everything but each other. These things happen and we all wonder…
Read MorePassion
Father, I want those you gave me to be with me, right where I am…I have made your very being known to them – who you are and what you do – and continue to make it known, so that your love for me might be in them exactly as I am in them. …
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