End-of-the-Year Celebration DAY 3!

The winner of Day 2's giveaway (Meander Scar, The Seeker, A Love of Her Own) is:

Virginia!! (vrush729@...)

Congratulations!

Lets get started with today's festivities! Today, I'm featuring authors Vickie McDonough, and Susan Page Davis!!

What is one thing or area where God has been changing you in 2010? Do you have any scriptures to go along with/support that?

Vickie: He’s been teaching me to lean on him more and to not do things on my own. Do you have any scriptures to go along with/support that? Proverbs 3:5 & 6: Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

Susan: This has been a year of changes and new perspectives. Many times I’ve asked God to show me what is important in His eyes. Micah 6:8 tells us, “He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Tell one thing that God did for you this year just to show He loved you.

Vickie: I don’t know that I could pinpoint one single thing, because He did many things.

Susan: We have adopted two animals this year (a cat and a horse), and both have brought joy to our family.

What is your favorite memory from 2010?


Vickie: My husband and I, our four boys, my dil, and our granddaughter went together and rented a cabin on Table Rock Lake for two days. One day we all went to Silver Dollar City. It’s the first time since our oldest son married and our boys were grown that we’d all gotten away together. It was a very special time, especially since our #3 son was leaving. He is now deployed to Egypt for a year.


Susan: Entering our new home together.


Do you have any New Year resolutions in mind?

Vickie: Yes, I have a number of books to write this year, and my goal is to get each one done and turned in on time.


Susan: Not really. Every year I just want to do my best as God allows me to. I don’t make formal resolutions, but I always have goals.


What is one goal you have set (or God has put on your heart) for 2011 apart from New Year resolutions?


Vickie: To do a better job in having a daily devotional and time in prayer. I’m the kind of person who jumps out of bed and gets right to work, so I have a habit of thinking I’ll do my devotions later in the day, but work tends to keep me busy, and I forget. I want to do better in that area.

Susan: To see my two youngest children safely through some important milestones in their lives.

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Giveaway! These authors, along with authors Judith Miller and Lisa Wingate, have generously offered these 4 books to one lucky winner!

Wild West Christmas, by Vickie McDonough

Somewhere to Belong, by Judith Miller

The Blacksmith's Bravery, autographed, by Susan Page Davis

Larkspur Cove, autographed, by Lisa Wingate

Rules:

For this party, only people with USA mailing addresses can enter. You must leave your email address in order to be entered so that I can contact you if you win.

Mandatory first entry: You must be a Google Friend Connect follower (in sidebar) of this blog, OR be an email subscriber (in sidebar) to this blog to enter this giveaway. Let me know in your comment to enter (with your email address) which you are.

Extra Entries:

+1 Post the link for this giveaway on Facebook and/or Twitter. (If you do both, that is +2)

+1 GFC follow or email subscribe to my other blog, Christian Book Giveaways.

+1 Put the buttons for one or both of my blogs on your blog. (You can get the HTML in my sidebar.) If you put both buttons up, that is +2.


+1 For every friend you get to come, enter this giveaway, and say that you sent them. (Make sure they use a name that I can connect with you. I want to make sure the extra points go to the right person!


+2 Post about this giveaway on your blog, telling which books will be given away.

+3 Leave a comment for at least one of the authors in this giveaway encouraging them with something you like about them personally, their writing, or one of their books.

I have one special way to gain extra entries, so pay close attention… For every day that the banner for this End-of-the-Year Celebration at the TOP of your blog (starting the 22nd) it will count as +1 entry towards the final blowout giveaway on the 30th and 31st. That means you can earn up to 10 more entries in the final giveaway!!! You can grab the banner’s HTML HERE.

This giveaway ends tomorrow (Monday, December 27) at 6 p.m. CST. I will try to promptly contact the winner after that time. Winners will be announced in the next morning’s post.