Dear Reader,
Kim Vogel Sawyer is a highly acclaimed, bestselling author with more than 1.5 million books in print in seven different languages. Her titles have earned numerous accolades including the ACFW Carol Award, the Inspirational Readers' Choice Award, and the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence. Kim lives in central Kansas with her retired military husband, Don, where she continues to write gentle stories of hope. She enjoys spending time with her three daughters and grandchildren.
Her new book is From This Moment.
A lost ring brings together two wounded souls--a youth minister haunted by the past and a spunky church custodian--in this heartwarming romance.
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THE DROPPED SOCK
A little over a year ago, my husband and I adopted a pair of kittens. We weren't in the market for kittens, but when I saw them, I exclaimed, "Oh, they're as cute as the dickens!", and then promptly dubbed them Oliver and Dodger. (Once you've named an animal, it's kind of yours.)
It'd been awhile since we had kittens in the house. Kittens are everywhere! And they're small, so they are easy to overlook. This nearly proved deadly for the little black kitty, Oliver...
I was doing laundry. We have a front-load washing machine. (This is an important detail even though it sounds a little mundane.) I emptied a basket of clothes into the washer then reached to close the door. But I noticed I'd dropped a sock. I bent over and picked up the sock and, as I stood, I glanced into the drum. There was Oliver.
I scooped him out, my pulse racing. What if I hadn't seen him? How devastated I would have been to find him after the cycle was done. Were it not for a front load washing machine, which revealed the entire contents in a single glance, and a dropped sock, he wouldn't be here to curl in my lap and purr or chase his brother up and down the stairs or bat a felt mouse across the floor. I am so very grateful I dropped that sock.
Many times I've contemplated that dropped sock. At the moment it happened, I found it mildly annoying. Really, it couldn't have tumbled into the drum with the rest of the clothes? The annoyance shifted very quickly when I glimpsed the kitten. I have to wonder, how many other things I've found annoying--a road detour, a job loss, misplaced keys that kept me from leaving when I wanted to go...--really saved me from something unpleasant or potentially devastating?
In life, there will be many "dropped socks," but perhaps we should look at those annoyances in a different light. Kind of the glass half-full/half-empty concept. After all, a shift in habit to seek the positive rather than dwell on the negative is beneficial emotionally and mentally. And if you have a curious kitten that is prone to leaping into cavities when you aren't looking, maybe this story will save its life. That would definitely make my dropped sock worthwhile.
-- Kim Vogel Sawyer
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Suzanne Beecher
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HAUNTED HIBISCUS (Mystery) by Laura Childs
It's the week before Halloween and teashop owner Theodosia Browning and her tea sommelier Drayton attend a "literary themed" haunted house in a dilapidated mansion. But halfway through their visit, the guest author is found twisting from a third floor window as purple lights cast flickering images. The police and Theodosia's boyfriend Detective Riley come screaming in, but when Riley goes to the dead girl's house, he's shot! A murder and a shooting seem too coincidental for Theodosia who throws herself into her own shadow investigation. With pacing, plot twists, and action reminiscent of a thriller--this is a thrillzy!
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