MEMORIAL DAY HONORS

 

 

MEMORIAL DAY HONORS

 

THE COST OF FREEDOM

 

 

 

At your BBQs at your PARADES

at your FESTIVALS at your CHURCHES,

 

please take time to remember all those who've gone before

 

 

"I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country."

Nathan Hale

 

 

THE COST OF FREEDOM

 

 

FOR LOVE OF GOD

FOR LOVE OF COUNTRY

FOR LOVE OF PURPOSE

 

 

 

 

 

Come talk to Lorraine Beaty

Welcome to Lorraine and a little about Restoring His Heart

 

Lorraine Beatty is a multi-published, bestselling author born and raised in Columbus, Ohio. She’s also lived in Erlangen, Germany, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Baton Rouge, Louisiana and currently resides in Brandon, Mississippi. Married to her high school sweetheart, she and husband Joe have two grown sons and five grandchildren.

She has been writing since Junior High School and has contributed feature articles to several books on Television History, and written for magazines, newspapers and company newsletters. She currently writes for Love Inspired books. A longtime member of RWA, and ACFW. She is a charter member and former president of Magnolia State Romance Writers, the local Mississippi Chapter of RWA.

Away from writing she is a long time member of  her church choir, loves to garden, spend time with her grandchildren, and travel.

 

Restoring His Heart

 

After he crashes his sports car into a gazebo, Adam Holbrook is sentenced to thirty days rebuilding – definitely not Adam’s usual glamorous lifestyle. But when Laura Durrant, the contractor scheduled to help him, shows up, everything changes. Suddenly Adam wouldn’t mind an extended sentence. And no one’s more surprised by this change in attitude than Adam. As they work amid the sawdust and sweat, Laura teaches him about more than carpentry. She teaches him everything he’s missed out on – a family, a relationship with God and maybe even love.

Excerpt

Laura turned and glared. The loveliness on her face gone.

“I assume you have something else to wear other than a tuxedo? We’ll be doing real work today, Mr. Holbrook. This won’t be a party.”

Her attitude irked Adam. He started to say something smart, but remembered Mr. Durrant’s request for respect. Something she’d said suddenly clicked into place. “We?”

Laura Durrant placed her hands on her hips and took a step toward him. “We. You’ll be under my supervision for the duration of your sentence. I’ll be showing you how to rebuild what you destroyed, and I want to get started today if that’s all right with you.”

Adam looked over her head to her father. There was a knowing and sympathetic smile on his face. He shrugged.

My daughter is a skilled carpenter and contractor. Trust me. She knows her stuff.” He took his daughter’s arm and tugged her along with him out of the room. “We’ll leave you to get ready. Don’t take too long.”

Why Lorraine wrote the book

I heard a song lyric about a guy who’d experienced every thrill on the planet – mountain climbing, sky diving etc but falling in love was a thrill more amazing that anything else. What a great love story. A man who has it all who finds loves surpasses any other adventure.

Question for you our readers and viewers

In books it’s easy to have a character grasp and embrace a difficult concept such as discovering love is more important than wealth. But is it that simple in real life?

 You can chat with Lorraine

Lorraine Beatty

Love is Always the Answer

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Some of Lorraine's books

Beautiful Dreamer  - Heartsong  November 2012

Rekindled Romance -  LI April 2013 - top pick  RT

Restoring His Heart – LI June 2013 4*RT

Plantation Christmas Weddings – September 2013

Happy Mother's Day

Star of the New Moon ~~ A tribute to my mother  

By LoRee Peery

 

 

~There is no one so special as a mom

Since we wouldn't be here without one~

LaVera Reikofski Mosel was a beautiful woman, inside and out. Classy and sophisticated, she looked like the movie stars she modeled her clothing, hair, and makeup after. When Mom was a teenager she worked at the New Moon Theatre in Neligh, Nebraska, and could study those stars of the silver screen to her heart’s content. That’s where she met my father in the late forties, when he took a date to a show.

My absolute favorite family photograph from childhood is of me sitting on Mom’s lap while she read to me. It was taken at Grandpa Mosel’s and we were sitting on an oak dining room chair in front of the buffet. Mom’s eyebrows were arched and penciled, her lips painted, and her hair rolled up and away from her face. I wore a dress accented by a white lace collar, white socks, and leather sandals. We were both engrossed in the book, and there was another closed book underneath, waiting its turn to be read. Mom’s lower lip protruded with whatever she was speaking. My brows were knit and my mouth worked in concentration (probably wishing I was four, so I could read it myself). The snapshot captured her love of reading and her pleasure in passing that love on.

The photo also revealed Mom’s talent as a seamstress, evident in my red taffeta dress. Mom expressed her creativity in sewing and decorating. She sewed aprons for her various waitress uniforms, matching or accenting them, trimmed in lace or rickrack. I remember pink, turquoise, and black nylon dresses, which showed off her tiny waist.

 

We lived in the country near Brunswick when I was a preschooler. My first memory is of a vanity Mom made me from orange crates. She sewed a ruffle curtain of red calico fabric to keep my treasures private. She also made curtains for the whole house, even one to hide the sink pipes.

Her creativity extended beyond sewing. Once when my 4-H group met at our house, Mom had nothing for a sweet treat. She cut down the amount of cold water in Jell-O and made cookie cutter shapes that we could eat with our fingers. No other mother I knew did that in the fifties.

Mom worked hard. A typical farmer’s wife of the times, she put up pickles, preserves, tomatoes, tomato sauce, green beans, plums, peaches, and pears. Corn was frozen and potatoes put in the cave, some to sprout for planting the next spring. She baked yummy desserts like pineapple upside-down cake. My culinary attempts never came close to her results. Mom couldn’t cut a cake straight, and I think of her each time my knife curves offline when I attempt the task.

Many teenaged girls are embarrassed to be seen with their mothers. I was proud to walk next to mine, and hoped that I would look as good as she did some day. We didn’t talk about boys or sex. She said she trusted me. What a responsibility!

Mom kept her own feelings inside and didn’t talk about her family problems any more than she would gossip about the neighbors up the road. She limited talk about other people, and made it positive. When I was a teen yakking with a friend on the phone, she cautioned me, “What you say today may come back to haunt you tomorrow.”

Best of all, Mom knew and loved Jesus.

How much of the woman I am today has to do with who my mother was? I would like to think that I am the star of something, maybe our acreage near Walton. Whatever it may be, if my children think of me the way I remember my mother, then I am blessed.

Proverbs 31:28 ~ “Her children arise and call her blessed.”