Angels We Have Heard on High

Wind Follower by Carole McDonnell

Well, Folks, it's my birthday so decided to repost about Wind Follower. I feel so blessed to have had a book published. It just makes my heart leap with joy. mucho.



http://www.juno-books.com/windfollower.html

It can be bought directly from the publishers here:
http://www.wildsidepress.com/Wind-Follower-by-Carole-McDonnell-PB_p_31-130.html

Anyways, check out the interview at Shades of Romance . There'll be a review sometime during the month on Shades of Romance Blog

The folks involved in the Christian Fiction Review Blog will be posting stuff from Dec 2 - Dec 8. So if something isn't up on their respective sites yet, it will be up later.

Christian Fiction Review Blog
Cathischatter.blogspot.com/
Disturbing The Universe: Reviews And Rants
Queen of Convolution
The Lost Genre Guild
The land of my sojourn
virtualbooktourdenet/
http://gracebridges.blogspot.com/
http://afrankreview.blogspot.com/
http://blog.lostgenreguild.com/
http://disturbingreviews.blogspot.com/2007/12/windfollower-art-loic.html
http://virtualbooktourdenet.blogspot.com/2007/12/interview-with-carole-mcdonnell.html
http://authorgeralynbeauchamp.blogspot.com/2007/12/thank-you-carole-mcdonnell-and-wind.html
http://forstrose.blogspot.com/2007/12/wind-follower-by-carole-mcdonnell-cfrb.html
http://lisanevin.blogspot.com/2008/04/wind-follower-my-thoughts.html


The Writers of Color Blog Tour participants are:
Rachel Lindley
Moondancer Drake's blog
East of Mars
Greg Banks

Other interviews and reviews --from folks not in the tour-- can be found here:
http://www.graspingforthewind.com/2007/10/03/book-review-wind-follower-by-carole-mcdonnell/
http://longandshortreviews.blogspot.com/2007/07/review-wind-follower-not-yet-released.html
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6478173.html?q=carole+mcdonnell+wind+follower
http://mindflights.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=512

Humans Cannot Help But Love Each Other

This is so so so true.
I think loving each other is the "default"

I think love is probably the default in all things earthly or heavenly.
It just seems to be.

Am only speaking from experience and from what I've seen in the world. People generally like each other. They generally aim to like people. Sometimes before they know it, they already like people. And if we hang out with anyone for more than a day or two, we tend to like them. It's weird...but the heart just kinda knits with strangers naturally -- as if we were all born to be brotehrs. And it really does take a lot to dislike a person. And EVEN when we dislike them.... some part of us still really likes them.

I suppose it's because we are made in God's image. God is love. So we are love. God is just. So we are just. God creates. So we create. God loves beauty. So we love beauty. Yet we've lost our likeness to him. We qualify our love. We have strange standards of justice. And yet, sometimes it shines through...that all on earth is so about love.

Yeah, I know this sounds like a bit of a ramble...but it's something I really try to express in my stories -- this natural lovingness we all have...and how stuff in life -- wealth, prejudice, class, fear, snobbery, misunderstandings, pride-- just kinda thwarts it.

How strange it'll be to live in heaven where the unnatural urge to fear will be no more...and to walk around living a natural life -- just loving and being loved.

Don't Tal to Cops Part ! and Part 2

Finished Blogging the psalms

Well, it's done. Last year when God told me to dedicate the year to blogging the psalms, I thought, "oh, okay."

I didn't do it well, alas. I kinda messed up somewhere between Psalm 40 and 70. I just kinda put them in without comment. I should really go back and comment. Or at the very least add some youtube sermons or worship vids. Will see.

I haven't been as faithful as I could be. But God is so good; He'll  accept  this.
Now, to wait to  see what God wants me to work on next year.

Psalm 150

What a wonderful way to end the psalms! The Scriptures state that God inhabits the praises of His people!

Psalm 150

 ¹Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.
 ²Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.
 ³Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.
 ⁴Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
 ⁵Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.
 ⁶Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.

Psalm 149

What are the effects and powers of praise?

Praises to God has an effect on God, an effect on the praiser, an effect of the enemies of God, and an effect on the enemies of God's people. Praise is a two-edged sword that executes judgement. It binds demonic kings in chains. It executes the written judgment.  A casual reader will look at this and think that we are to destroy the enemies with physical warfare. But this psalm is about the power of a spiritual sword. The Bible uses praise as a sword. Unlike Islam which talks of Jihad and often means a physical war. We are to praise and to trust that our words are executing the judgment that God has written.

Psalm 149

 ¹Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints.
 ²Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
 ³Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
 ⁴For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.
 ⁵Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.
 ⁶Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand;
 ⁷To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
 ⁸To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
 ⁹To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.

Lord you are Good and your mercy endures forever