Lord, Help My Unbelief

A timely story for Halloween. Demon possession, a failed exorcism and then….

This is a post from my friend Ben Nelson, author and blogger, who writes almost daily on his blog Another Red Letter Day. Ben has this beautiful way of taking stories from the Bible and writing them in first person – becoming a character in the story – and this is one of my favorite stories. In fact, he has a book out the walks you through 40 days with Jesus. It’s remarkable. Please enjoy.

There is no way to get rid of this kind of
demon except by prayer.
Mark 9:29

Help My Doubts

Father of a Demon-Possessed Boy

I remember the doctor saying to us, years ago, “Keep a record of his bad days.” My son—my eight-year-old boy—Enoch and I visited the doctor often in those first days. It’s been another eight years since we stopped going to doctors. For seven of them, we’ve found it easier to record the…

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Congratulations to the winners!

Posted by Patty Perrin

Although TERRA’S CALL didn’t win an award this time, I’m happy to say it was a finalist, and I’m thrilled to have met so many of the wonderful folks who won! Writers come in all shapes, sizes, ages, shades, and belief systems, and when we’re together in a nurturing environment like that at the Florida Writer’s Association conference, positive energy fills the rooms.

We celebrate the drive to write that links us and determine to make the motto of the Association our own: ‘Writers Helping Writers’. Every one of us, whether published or not, pours our heart into our writing. This Association pours their heart into celebrating what we do and giving us tools through excellent workshops and lectures to become better writers and to tackle those things we’re reluctant and often unequipped to handle. In my case, that’s marketing.

I hope you’ll take the time to look at the list of winners and read some of their excellent works. I know I will. How exciting that I KNOW them personally now! And now, I’m off to write the third book in the TetraSphere series!

Click here for a list of the winners and their work!

To see the books I’ve written that are available now, go to ptlperrin.org.

Beta Readers, It’s About the Book – Not You

Posted by Patty Perrin

I love this checklist for Beta Readers, and for me as an author! Thank you, Ashleigh Giannoccaro!

If you’re one of my Beta Readers, this should make it easier for you. I really do want your honest feedback. I promise I won’t cry too much. The blotchy look doesn’t look good with my blue hair.

When Hope is Lost (A Lesson from Birds) …

Posted by Patty Perrin

I love reposting Felecia’s blog posts because they’re always relevant, always full of hope and life. In this case, she reblogged a post that spoke to her, and so I’m reblogging her reblog. It speaks to me because people I love are in painful places. They need to know this.

A Life Sanctified

I like birds. God sometimes uses them to slow me down … but that’s a whole other post.

I think you’ll love this Guest Post by Brandon Andress which was originally published on September 14, 2016 on his site www.brandonandress.com. Please pay him a visit, he’s rather gifted with the written word.

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I have begun the process of changing my mind about birds.

Sure, you may not find a stranger first sentence than that, but those closest to me know that I have this unreasonable phobia of the feathered friend. It has something to do with a mother bird dive-bombing my head to protect her nest when I was five. And no, to answer your question, I was not bothering her nest. I was simply going next door to a friend’s house. But, there is no reasoning with a mother bird. Anyway, my neurosis aside, I am slowly taking…

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