“Better Than Fiction” Guest: Tricia Goyer

  I’m happy to welcome Author Tricia Goyer to Simple Revelations. She’s giving us a glimpse today into one of the true love stories from the Titanic from her original post (found here).     Even in horrific events such as the Titanic disaster amazing stories emerge. Stories of heroics, stories of survival, and even stories of love. There were over a dozen newly married couples on board the grand ship, and many more...

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Caught

  We hear that word (“caught”) and we think… or    or Caught.   A few weeks ago, I was listening to a song with this line:   “A thousand times I’ve failedStill your mercy remainsAnd should I stumble againStill I’m caught in your grace”   that word caught me. It turned in my mind until the beautiful opposites of two of the word’s connotations stood against each other:   (1) all of the...

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Better Than Fiction Guest Post: Olivia Newport

It’s my joy to welcome author Olivia Newport back today to share a story from her own family history that has inspired an entire soon-to-be-released novel! Love in the Generations The beaming woman in this picture is my sister. And what’s not to beam about? She is holding Eloise, her first grandchild, and Elsa, the second grandchild of our eldest brother. These two beauties were born about three weeks apart last summer. The mothers...

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Better Than Fiction Guest Post: Tricia Goyer

  I’m happy to welcome Tricia Goyer to Simple Revelations. She’s giving us four glimpses today into true love stories from the Titanic… and I’m so glad she included links to some of her sources, because I couldn’t help digging a little deeper into their lives! Take, for example, this excerpt of a letter from John Snyder (whose tale is below) to his father: “I can only tell you that I have a mighty fine wife...

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Better Than Fiction Guest Post: Tricia Goyer

Please join me in welcoming author Tricia Goyer to the blog today. Following are   Even in horrific events such as the Titanic disaster amazing stories emerge. Stories of heroics, stories of survival, and even stories of love. There were over a dozen newly married couples on board the grand ship, and many more couples who were impacted by the tragedy. Among those are these touching stories of love.      ...

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And the winner is…

I hosted my very first Facebook giveaway this week. If you entered, thank you so much for stopping by! I used random.org to choose a winner off of the list of entrants. And the winner of an Adavance Reader Copy of Be Still My Soul by Joanne Bischof is…   Libbi Hartwig!! Libbi, I’ll e-mail you with more information.     And if you didn’t win this time, be sure to stay tuned to the Hope Chronicles Event for a chance to win...

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