Wasabi Wednesday – STEPPING INTO SUNLIGHT by Sharon Hinck
Captain's Log, Stardate 09.03.2008
Wasabi Wednesday blog book giveaway:
To enter to win today’s books, leave a comment on this blog post, giving your name and answering the Wasabi Wednesday question. International readers are welcome to enter!
Please leave an email address or website where I can contact you (please use this format--you [at] yourmail.com--or something like that to prevent spammers from trolling for your email address). It is the winner’s responsibility to check to see if you won and to email me if you haven’t yet heard from me.
I always email the winners and give them a week to reply, but if I don’t receive an answer, I will pull another person to win the book. I am not responsible for a lost opportunity if you leave an email address you don’t check frequently.
You have a week to comment--I'll pick the winners on Wednesday, September 10th. (BTW, you can post a comment and NOT enter, too.)
Stepping Into Sunlight
by
Sharon Hinck
One tragic event. One project of healing. One step toward hope.
Penny Sullivan is ready to face the challenge of a cross-country move and caring for her energetic seven-year-old son while her husband leaves on his first deployment as a Navy chaplain. But after she witnesses a shocking crime, her world tips sideways.
Hiding in her closet isn't an option when her husband and son depend on her, so she fights to recover. But even simple tasks such as filling her car with gas, buying groceries, and returning phone calls are suddenly more than she can handle.
Help comes in funny packages--a temperamental DVD, a man who hoards gum wrappers, a meddlesome neighbor, and a small yellow notebook in which Penny scribbles down her recovery plan: Do one kind thing for another person every day. The results are sometimes beautiful, sometimes heartbreaking, and often lead to more than she ever could have imagined . . .
A story for every woman who has wondered where God is when life hurts.
Wasabi Wednesday question: What small steps of kindness have you done/can you do this week?
Camy here: I prayed for a very special friend last week Friday that blessed me as well as her!
How about you?
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29 comments:
I've been looking after the house while Mum's away, but I guess I could be happier to help when the kid's need help with school.
Please enter me :)
joyfuljewelz (at) gmail.com
I want to be able to exude gentleness with my kids - one day at a time.
lowe1829atsbcglobal.net
I am trying to be patient with my kids as we settle back into a homeschool routine after taking too much summertime off!
4kidsplusdog [at] gmail [dot] com
I stay at home and homeschool my kids so every day gives me plenty of opportunities to model and show kindness to them. In turn I expect them to be kind to each other!
waldenbunch[at]triad[dot]rr[dot]com
Sharon's book cover tied with Molly Bull's 'Winter Pearl' for fourth place in the Stepping Stones Magazine for Writers Book Cover Contest.
Homeschooling: It was the best decision I made for our son. I homeschooled him for high school.
I helped a co-worker with some issues that she had. I guess that's my SMALL step of kindness for today!
Do enter my name for the giveaway!
f2000501(at)yahoo(dot)com
Wasabi Wednesday Answer:
My neighbor had their first baby yesterday so I arranged meals for them so the new parents don't have to cook for a week.
I'd love to be entered in the book contest as well:
sheriboeyink[at]cox[dot]net
Thanks for the post Camy.
I went to the school and paid for my son's books for college, because he was short on money.
It's a *really* small step of kindness, but I want to give a warm, genuine smile to every retail clerk (grocery store, drugstore, bookstore, etc) I see this week. I spent a few years behind the registers myself, and I remember how a real smile and a friendly attitude could make my day back then!
Please enter me in the book contest at skerry[at]infionline.net
Camy, thanks for the reminder that small steps do matter!
Trying to be patient with my co-workers and offer to take things off their workload when they get stressed.
eazelie(at)gmail(dot)com
I'm cooking some dinners for a mom I've never met. She's a friend of a friend...and she's undergoing chemo for liver cancer.
cbeargie (at) yahoo (com)
I make my parent's bed for them each morning and unload the dishwasher -- it lessens Mom's chores a bit and gives her more time to relax.
I love Sharon Hinck's novels! Winning her latest would be close to heaven. Please, please, please throw me into the drawing!
youngster316 [at] att [dot] com
Offered to do dishes when it was my sister's turn! that's a big one!
Please enter me. I have yet to readsomething by this author.
ldneuhof at hotmail dot com
i want to try to renthink my words before they spill out of my mouth spewing frustration and rudeness, and reshape them into words of encouragement and blessing so that people are built up and not torn down in my presence.
good question :) thanks! katylinvw(at)yahoo(dot)com
I am working on patience as my children and I begin another homeschooling year.
Sarah
SeekingHim @ gmail dot com
I can be patient when answering the same question for the 10th time in ten minutes. (I teach 7th grade!)
laughinglaura_ann [at] yahoo.com
I wrote my mom an apology letter to wake up to after I was impatient with her (again).
Next Wednesday's my birthday-- it would be great to win :)
MLLoudRed [at] gmail [dot] com
Here's my Wasabi Wednesday reply -
I was the safe place for a friend needing to vent today... Being the friend who doesn't judge and knows that the opinion/comment of the day may be changed with the coming dawn, or it may be not... but I'll be a safe place and not gossip or judge.
And, thankfully, when there are times that I "need to vent," God has also put safe people in my life.
Please enter me in the drawing for Sharon's book. I've already got it on order, but would gladly share a copy with a friend.
joycehaase(at)hotmail.com or joycehaase(at)gmail.com
I stop at Sonic every morning for my daily diet coke. I have bonded with the carhops there, so yesterday I gave them a homemade chocolate dessert and they were so appreciative.
I called all of my sisters to tell them I was was thinkingof them.
I would like to enter the giveaway
Great idea, everyone!
Just a note - I created a special blog for Penny's Project (the project of small acts of kindness that the character in Stepping Into Sunlight undertake).
Please stop by to see all the other ideas folks are sharing for ways to rock our world with the love of Christ.
http://pennysproject.blogspot.com/
See you there!
Sharon Hinck
I helped my mom with my disabled dad. melodyj[at]gmail[dot]com
My daughters and I put together Fall care packages(gloves, hats, scarves, sweaters bought at season end or donated)this week for our small church.Our people are very poor and we wanted them to be warm as the cold weather approaches. Many others were a blessing by giving items or knitting/crocheting things to help meet this need!
worthy2Bpraised{at}gmail{dot}com
Doing a favor for a friend when they ask or offering to help when I see a need just because I care about the person.
Please enter me for Sharon's book.
Melissa
forest_rose[at]yahoo[dot]com
Putting the needs of my family first is a small step of kindness.
helped with the NOLA evacuees while in a local shelter
Emailed (several times) a depressed and anxious friend, sharing some down times of my own, along with Scripture. Please pray for her, initial M.
I think kindness is the most important character quality a person can develop. We all need to give and receive more of it.
I am going to pray very hard for a family where both the dad and mom were seriously injured on a motorcycle a few weeks ago. The mother is in a coma and the dad is fighting an infection in his back after surgery. Cindi
jchoppes[at]hotmail[dot]com
I have noticed over the last couple of weeks that something must have happened to one of my neighbors. I saw an ambulance in their driveway and since then I've seen nurses going over and they have tons of out of state cars coming and going. I have no idea what's happening and to whom but it started weighing on me that I need to pray and so I've been praying for the family every day and I know it's the only thing I can do right now but it's also the best thing I can do.
doot65{at}comcast[dot]net
Elizabeth
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