Your Spiritual Nutrition, Christine Prescott
•Prayer is like water-vital for life and essential for survival.
•Bible study is like protein necessary for growth.
•Christian fellowship is like carbohydrates-gives us energy.
•Worship is like healthy fats-helps keep our hearts healthy,
•Thinking on good things is like vitamins-necessary for helping the othernutrients work effectively.
"Just as the flab in our physical bodies will only go away through consistently healthy eating and exercise, our spiritual flab can only be removed through a good spiritual diet and exercise that becomes a part of our lives every day".
Artist Kate Flaherty
Flaherty's Crossing
Successful yet emotionally stifled artist Kate Flaherty stands at the deathbed of her estranged father, conflicted by his morphine-induced confession exposing his part in her mother's death. While racing home, Kate's car mishap leads her to a soul-searching discussion with a lone diner employee, prompting Kate to confront the true reasons her marriage hangs in the balance. When her night takes an unexpected turn, however, she flees
for her life, a life desperate for faith that can only be found through her ability to forgive.
KAYLIN'S CAUSE
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Famous Life Quotes
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. Henry Van Dyke
Marriage Quotes
Theodore Hesburgh
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring and integrity, they think of you.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A Unique Christian Book For Married Women
Z Holiday Season
May your holiday season be filled with joy, blessings, love and great times.
The Reality About POD Publishing
Maybe you've paid for the 25,000 online bookstore promotion package. OK, cool your in the data base, along with millions of other author's and books. Maybe you've paid for the national and international promotions package. That's great, now your again among the millions and millions of online books.
Have you Googled your books title, or maybe your name and found that your book is found on the search engines? That's great, however in all honesty does anyone other than you, your publisher and a few friends know the name of your book or who you are? Let's be honest, if your a first time author or a unknown author, who's going to search for your book by it's title or your name as the author?
As a author, you must market yourself and your book. That's where having a author media site becomes your starting point. You can showcase your book, a description of your book, your author description, some interesting things about yourself, share important links and share your contact information and where and how book lovers can order your book.
Provided that you can order your books from your publisher at a author's discount. Then you can sell them right from you're authors site and the profits by far exceed royalties.
Your author's media site becomes your online worldwide business card. It is where people can find you, read about your book, you as the author, about local book signings and whatever other interesting information and content you provide. Without your own personal website, or authors blog, your just another book and author among the millions and millions found online.
Some author's join every book club they can find, sign every guest book they can and join other author communities hoping that this will bring book sales. However, in the end, this usually proves to be a lot of work with very little results.
If your looking for some assistance in creating a author's site and marketing your site and book, contact us at kingdomexpansion1@gmail.com , we can help you get online, jump started and get you the online exposure that you deserve.
Author Media Blogs & Book Marketing
Choosing The Right POD Publisher
Let me encourage you to take you're time when choosing a POD Publisher. Take the time to read "all" the content on the site, all the pages and do comparisons with other POD Publishers. There are some great POD Publisher's out there that offer some great publishing packages.
Do you're homework, find the right publisher for you, and get the best deal. Most importantly think things through from start to finish to make sure that the POD Publisher that you choose fits into you're overall vision and objective for you as a author and you're book.
Author Media Site & Book Marketing
Author Media Blog Marketing Challenge
Maybe you've joined a few online social communities, signed a few guest books and have some online interaction out there that markets you're book and author media site. I could share some great book social clubs and communities with you that have again thousands of author's all trying to do the same thing, the sites are flooded with great books and the competition is fierce.
If you're looking for prime ad placement on a network that consist of over 150 separate sites, that will get you the marketing you deserve and market you're author media site, contact me. I can prepare a marketing challenge that will market you as a author, you're author media site and dramatically increase you're online presence.
Interested parties may contact me at: kingdomexpansion1@gmail.com
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Building A Online Presence
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Authors & New Book Releases
While you here, take some time and visit The Authors Club which is a brand new forum just for authors. You can also market your book and book site at the forum free of charge.Simply visit The Authors Club and again, it's a brand new forum just for authors.
