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Fun Fridays – September 23, 2016

By Steve Laubeon September 23, 2016
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For those of you who may not have heard, Karen Ball’s father passed away this past week. She has been providing in-home care for a long time. He was a former pastor and loved the old hymns of the faith.

My father passed away four years ago this month. He too loved the old hymns and particularly liked to hear me sing “How Great Thou Art.”

The lives of these two fathers are what inspired my choice for today’s video. It is a creative arrangement of four classic hymns, “How Great Thou Art,” “It is Well with My Soul,”  “Great is Thy Faithfulness,” and “Holy, Holy, Holy.”

The legacy of great music lives on.

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Category: Fun Fridays, Personal

What Do You Think of Used Books?

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon September 15, 2016
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Some authors might complain that books shouldn’t be sold on the secondary market since authors don’t earn royalties on used books. I understand that sense of loss, but as is the case with libraries, used book stores are a great place to discover authors and their work. Our town has two used book stores, though I tend to favor one with convenient parking. Here, a customer can’t go in and say, “Do …

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Category: Personal, ReadingTag: Book Sales, Reading, Used Books

“Do You Love Me?”

By Karen Ballon September 14, 2016
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Have you heard the one about the elderly woman who heard her friends’ husbands over the years tell them how much they loved them? Oh! How she longed for her husband to do the same. To regale her with the depth and breadth of his enduring love. But…nothing. Finally, as they were sitting out on the porch one morning, she turned to him and said as sweetly as she could, “WHY don’t you ever say you …

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Category: Personal, TheologyTag: God's love, Theology

A Time for Lament

By Steve Laubeon July 16, 2016
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For a while we were able to rattle off the cities or the names of various people and incidents where someone died. Every place from Columbine to Sandy Hook to Ferguson to Fort Hood to Charleston to Orlando to Dallas to Nice. But now the litany has become too long and transformed into one long cry. Not a cry for a rally but literally a cry of lament. What makes it worse are the untold tragedies …

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Category: Christian, Personal, TheologyTag: Lament, Theology

Expecting the Unexpected   

By Karen Ballon April 6, 2016
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I used to think that if you did a, b would follow, closely tailed by c. That belief was blasted into smithereens by the time I hit my third decade of life. I’ve learned that doing a MAY bring b, or q, or something not even remotely related. I’ve learned in my life, my career, and my faith to expect the unexpected. So why am I telling you this? Well, a couple of weeks ago I promised you a blog …

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Category: Christian, Faith, PersonalTag: Christian, Faith

The Unexpected Advent

By Karen Ballon December 23, 2015
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Well, best laid plans, and all that. You may have noticed there wasn’t a blog from me last week. I was all ready to write about Bethlehem– And WHAM! Life took an unexpected turn. Rather than being in my office, writing a brilliant blog to bless you all, I spent the day dealing with health crises for my older brother. It started at 2:30 am with a phone call from emergency services, and I …

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Category: Personal, TheologyTag: Christian, Christmas, Theology

The Little Things

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon December 17, 2015
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Do you make New Year’s Resolutions? If you do, you may already be thinking about them, at least a little. I don’t tend to make strict ones but throughout the year, I do try to improve. I notice it’s the little things that kill. Take the preparation and display of Thanksgiving cranberry sauce. A few years ago, as a small part of my contribution to dinner, I brought jellied cranberry sauce. Of …

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Category: PersonalTag: Personal, Resolutions

Joy to the World?

By Steve Laubeon December 14, 2015
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The angel said, “I bring you good tidings of great joy!” We really need some of that these days. With Paris and San Bernardino still in the news cycle we are reminded of the evil among us. And then this past week I received a series of bad news from industry friends. A publishing friend lost his home to a fire. A client called to say they’ve been diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma which is a cancer …

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Category: Personal, TheologyTag: Christian, Christmas, Theology

A Job I Believe In

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon December 3, 2015
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Do you believe in your job? I mean, really believe in it? Recently I went to an event where I hadn’t planned to talk at all about being a literary agent. But I found myself talking about books all the same. Granted, I didn’t talk about being a literary agent in the same way I’d talk about it with writers; no one at the event was a writer so they weren’t interested in having a novel published. In …

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Category: Book Business, Career, PersonalTag: Career

Happy Thanksgiving!

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon November 26, 2015
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Today I will be cooking a Thanksgiving dinner for my family and I hope you will be celebrating with those you love as well. Perhaps you will be able to take a few moments to ponder the Gospel entry from the Book of Common Prayer, presented in more than one translation. God Bless you. Readings for Thanksgiving Day The Gospel St. Matthew vi. 25 JESUS said, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall …

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Category: Christian, Faith, PersonalTag: Book of Common Prayer, Faith, thanksgiving
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