My Reading Blog

Book Cover:  "In a land of Tropical beauty, two very different families are shaken by forces that will test their bonds of love and loyalty... Thailand's pristine and remote Ko Phi Phi island attracts tourists from around the world, offering a haven to people from all walks of life.  Yet even paradise has its perils.  Struggling to make ends meet, resort owners Lek and Sarai are happy to give an American named Patch room and board in exchange for his help.  But trouble looms when Patch's brother, Ryan, arrives, accompanied by his beautiful girlfriend, Brooke.  Lek learns that Patch is running from the law, and his mere presence puts Lek's family at risk.  Meanwhile, Brooke begins to doubt her love for Ryan, while her feelings for Patch blossom.  The two brothers, once inseparable, clash over a choice that could alter their lives. In the glorious landscape of sea and sky, where nature's bounty seems endless, these two families are caught in the cros...

Gentle summer breeze Howling gusts Cold, northwesternly rushes Listen, What's it saying? Smell, What's the scent? Leaves blowing Branches bending, falling Michelle talking (our windchimes) Clouds floating across the sky Where does it come from? Where does it go to? And then, Quiet Nothing Until another day It will come back

Stephen Ministry has been a passion of mine since we joined Redeemer. Even before that, I attended a Stephen Ministry workshop while at St. Barnabas and developed "Christ Care" groups by area. I enjoy listening to people and sharing my faith with them. I feel God has worked thru me to help the care receivers I have had, to listen and care for those clients who come to the Food Pantry and now helping clients who come to the Center of Hope. I've been a Stephen Leader for eight years and am burned out and feeling that I'm not doing a good job as a leader to our Stephen Ministers. I still enjoy the ministering part, but not the leadership role. I've shared my concerns with the other leaders and Pastor. I've asked to have a brainstorming session with the leaders and pastors, but have yet to hear anything. We need to decide where Stephen Ministry is going at Redeemer, who is going to take the lead, after 22 years do we need to re-look at the program, is it d...

reflect\ri-flekt\ vb \ 7: Realize, Consider ~ 2a: to think quietly and calmly. b: to express a thought or opinion resulting from reflection. I have challenged myself to write/reflect on something each week. I hope this will help me to get back into scrapbooking to reflect on the moments of my life and my family. By looking back, I can look forward to what is in store for me in the future. I'm sure it will help me realize how truly blessed I am. So let 2012 begin by Reflecting.

January - Vermont

Book Cover: A rookie paramedic pulls a young woman from her totaled care, a first rescue that begins a lifelong tangle of love and wreckage. Sheila Aresnault is a gorgeous enigma - streetwise and tough-talking, with haunted eyes, fierce desires and a never-look-back determination. Peter Webster, as straight an arrow as they come, falls for her instantly and entirely. Soon Sheila and Peter are embroiled in an intense love affair, married and parents to a baby daughter. Like the crash that brought them together, it all happened so fast. Can you ever really save another person? Eighteen years later, Sheila is long gone and Peter is raising their daughter, Rowan, alone. But Rowan is veering dangerously off track, and for the first time in their ordered existence together, Webster fears for her future. His work shows him daily every danger the world contains how wrong everything can go in a second. All the love a father can give a daughter is suddenly not enough. Now Sheila...

Book Cover: Who Are the Innocent? 1964 - American literary giant Ben Bolt dies penniless in a Parisian garret. 1996 - Socialite Renate Hunter Carr washes up dead on a California beach. Two lovers, their deaths separated by 30 years and 10,000 miles. Inextricably linked by a secret someone will kill again to protect. Senior CIA analyst Mariah Bolt never shared his fans' enthusiasm for her late, famous father, Ben Bolt. The world revered him as a literary genius. Mariah remembered only the man who abandoned his pregnant wife and 7 year old daughter to run off to Europe with another woman - Renate Hunter Carr. But like it or not, Mariah become the reluctant guardian of the Ben Bolt legacy - never knowing she'd inherited a ticking time bomb. Widowed, preoccupied with her troubled teenage, Mariah is about to leave on a much-needed vacation when she is handed an urgent assignment - to lure a man into betraying his country. There's only one hitch - to get to the man,...