Safe Guard Your Family This Flu Season
As with most of the posts that I have written on this subject, I simply want to encourage our readers to stay informed about this and become educated on the best ways to protect you and your family from potentially catching the swine flu. Perform some online searches under the words swine flu and simply take in the valuable information.
Finding Great Books At Great Prices
I use many online book stores to search for great books at great prices. From Amazon to Barnes & Noble to simply performing searches online. Another great place to look for books is Deal Oz
Too Many Ideas In The Pot
It's better to stay the course and to stay focussed than to end up with a can of marbles that just make a lot of noise. After a while, no one will want to hear the marbles rattling around.
Leaving Those Yesterday Behind
It's important to be about moving forward and leaving some of our yesterdays behind us. For we never want to become stuck in the quicksand of bad memories and the cards that life sometimes deals us. For today and tommarrow brings new challenges and victories to be won.
Quiting Out Of Fear Of Failure
Never just quit, especially after chasing after people that believe that rocks speak to them.
Free Cycle Network
Here's a pretty neat site that I came across. It's called the Free Cycle Network. It's made up of 4,808 groups with 6,540,000 members around the world. They say its a grassroots movement of people who are giving and getting free stuff in their own communities. What's cool about it, is it's all about reusing good stuff and keeping it out of the landfills. Great idea! Plus you just might find some really cool items for free ....
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Driving, Make Up & The Eye Lash Stroking
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She's Wacky & Fun
Children bring joy to our lives, they are blessings from above and they are a special part of all our lives. We should all make time and take time to spend quality time with our children. They have so much to teach us and we have so much to learn from them. Like how to enjoy the simplicity of life.
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Keeping The Flame Burning
Let The Author Speak
What colors does your character and personality give off? Are you a beautiful rainbow or a headache? Are your colors full or transparent? Do people like you or put up with you? Do people enjoy you or walk away wondering if you're all there. Do you see yourself as beautiful colors while others see you as colorless?
The Chapters Of The Mind
Success escapes him as fear of failure takes rule over him. For it's easier to create another new idea than it is to complete the ones already on the table. Like a frog leaping from leap to leap, as the battlefield of the mind unfolds.
He's an imaginary idealist just waiting for the next chapter of his mind to unfold ...
Have A Great Weekend
Remember, there are mountains to climb, and victories to be won.
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The Quiet Storm
Hope In Economic Times
Monterey is a picturesque community, 100 miles south of San Francisco. It is situated on the great Monterey Bay.
The Monterey Bay, gave to the city of Monterey all the bounty of the ocean. For decades Monterey fishermen brought back the fruit of the sea, the fish, that fed millions of people in America.
The backbone of this great fishery, and therefore of the economy in Monterey, was the annual catch of sardines.
These sardines were captured, brought to port, and then to Cannery Row – a row of fish canning operations lining the Monterey beach. There, of course, the sardines were packed into silver cans, wrapped in a red and black paper seal declaring them to be high-quality sardines from Monterey, California. They were then shipped throughout America and the world.
And the economy was good.
But, in the summer of 1905, something terrible happened. An economic disaster of unprecedented proportions happened to this bustling fishing town.
The disaster was this: the fishermen and their many boats, and many employees, simply over fished the sardine population. They did it to such a degree, that the sardines couldn’t reproduce their stock – and, suddenly, sardines simply disappeared from the fisherman’s nets! They were gone! And with them, were also, apparent to everyone, the good times for people in Monterey.
But – and this is a very important but – this was not the end of the story. A very great and ominous disaster had happened on their watch, but now something wondrous and hopeful, also took place on their watch.
Here is what, actually, happened: first, the people of Monterey and their churches, prayed. Now, whether you believe in prayer or not, that is secondary to the story. My duty is just to give hope and tell you how the story turned out, in actual history.
