Winter 2011Grammy’s Goodies:
(I have three grandkids. Here are their latest gems)
Madi, age 2: Her
Sunday School teacher pointed to a poster of Ezra reading from a scroll
and said, “Look, Madi, Ezra is reading the Bible.”
She’s nobody’s fool: “Dass not a Bible. Dass a MAP!”
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Simple Dairy Free Pumpkin Pie 
So many people are discovering later in life, as I did, that milk
products disagree with their digestion. If you have lactose intolerant
or dairy allergic guests coming for Thanksgiving or a fall dinner party
you can serve this traditional old harvest time standby – good old
punkin pie – that everyone will love and no one will get a tummy ache!
Simple, Fast, Dairy Free Pumpkin Pie: easy to make and the best you’ll ever eat Read More
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cavanaugh's Picks
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TO WATCH:
Soul Surfer is a 2011 American drama film about the life of professional surfer, Bethany
Hamilton. At the age of thirteen, Hamilton lost her arm to a shark
attack. The film details the events surrounding this attack and her
struggle during the aftermath. The title refers to a term coined in the
1960s to denote someone who surfs purely for pleasure, but the word
soul has a double meaning as a reference to Hamilton's Christian faith,
which helped her recover her surfing career after the attack.
The day after
watching the movie Soul Surfer for the first time, I had the pleasure
of meeting Bethany Hamilton in Atlanta GA at the 2011 International
Christian Retail Show.Read More
TO READ

Sanctuary of the Soul by Richard Foster, author
of Celebration of Discipline (1.5 million sold). I was pleased to
receive a signed copy from the man himself at ICRS. This is a book you
want to read slowly, consider carefully, and then let it influence your
thinking and inform your theology. If you are ready to move a little
deeper in your relationship with Jesus, this book is for you. Read More

When Worlds Collide: stepping up and standing out in an anti-God culture by Mike and Daniel Blackaby. To
find such a rich balance of wisdom and wit is rare; to find it in two
young men in their twenties is even more so. Their self-effacing humor
and boyish charm is winsome, but it’s the solid writing and the firm
grasp on how to follow God through the tough stuff that makes this book
a page turner for a far wider audience than college kids. This message,
packaged with enough mirth to bring out the sun on your darkest day,
crosses genders and generations because it packs a wallop of truth in
the wrapping of hilarity. Read More

Office Exercizes
If you work at a desk, try deep abdominal breathing every hour:
• Sit up straight with your shoulders back, hands on stomach
• Push stomach out and breath in through nose, feel lungs filling up
• Hold it for 5 to 10 seconds
Breathe it all out through your mouth as the shoulders drop.
Exercises provided by health and wellness expert Kimberley Payne at Within Reach.

How to become a Writer!
About once a week someone asks me “So, how did you become a writer?”
What they really mean is, “How can I become a writer?” Mary DeMuth’s
clever article gives good insight into the writing life:
How Publishing Is Like A 7Th Grade Dance
By Mary DeMuth www.marydemuth.com/
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connie's New Book
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In
her first book, From Faking it to Finding Grace, Connie chronicled her
journey out of deep spiritual dryness. Now, wherever she goes, people
confide that they, too, wrestle with struggles, doubts, and unbelief.
In response, Connie has written Following God One Yes at a Time to
encourage believers who want to start moving forward again that they
can begin, right now, right where they are. Connie explains that
obeying God doesn’t have to be a daunting prospect Instead,
believers can view obedience to God as a series of “yes” answers to His
leading in their lives.
Read a humourous excerpt
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