Falling for Books: The Introduction

Dear Blog Readers,

Starting tomorrow (Sept. 23) the Fall Season will arrive in the United States! 

It's time for sweet potato or pumpkin pie, caramel apple cider, pumpkin spice lattes (though I've never had one, my friends with a Starbucks habit look forward to it every year) and plenty of beautiful backgrounds for photography opportunities if you live in an area where the tree leaves change into vibrant colors of red, orange and yellow! I love the Autumn/Fall season weather because of its sunny days, cool breezes, crisp air, and perfection everywhere!

In celebration of this delightful season, I'm starting a new series on my blog for Fall 2018. The series is called "Falling for Books" and it's going to be AWESOME!  

Every Sunday in Fall 2018 (from Sept. 23 to Dec. 16), you'll find a new Christian author who's visiting to talk about their book in a variety of special features that include author interviews, character interviews, devotionals based on their book, personal essays about the fall season and how it ties into their book's message or theme, book reviews and story excerpts!

By now you must know that Contemporary Romance is my favorite genre to promote on my blog but there's also room this Fall season for historicals, romantic suspense and women's fiction stories to be featured here on my blog. You should also know that the authors who visit my blog love to give away free copies of the books that we feature here! Yes, book giveaway contests are a part of this "Falling for Books" series. Happiness for your heart, right? 

So grab your favorite fall beverage, go to your favorite reading nook and soak in these fun features on my blog!

Love,

Alexis

Founder of God is Love (blog)

Thankful Thursday: Thanksgiving Day 2014 edition

Top 10 Things I'm Thankful for today:

1) Peace in my heart

2) God's Love

3) Quality time with family

4) Holiday greetings from friends

5) Delicious Thanksgiving dinner

6) Sweet potato pie (my grandma's recipe is the BEST)

7) My favorite famous musicians 

8) The Fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23)

9) My Best Friend for Life (Jesus Christ)

10) ALL of God's blessings! 

What are you thankful for?

Thankful Thursday: Family Matters

It's Thursday and I'm thankful to celebrate Thanksgiving Day with loved ones because family matters!

Here in America we celebrate Thanksgiving every November, this year it was celebrated today, Nov. 28. We're known for gathering with family around a feast laden table usually filled with turkey, cranberry sauce, collard greens or green bean casserole, corn on the cob, potato salad, fresh dinner rolls of bread with butter and the list goes on! 

Sitting around the dining room table at my grandma's house today I found myself being thankful for the blessing of family and for God keeping us through another year to celebrate thanksgiving together. Some people, my grandma said today, don't even have family to celebrate Thanksgiving with so she's grateful that she has us. Awe, how sweet!

Now pumpkin pie is considered the classic American Thanksgiving dinner dessert but that's not how we do it, we have my grandma's famous sweet potato pie--so smooth and savory that you wish you had an entire pie, not just one slice, to yourself! Yes, it is that good!

My aunt surprised me this Thanksgiving with a red velvet cake with vanilla icing which she baked especially for me because it's one of my favorite desserts and my aunt can bake like the best professionals around so I'm always grateful when I get to taste food she made. I love surprises that have a lot of thought and heart behind them and that is what my aunt did for me today!

Whether you live in America and celebrate Thanksgiving Day or not, I hope you will find time today to be quiet and think about what you're thankful for in life.

May God bless you today, tomorrow and always!