Most of the ship owners in Monterey doubled as their own ship captains. There were no big corporate fleets. It was mostly private fishermen who had built their fishing business to the level of having a ship or two, and going out daily and bringing the fish back. They worked hard at it, and they became better and better at what they did, and therefore became more and more successful.
But the sea had always helped them. Now that the sardines were gone, what next? What would happen to the economy, to the ship owners and captains, and to all the crews and their families?
The captains of the ships talked among themselves. As they talked, they told tales that they had heard long ago, about schools of great fish, that a Monterey fisherman and his ship and crew had once found.
But, these great fish, which were only known by the thin thread of perhaps a tall tale, were caught as far out as 200 miles from the shore! No Monterey fisherman and his crew, at least for decades, had gone beyond 20 miles!
No one ever dared to go that far! It had not yet entered the imagination of the people.
They had the vessels for it, and the crews. Now what they needed was some bold and intrepid captains, who would dare to go farther into deeper waters, than anyone ever had before.
And, in a true to life story, several believing captains, with their valiant ships and willing crews, set out to find out if the tales of these great fish had any truth to them.
They went fifty miles. Then eighty miles. Then over a hundred miles. But approximately one hundred and fifty miles out, they saw “boiling water” – a strange occurrence on the surface of the water that far out in the middle of the sea.
The captains and their crews, decided to fish these “boiling waters.” For their efforts, they began to pull in yellowfin tuna anywhere from 100 to 300 pounds! And there was no end to them!
Now, dear reader, understand that until this date in history, no one in the entire world had ever eaten tuna. Well, maybe some long ago sea captain and his crew had. But for the most part, tuna had never been known before. It had never been seen or eaten!
So, the intrepid sea captains and their fishermen returned home to Monterey with great good news – and a big load of great fish!
Think about it. Sardines were only 4 to 8 inches long, and now the fishermen replaced them with tuna that were 4-8 feet long! The sardines weighed a half-pound at best, and the tuna weighed up to three hundred pounds. In fact, later, as fishermen found the will to go farther, they caught bluefin tuna, that weighed up to 1500 pounds!
Thus, by being willing to go further than anyone had gone before ,and by choosing to act in new ways rather than just sit and suffer, although the economy went down with the sardines – now it went up with the tuna! Following what might have been just a tall story by an old salt, turned out to give the people of Monterey a true, and much greater, story. They introduced tuna and tuna fishing to the world. Their ships got bigger. Their crews got paid more. More tourists came to Monterey. The little bustling fishing didn’t go down with the sardines!
Somehow, the town, its people, and its economy all got a new lease on life. They grew. They prospered. And – they fed the whole world to a far greater degree.
In that summer day of 1905, when the sardine stock fell and the bottom dropped out of the sardine business, it shook everybody up. But, they said their prayers, decided to go further than ever before, chose to “seek a greater story” – and, however combined elements made it happen – tuna, much larger than sardines, and a tuna catch, much greater than the total sardine catch had ever achieved, was brought into the history, and to the palates, of the entire world.
The economy recovered and boomed.
My friends, could it be possible that right now, this very day, that even as you experience the loss of something you long felt secure and that you built your hopes on, just a little farther ahead, with a little willingness to keep your chin and morale up, exploring a little further, pursuing a greater, not lesser, story for you and yours, we might ourselves see our “sardines” not just gone, but our own kind of new, far greater, “tuna” right in front of us replacing our loss with something much better?
I believe that people with the American dream, don’t just get better dreams. They get a better story. It comes complete with the faith, the new vision, the will to try, the solid meat of the fish, the adventures, and the tale to tell all our children about.
The measure of something great is that greater things still come out of it.
Say your prayers, stoke the embers of your dreams and visions. Listen to wise stories. Make your minds and ships go further into the ocean of the Spirit – and I believe either you yourself, or some intrepid captains, are going to come back with the equivalent of boatloads of silver tuna in our time – together with directions how you can get a lot more of them.
by Eric Zehnder
Copyright 2008
The Fruit Of Endless Hours Of Dedication
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For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
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