“The Veteran’s Vow..

Posted February 25, 2022 by Leslie in Reviews by Leslie / 10 Comments
“The Veteran’s Vow” by Jill Lynn … and a GIVEAWAY!

Welcome to Friday Reads! If you’re the chosen winner, I’ll contact you for your information to pass along.   Blurb… Could his biggest fear be what he needs to heal? After a traumatic brain injury, military vet Behr Delgado refuses the one thing that could help him—a service dog. But Ellery Watson is sure the […]

Hope-Filled Sunday: Fear Not

Posted February 20, 2022 by Leslie in Devotions, Words of Hope / 0 Comments
Hope-Filled Sunday: Fear Not

Hope-Filled Sunday! Happy Sunday! Here’s some encouragement for your week.     For the past decade, I’ve been choosing a word of phrase for the year. I do still make a few resolutions, but those are no longer my main focus. Along with my word or phrase, I also choose a Bible verse. In December […]

Hope-Filled Sunday: Love is an..

Posted February 13, 2022 by Leslie in Devotions, Words of Hope / 0 Comments
Hope-Filled Sunday: Love is an Action Word

Hope-Filled Sunday!   Happy Sunday! Here’s some encouragement for your week.     Have you ever considered that love is an action word? Most people are familiar with “Love is patient. Love is kind.” I’m sure those are words most people have heard at some point in time. But are they phrases you put into […]

“The Lady’s Mine&#..

Posted February 11, 2022 by Leslie in Reviews by Leslie / 8 Comments
“The Lady’s Mine” by Francine Rivers … and a GIVEAWAY!

Welcome to Friday Reads!   If you’re the chosen winner, I’ll contact you for your information to pass along.    About the book… New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to the California frontier in this sweeping, romantic tale of a displaced New England suffragette, a former Union soldier disinherited by his Southern family, […]

Hope-Filled Sunday: Change of ..

Posted February 6, 2022 by Leslie in Devotions, Words of Hope / 2 Comments
Hope-Filled Sunday: Change of Plans

Hope-Filled Sunday!   Happy Sunday! Here’s some encouragement for your week.     2022 didn’t start off as I planned. As a chronic pain warrior for more than twenty-five years, I’m used to being in pain. However, this time, things were different. Despite all my precautions and basically putting my life on hold and rarely […]

“The Winter Rose” ..

Posted January 14, 2022 by Leslie in Uncategorized / 22 Comments
“The Winter Rose” by Melanie Dobson … and a GIVEAWAY!

Welcome to Friday Reads!     If you’re the chosen winner, I’ll contact you for your information to pass along.    About the book… In this gripping WWII time-slip novel from the author whose books have been called “propulsive” and a “must-read” (Publishers Weekly), Grace Tonquin is an American Quaker who works tirelessly in Vichy […]

Hope-Filled Sunday: Happy New ..

Posted January 2, 2022 by Leslie in Devotions, Words of Hope / 0 Comments
Hope-Filled Sunday: Happy New Year!

Hope-Filled Sunday!   Happy Sunday! Here’s some encouragement for your week.   Happy New Year! It’s hard to believe that after all the hustle and bustle associated with Christmas that it’s already time to usher in a new year. And with that comes even more chaos: putting away decorations, figuring out what to do with […]

Hope-Filled Sunday: The New Ye..

Posted December 26, 2021 by Leslie in Devotions, Words of Hope / 2 Comments
Hope-Filled Sunday: The New Year Quickly Approaches

Hope-Filled Sunday!   Happy Sunday! Here’s some encouragement for your week.     The new year quickly approaches! It’s hard to believe that’s it’s almost 2022. It seems like just yesterday we were preparing to start 2021 … yet, in some ways, it seems so much longer. Don’t you agree?  Most of us look forward […]

“Protecting Annie”..

Posted December 21, 2021 by Leslie in Reviews by Leslie / 14 Comments
“Protecting Annie” by Jodie Wolfe … and a GIVEAWAY!

Welcome to Takeover Tuesday!     If you’re the chosen winner, I’ll contact you for your information to pass along.    About the book… After twenty years of living along the trail as a deputy U.S. Marshal, Joshua Walker takes a job as sheriff in Burrton Springs, Kansas so he can be closer to his […]

Hope-Filled Sunday: Prince of ..

Posted December 19, 2021 by Leslie in Devotions, Words of Hope / 0 Comments
Hope-Filled Sunday: Prince of Peace

Hope-filled Sunday!      Happy Sunday! Here’s some encouragement for your week.   Wonderful Counselor. Mighty God. Everlasting Father. Prince of Peace. That pretty much sums it up, doesn’t it?  As we approach Christmas and celebrate the birth of Jesus, this verse is such a wonderful reminder. Jesus embodies everything we need in life. Jesus […]