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By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills After boarding a night flight from Houston to South Carolina, I removed my laptop from its sleeve and went to work, immediately losing track of everything around me except the story unfolding in my mind and on the screen. The time came for me to stow my laptop. I slipped it into its sleeve and placed …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills How do you view God in your life? Decaffeinated means to have most or all the caffeine removed, usually from coffee or tea. For some, that says the power, punch, and purpose of coffee no longer exists. When I consider caffeine as a stimulant of the central nervous system, I think about how God stimulates the …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Release day is HERE!!! A race from danger . . . straight into the arms of love. Delve into the secrets of UNDER A DESERT SKY. In 1935, Eva Fortier’s escape from danger leads her to the high desert of Ghost Ranch, NM. Meet Tahoma Benally, a Navajo doctor, bound by a promise and drawn to …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills In the sixth grade, my teacher set aside part of my recess time to work on my handwriting. Do you have a clue to the difficulty others found and still find in deciphering my pitiful penmanship? This grade-A student always received a U for unsatisfactory until I finished grade school. By then, the teachers gave up. …
DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Guest Post: Leilani Squires “I think I want to be a writer,” teenager me said to one of my heroes. “Do you have any advice?” Jill Briscoe paused between bites of brunch. “Learn as many styles of writing as you can,” she said, looking me in the eyes. “Then, no matter what kind of genre is of …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills As we bid farewell to the holiday season, we treasure cherished memories, sweet experiences, laughter, an unexpected gift, and some moments best forgotten. Many of us feel a sense of melancholy, the anticipation of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day are replaced by the ho-hum of the months ahead. The post-holiday blues are depressing but take …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills In this season of celebration, may love, joy, peace, and hope wrap you in a warm embrace. Praying you see the light of God in unexpected places and hear His whispers of wisdom guiding your every step. With anticipation in our hearts for the new year, trust in the God who fills our lives with purpose. …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills DiAnn Mills Friend, please don’t open the unwanted Christmas gift of stress. The black paper and black bow with an attaching-grabbing tag, Open Me First will spoil your celebration. You’ll recognize the items inside: Friend, cut short any family or friend events. You have too much work to do. Friend, stress is your friend. If you …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills The Tuesday after Thanksgiving is National Day of Giving for many charities in the USA and the world. Perhaps you refer to the day as Giving Hope Day, Celebrate Generosity Day, or Day of Giving. In the USA, we’ve just celebrated a feast of thankfulness for God’s blessings. We pray for God to smile on us …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Thanksgiving is a time to enjoy family and friends, to put people first, and celebrate the blessings God has given us. The best advice I can give is to unplug—That means turning off the busyness of the outside world by silencing our phones and other electronic devices. Determine to participate in old-fashioned, face-to-face conversation. I hear …
