The past two years, my family has participated in the Spring100 Challenge. Over the three months of springtime, we all walked 100 miles together.
We were looking forward to participating again this year, but the challenge organizers decided to take a break for 2023.
But my online walking accountability group I created in 2022 wanted to walk 100 miles this spring again anyway!
So I’m hosting my own unofficial 100 Miles in Spring challenge! We’re again attempting to walk 100 miles from March 20-June 20.
If you’d like to join us, the signup form is currently open! It’s all online, free, and hosted on Slack, an easy and free platform. There’s also an optional meditation challenge where we’ll be meditating on John 13-17 over the three months of walking.
It’s Taerna’s birthday! Promise’s Prayer turns 6 and Victory’s Voice turns 2 on March 18. Memory’s Mind and Romance’s Rest also have their first within a month of now – not to mention Resting Life turns 3 on March 20!
So I’m celebrating with:
– A SALE. Get the whole series for under $9! (Regularly $23!) These prices are only good March 1-8, so don’t wait. Most of the books are just 99 cents apiece. (Years of work are poured into these books. This sale is totally a steal for you. I’m not making any profit off of these. But I am passionate about getting these books and the messages in them out to people to encourage people in their walk with God.) And just for fun, most of my other books are 99 cents as well. – FREE BOOKS. Promise’s Prayer is FREE for a few days only. And Treasures from Taerna, my short story collection, is also free here. – FUN EXTRAS. Did you know that there are maps of Taerna? Or that Taerna has detailed Pinterest boards with character images, gorgeous landscape photos, and inspirational series-related quotes? Or that you can find out your Taerna title or which Taerna character you are? and more? It’s all here! – A BRAND NEW RELEASE! See below…
2. Everythingis published! Before you scratch your head, I will quickly explain that Everything is the title of a story collection – a collection with 21 stories all on the theme “everything.” I edited, formatted, and published this collection with stories from me and from twenty-one other female Christian authors.
This collection weaves tales both historical and contemporary in a variety of imaginative settings. Everything features lovable characters: a homeless orphan, a reminiscing mother, an agent juggling fatherhood, a wary teenager and his dog, a terrified housebound woman, and a pair of Sherlock Holmes-obsessed orphan twins on a mission. Learn the spiritual lessons of an old car, a mission trip tragedy, a lonely grandmother’s box of Christmas ornaments, and a graphic designer’s work worries. Smile and weep with a wife bereaved by war, a taxi driver and his ministry, a sweet child with a terminal diagnosis, and chronic illness warrior who learns to bless others.
Catch the vision of hope in everything captured in two inspiring poems. Rejoice with a faithful, trusting relative with an uncertain future, sympathize with a health-challenged gardener-wannabe, cry with a family separated by war, and decide who struggles more with birthday party planning: two loyal pixies or a young mother and her mischievous dog.
Warmth, hope, and encouragement pervade the pages, echoing the theme of “everything” from a refreshing plethora of angles equally insightful and entertaining, spiritually profound, and eternally valuable.
Also, today is the release day for a book by some author friends of mine…
A VERY BOOKISH EASTER
It’s four stories by four authors. Each story is based on/themed around a classic novel: Heidi, A Christmas Carol, The Secret Garden, Romeo and Juliet. Each story is resurrection themed.
