the Life and Times of Miss Madison

I sit at my desk wondering what to do. I am unhappy with my life and tired of the endless goals in the games I play on Facebook. My book which has  been out since January hasn't been sold much and as I pray, I ask God, should I just give a tenth?  Both Matthew, Luke and Mark wrote the account of the four soils Jesus taught to the people and as I ponder that I wonder if I should  not give more than a tenth since it was obvious that Jesus said what the seed is--The Word of God. There is nothing wrong with giving. In fact Paul quoted Jesus's words not recorded in the gospel, " It is more blessed  to give than to receive."  What you give is the question. You can give your time or your talent if you don't have money. People give of their time and talents  by volunteering.  In the book of Deuteronomy, Moses directed the people to give according to how God has blessed you. I don't feel very blessed. I have given to ministries and have not received anything as a har

I have been writing stories for awhile  especially since my first book is out and  I hope that people will order Marge. Becoming an author has always been a dream and it has come to pass.  One genre I have always been interested in is Mysteries and I decided to have my own series called  The Serena Madison Files. I have one completed and ready to be submitted but this time I decided to go in search of agents.  After I found one and I copied and pasted chapter 1, I had forgotten to save it on my word proc and therefore as a result I am missing four pages.  I was prepared to send a chapter to another agent when I found that out.  I could never rewrite anything the way it was written in the first place so I decided to see if I copied and pasted it as a note on Facebook. Sure enough I did, but the question is: How many pages are Chapter 1? I sent several pages to Northern Lights  Literary Agency hoping that was Chapter 1. Now I am wondering if I should concentrate one my third story and ge

If you are like me, you think you know you deserve better!  People say you shouldn't  ask for. Your whole life has been a  struggle. Your parents or one of your parents has put you outside God's perfect will and so you live a less than normal life.  Some may say, "How do you know  that you are not where God wants you.?" I know that He  doesn't want us to struggle.  WE are only suppose to labor until his rest.  Toiling is because of the curse and not the under the curse because Christ has redeemed  me from the curse of the Law. Yes I do deserve better! And so do you who have lived with parents  who didn't provide the best for you. Our Heavenly father is a perfect example of how our earthly father should be and our heavenly father gives good and perfect gifts! God will make up more than enough for what you should have gotten. My life   has been very difficult and I have struggled everyday to succeed, Maybe I missed something, but I am listening. Listening t

I am sure glad my Heavenly father is not a God of Chaos.  He orders everything the way he planned it. It  has not been that way for me.  Just recently, our toilet overflowed every time its flushed. None of us are plumbers so none of us knows what to do but send a friend a message to help us.  Problem is he wasn't on FB and we could not wait. We decided to go out and try the Chicken McBites at McDonalds so that we could use their restrooms. Some restaurants don't like you using them without paying for something. After  we returned home, we still had the problem. We thought maybe call a plumber but  with my mom's money, it was postponed. Thank God for Wisdom! My sister is the one  who tries to fix household problems so God gave her the wisdom to handle our plumbing problem---use the vacuum cleaner to vacuum the water in the septic tank and it has worked. You see James wrote that if we need wisdom  we should ask him for it without doubting.  Problems are made worst when  we tr

I need to blow some steam. I have found out something I do not like about Social Networks--memorializing and making someone BIG.  Don't get me wrong. I think Tim Tebow is great because God gave him success. I have told my friends how they feel  and they don't just get it. Have they always been a Tebow fan  or  did they  just become his fan when they heard he was a Christian?   It was a hard week for me or even month! Day after Day and night after night, I see "TEBOW!" "TEBOW!" and so forth! Enough to make me a gag. And now the death of... You guessed it. Whitney has been graced with a beautiful voice but one wonders if someone who loves the Lord so much why was she ravaged with drugs?  You can also guessed that I am also not a big fan of her or her music and now I have to suffer through videos and links being posted as well as  many status updates. I guess there isn't anything  good to  talk about it is there? If I  didn't need to be on FB, I would

I am an up and coming author and  I have one book published but it is not enough. I know it cost money to create your own website so I am at lost as to what to do.  I heard so much  about wordpress.com  but I am close to cancelling my account there. Why? Because something doesn't feel right. I know that if I want to have all the benefits I have to pay and I don't have the money. So what do I? I know what I should have done  and that is to pray. Because when I do that, I know that I will have peace. Lord, forgive me for not seeking you. More than that, forgive me  for not trusting you enough that my book will sell big!  I think that is what I am most scared about because what if it don't sell big?  I can hear the Lord say to me, "Where is your faith?" I guess I am like Peter walking on the water. As soon as I  lose focus, I start to lose faith. Lord, help me keep my eyes on you! I blog here because its free. I blog at wordpress because I know people who do and whe

My father wasn't the most pleasant person to live. He was cheap, stingy, selfish and greedy, but one thing I can say about him being around, the house was kept in order. My sister lived according to what he expected because she was the one  who cleaned the house. In order to  make him happy (Because he saw her as nothing else), she  did a good job of keeping the house clean. One other thing is I have seen that I am somewhat like him--It bugs me when the house isn't cleaned and since he died, we have lived like slobs.  It isn't  that we like  living in a  house not clean or kept tidy. My sister has been burnt out. She felt unappreciated by all she did so when he died, so did the willingness to keep the house on an up and up. You may ask, why don't you do it, but she will not have it and say "I'll get to it!" Sometimes I have to keep asking her  when she will do the wash. All our dirty clothes  lie in a pile I calla  mountain and all my clean clothes? In th

I wish I was gifted enough to write a well written mystery from a first person point of view but as I have researched about writing a mystery using the 1st person POV, I had already broken one rule and that is the overuse of the pronoun I. I had no idea that was not a good idea.  Two sources says that I need to get into their head and show   my readers what she or he is feeling and experiencing. I say to my Lord, "Jesus, this is way over my head and I really want to do this!" Have you ever felt that way? I have and I can hear a voice telling me "You can't do it!"  The cry of my heart is  to have a mentor who can help me every step of the way.  I feel alone in this because most of my  writing friends, have developed their craft. I have only written and published one story and it was written from the third person of view. As I go to bed tonight, I will commit it into His hands and trust his timing. I had a dream this morning and maybe it applies: I was riding  a b

I have always loved mysteries and guessing who did it! One of my favorite Mystery Authors  was Agatha Christie, esp the Herecule  Perot series.  I haven't read a good one in a long time and began reading people I would never thought reading--Mary Higgins Clark and one I never heard of--Joanna Fluke. Both were  seasonal books  and I really needed a book not based around the holidays. I found at the Library a book called The Way of The Guilty... I have already written a  fifty page mystery which I hope an agent will see it as a Christian Mystery and it  is not based  from a first person point of view. It is called "Serena's Surprise" because  she finds out who is  involved is more than just a criminal.  I decided after completing that one that I would try another Serena Madison story but this time based from another person's point of view--First Person.  I did not know I  should avoid using "I" as much as possible because using "I" like  "