Encouragement Category
Angels Unaware–or–Aware – Part I
Posted on April 7, 2015 Leave a Comment
Have you ever met an angel? What is an angel? The English word angel comes from the Greek ang´el-os, which means, messenger, or one who brings tidings. I’ll be telling a couple of angel stories today, one is my Mom’s encounter with an angel, one is mine. Both of our encounters are with angels who […]
Eternal Moments of the Day–Nostalgia Time
Posted on March 31, 2015 Leave a Comment
Ten years ago today, my Mother died. Her earthly body died, but her spirit went straight to her Savior. She was 89 and a half. I’ll never forget that day. I can’t believe it’s been ten years. In some ways, it seems longer, because so much has happened since then. In others, it doesn’t seem […]
Perspectives on Life and Death – Part II
Posted on March 24, 2015 1 Comment
Wow, am I remiss. How time flies and you don’t even know it. I’m amazed. I said I’d post Part II a week later. Now, it’s been a month. I promised to talk about our personal lives, what brings life and death to our dreams, visions for our life, and relationships. Death to Dreams I […]
An Update to My Writing Journey
Posted on March 19, 2015 1 Comment
I haven’t written much lately about my writing journey, which is originally why I started this blog, so I thought I’d share an update. Even when things appear to go slowly, sometimes progress isn’t seen until a step back is taken. Today, I’m stepping back and taking an inventory of what I’m involved in that […]
The Power of Story
Posted on March 18, 2015 2 Comments
Stories have been told as long as mankind has existed. What is it about stories that so compels us to want to read, hear, or watch them? Stories keep our attention, our interest, and help us learn. I once saw an interview with actor Michael York. Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) had hired him to play […]
Spring is Finally on the Way
Posted on March 11, 2015 Leave a Comment
Although I wouldn’t have known it last Thursday, when seven inches of snow fell. Dozens of robins rode out the snowstorm on our front porch, in our magnolia tree, our garden, and as we discovered yesterday, in front of our garage doors. Now, we’re having a great meltdown of the snow as our temperatures the […]
Happy One Year Anniversary – yesterday
Posted on February 18, 2015 4 Comments
On February 17, 2014, I started this blog with a very short post about a novel process. Since then, we’ve grown some. This blog has readers from around the world, well over 40 countries. I get the statistics, and I know what you read, and what you don’t. I think, and correct me if I’m wrong, […]
Surprise Post
Posted on February 16, 2015 Leave a Comment
Sometimes I love surprises. How about you? I was surprised by a birthday party last summer. This blog celebrates it’s first anniversary this week – on Wednesday. I had a blurry rose picture for my first post last year. I changed it to this group of roses. I talked about process. There are processes to […]
For Those with Rejection Issues
Posted on February 11, 2015 2 Comments
I’ve added a new tab on this website. About 13 years ago, I discovered I had “the root of rejection.” What is that, anyway? I’m going to be talking about rejection in all its forms in separate posts under that tab. What I’ll do with the posts, is to put a link to the most […]
A Note of Appreciation
Posted on January 28, 2015 Leave a Comment
I just wanted to tell you all how much I appreciate you reading this blog. I really do. You come from over 30 countries besides the U.S. My statistics tell me you like the posts about writing resources. I will continue that. Some of you are my friends and you know me. Some of you […]
Donna L.H. Smith 