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May - June 2007 Travel Tips: Lost luggage is a problem no one wants to encounter especially on your trip to your destination. Overall, 6.5 pieces of luggage are lost per 1,000 passengers. That doesn't sound too bad unless the suitcase with all your clothes is lost and you are on a ship headed for another destination where you can only hope your luggage will arrive ahead of you. Here are some tips to help locate your bags:
Traveling with Your Computer?
On the World Wide Web: Writer's Wanderings
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Greetings Family and
Friends! It has been a busy month of May so this newsletter is getting a slow start. We celebrated Bob's "retirement" on May 5 with a dinner. Actually, he is still working but only part-time for the new owner of the company. Do men ever really retire? Actually, I think he's working overtime at home to plan our travel adventures. I have been speaking a lot this month in Ohio and West Virginia so I am truly ready for another getaway. Next on the agenda is a cruise to Tahiti and Hawaii with some family members. (Report due in next edition of Journeys.) To those who are keeping count, our sixth grandchild is due to arrive in Miami in October. We hope to know soon whether to think pink or blue. Not much is new on the publishing front. I still await news on the novel proposal (In a Pickle) that is collecting dust on a few editors desks and have had a few more rejections on my book about encouragement (SMILE Power). But that's a writer's life--more rejection than publication. Why do I do this? Oh, right. Something to do with God's finger in my back pushing me forward. Smiles, Karen My productive Barnabas Group (read The Power of Encouragement): The Great American Supper Swap--Trish Berg Parenting Power in the Early Years--Brenda Nixon Stained Glass Pickup--Cathy Messecar Reality Motherhood--Leslie Wilson Garden columnist--Terra Hangen
Smiles: One of the guests at my husband's retirement dinner gave him a card that included a note to me that said: "Don't look at this as having your husband underfoot all day. Just imagine you have a personal full-time manservant." Right. . . Note: If you've enjoyed this newsletter, please forward it on to a friend. They can subscribe at my website.
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The Power of Encouragement Hebrews 3:13 says "Encourage one another daily. . ." A little over two years ago, I was convinced that it was time to give up this writing thing. Sure, I'd published a novel, and over 100 other articles, columns, essays, etc. but I hit a dry spell and wasn't publishing anything for a long time. I figured it was time to quit--that it was God's way of saying "okay you've had enough." I went to what I thought would be my last Christian writers conference and sat in the middle of the beautiful Wheaton campus telling God that it was all right that He wanted me to quit. I didn't need all that rejection in my life anyway. I could find something much more fun to do. At the end of the week, I was still not sure of what to do but I went home with a recommendation that I look into an online writers forum that had just begun. On the forum, I hooked up with a lady from Ohio who was starting a "Barnabas group." It was to be a group of writers that would come together online for nothing more than to encourage one another. Eventually we became a group of six--three ladies from Ohio, two from Texas and one from California. We began encouraging each other daily through e-mails. When someone gets a rejection, we lift them up through prayer and praise. When one of us has some success, we lead the cheers. It has fueled the energy and excitement in our writing and we have all made great strides in our writing careers since coming together. Encouragement is powerful. It can be life changing. Is there someone you know today who might need a smile from you, a word of praise, or just a listening ear?
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