Brain Dump

Baffling. Why would law abiding citizens fight to keep criminals free to do what they want in their midst? Why won't law abiding citizens allow law enforcement to do their job, removing criminals? Why would law abiding citizens defend murders, assaulters of all kinds, child and women abusers, thieves, and law breaking offenders? What kind of backward thinking supports vile monsters and demonizes those trying to remove them from society? Why would any one risk death for those who would deal out death should the opportunity arise, because they've done it before? It isn't good to support evil. It isn't honorable to stand for law breakers. It isn't noble to harass, impede, or otherwise interfere with law enforcement personnel doing their job, attempting to make the world a little safer by removing those who make it more dangerous. The inanity and evil is escalating. It's difficult to ask for God's mercy when His laws are being violated by those who are willfully doing so and those who pretend they are more compassionate than God. Repent, before it's too late. 

Today is Chocolate Cake Day

Celebrate with a story. 

Chocolate Cake for Two

The second novella in the series.

Welcome back to Holiday, USA, small town America, where nothing happens, except holidays... and maybe a little romance, if the hero and heroine trust God.

Freed, after being wrongly imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Henry Weaver needs a fresh start. The "Help Wanted" sign in the cupcake shop window couldn't possibly be the answer to his prayer.

Holiday Sweets, a specialty cupcake shop, is Annie Sweet's heritage. Everything would be perfect if only she could find competent help. An ultimatum demands Annie make a painful decision.

Choosing God is rarely the easy way, and sometimes the way to Happily Ever After appears impossible...

http://www.amazon.com/Chocolate-Cake-Two-Holiday-USA-ebook/dp/B00HYLK0P8/ref=sr_1_1

If you prefer paperback, Holiday, USA Anthology 2014

All four novellas published in 2014 are available in their entirety in paperback, including the covers on the back, for those who enjoy collecting a series.

http://www.amazon.com/Holiday-USA-Anthology-2014-1/dp/150773 

Tomorrow is Chocolate Cake Day

 

Created by Donna Keevers Driver for Laurel Hawkes

Thank Goodness It's Sunday

~ Visiting friends

~ Favorite books

~ Lovely weather

~ Butterfly bushes

~ God's grace       

Brain Dump

Mars is the machine planet, the only planet populated by 2 lone rovers, sent there by people here on earth. Just a fun fact. 

TBR 2026

6.  Honor's Love Song (Hobby Run series Book 4) by Arlene James Christian romance. In this series, Arlene tackles one of the most serious sins, breaking the law of chastity. God doesn't measure one sin better or worse than another. Sin is sin. However, the reason sins of a sexual nature are more grievous is because we are demeaning, degrading, trivializing, mocking God's gift of the power of creation to His children. It is meant to make a husband and wife one flesh and to bring children into the world. Anything else is reducing creation to a nothing moment of pleasure or a way to control, humiliate, reduce someone else. The adversary encourages making common the power and beauty God created. It breaks God's heart. It is for this and every other sin that Jesus Christ suffered and died for us. It is because of Jesus Christ, His Atonement, that it is possible to place all sin in the passed and start over new and clean.

Point of clarification: Abuse survivors do not need to repent of what was done to them. The Atonement is for them as much as anyone but through grieving and forgiving - not giving the abuser absolution but the abused giving the anger and bitterness and hurt and humiliation to Jesus. Let Jesus carry the load; it's too heavy for us.

7. Fidelity's Love Song (Hobby Run series Book 5) by Arlene James Christian romance. Unfaithful Matt is quite a change from honorable Charlie. Arlene doesn't sanitize the sin but creates stories that reflect the variations people spin on sin and how Jesus covers it all if we give ourselves to Him. 

8. A Courageous Love Song (Hobby Run series Book 6) by Arlene James Christian romance. More of the wonder and power of repentance. 

9. A Love Song in Quarantine (Hobby Run series Book 7) by Arlene James Christian romance. Most of the romance novels avoided the quarantine of 2020. I thought Arlene managed to depict the situations without diving into politics. 

10. The Liar's Love Song (Hobby Run series Book 8) by Arlene James Christian romance. Includes a brief description of an assault, for those who are sensitive to those topics. Again, I love how the Christians are imperfect and trying their best, and the precious journey of unbeliever to believer. 

REAL 19 Jan 2026

Short walks. Physical therapy. Eating okay, not great, but it's been worse. Sleep is all over the place. Finally stepped on the scale again (been a few months), a starting point, right back where I was five years ago. No surprise, really. I'm making changes, which is stressful and often leads to stuffing until I feel more in control. 

Thank Goodness It's Sunday

~ Dear friends

~ Gospel study

~ Lovely weather

~ Good books 

~ God's grace       

Brain Dump

I live in a desert. Living in a desert means a lack of water. So, we're starting at a deficit. Keep that in mind. One of our cities recently voted down building an AI data center. Now, the main reason cited was the noise, a constant hum from the data centers already present. The community's citizens hate it. Glad they stopped it. Will another community make the mistake of volunteering to take the place? Reminder: We live in a desert that is in a 30-year drought. AI data centers require copious amounts of water. Where are they going to acquire the needed water? Will they deprive people for the sake of AI? They - the ones who want to build said facilities - have said they would. To even consider building such a center in a place already struggling with the water supply is insane and maybe even disturbing and possibly nefarious. God have mercy. 

A friend shared this on Social Media

The Woman at the Well

It was not the water that he came for. 

It was me.

REAL 12 Jan 2026

Started the week with a couple short walks, and then it rained. PT is being done. Eating and sleeping are okay - room for improvement. Self-talk isn't great - needs work.