The Graverobber
 | The Resurrectionists
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Jesus defeated death by not staying dead. In order to not be in bondage to death, He had to die physically. But He knew, though His body was dead, that His Spirit would be alive, and in three days, the Holy Spirit, the breath of the Father, the ultimate Graverobber, would recreate His body, filling it full of the life of God so that it would never die. Death has no rule over Him because He can no longer die, and this is our guarantee of His return and our body’s resurrection. He cannot die. We are made one with Him through the love of the Father and the power of the Holy Spirit, and not through any power of our own. So we are as eternal as He is. And God’s grace did all of that.
“For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.” (Romans 8:22-23)
Celebrate His Resurrection this Easter. For though sin and death once reigned within us, through our confession of salvation, we now live eternally in healing, favor, and abundance. Glory to God the Father whose "so love" did all that!
He’d raised the dead, Lazarus-style. Josiah Crews set aside his calling when his wife died. Consumed by grief, he buried his commitment to God and any thought of the lives he might save, determined to live a mundane existence. But when the death of a man in an alley brings the power of God onto the scene, a ripple of unusual events launches him back into service.
Veronica Murray moved to a tiny apartment in the city following a troubling divorce, but her teenage daughter’s behavior combined with their low income has made her life unhappy and stressful. When her neighbor reprimands her daughter, following a particularly bad outing, a friendship forms. Except nothing is what it seems, not why people are dying, nor his reaction to it. Nor how it affects their possible future.
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An allegorical look at the gospels and the book of Acts.
For Marriages
 | "He wrote the poetry that is the love of a man for his wife."
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GOD THINKS SO HIGHLY of the family relationship that He sent His Son to become a brother, an uncle, a nephew. He gave Him to parents, Mary and Joseph, to raise and feed and teach. He who designed the husband, who formed the wife, who declared in the beginning, Go forth and multiply, replenish the earth, took on the body He created in order to save the creation He adored.
Romance is God’s idea. He wrote the poetry that is the love of a man for his wife. He formed the womb in woman to conceive and the man to hold hands with her to create in it. Intimacy was His idea, and despite the church’s reluctance to accept it, the healing of men and women from sexual abuse and relationship failure is not less in importance to our loving God. It is private and personal and should remain so, but taken to God, He is as willing and able to cleanse the heart and the mind and mend intimate things as He is of other physical and mental brokenness.
It is not a laughing matter but one which He holds dear to His heart. For as Jesus walked this earth, He loved – family, friends, people. He old jokes, made friendships. He grieved, and for this He gives comfort. He mourned and His Father gave hope. In the face of pending death, He strengthened Himself to do the will of His Father and in the garden, struggled against mental turmoil at a level so many know. Too many.
In Him is life and healing, for the body, for our emotions, for marriages. Give Him your heart, and He will give you His, and His Spirit will come within you and remake you into something new. Something that He’d intended man to be, whole and healthy, beautiful, beloved. Free.
Also Read: Poetry
SAMPLE: From them, from a husband and wife, came our redemption. God planned it this way. He formed the body for this purpose, that a woman would bear the child, that the man would hold hands with her to create it. The entire human body was made to function as it does for childbearing, and for the joys of living. We eat because God desired it. We run and climb because He wished us to do so. He wished us to have relationships, businesses, prosperity from the work of our hands. We are meant to create, to paint and sing and dance with amazing fluidity.
Liberty Unick grew up in Orangevale, the chubby girl kids made fun of. Though she's still not thin, she's turned her love of sweets into a prosperous bakery. The people who used to call her names now put their money into her pockets.
Eric Spader bought the Orangevale Nursing Home, sight unseen, wanting to help others and find his purpose in life. He's never quite gotten over his divorce two years ago. Maybe with this new venture, he can make a home and finally move on.
A happy circumstance brings him to Liberty's door, and an instant friendship blossoms. She's sweet and fun and a fabulous cook. Yet the closer they become, the more insecure it seems she is. When what matters the most is on the inside, where the chef at the bakery is fast becoming the best part of starting over.
Background Image by GrumpyBeere from Pixabay
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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
www.suzannedwilliams.com
www.feelgoodromance.com
And - "One Thousand Winks" by Laura J. Marshall
 | "Man is made from her, and she was made from him."
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ALL THINGS DELICATE were made by Him, to be delicate. To flutter in the breeze. To filter the sunlight. To bend beneath the weight of the dew, formed upon it. All things intricate were created by Him, to be intricate, precise, complicated. Fascinating. To require looking, searching, knowing, to understand them. All things sensual were created by Him, to draw the eye, to moisten the tongue, to bring longing to the emotions. To love to hold, to grasp, to take part in. Marriage was His design, and the love that forms it, holds it together, and the longing that brings it together, that replicates husband and wife as the eyes of their children. And the touch that is it, and the laughter that comes from it. Man is made from her, and she was made from him. It is a banner, a million words scrawled upon it. A thousand memories crammed in a jar, stuck in the sand, the ocean washing around it. What God has done is both delicate and intricate. What God has made is smooth and rich, and light and brilliant, its illumination igniting hearts for generations. But as what God has done, as what He intended. As voices of him and her mixed together to form union. A chorus. A chord.
RECOMMENDED READING:
One Thousand Winks by Laura J. Marshall
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When Greg Conrad, a man who reminds her of painful memories, asks Samantha Tanner for a date to the annual Valentine’s charity dance, she is resistant. She’s just started looking for love at an online Christian dating site. But, Greg and her online love interest have something in common. Can mixed-truths, hidden secrets, and goat-stealing accusations end up in true love match for Sam? A heart-warming tale of finding love, healing, and laughter again on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Blog photo (at top) by fascinatedbythesky from Pixabay
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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
www.suzannedwilliams.com
www.feelgoodromance.com
All We Need For Christmas
4 Christmas romances under one cover. Only 99 cents!
From "Welcome To Wonderland":
“You have been chosen,” the old woman said. “Out of all the lasses in the land, you’ve been judged the most suitable.”
“For who?”
Babs made a curtsy then, but did not rise afterward. The maidservants followed suit.
“Stop. I’m just … just Laurie Gray.” No one should bow to her. She drove a four-door compact like half the city. She lived in a townhouse identical to all six of her neighbors’ places. She worked in a cubicle in a sea of other cubicles at Atkin & Sons.
“Oh, no, miss,” the old woman said, her face still toward the floor. “You are the prince’s bride, soon to be the queen.”
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Nothing’s real at Christmas. The trees are fake. Well, mostly. The decorations largely made out of plastic. Our smiles are often fake, too. Forced into situations to “celebrate,” we go along with it and do our best to survive for an hour and find an easy escape. Then there’s Uncle James. Who invited Uncle James? No one’s admitting it, and everyone’s looking down at their plate.
There are difficult people to deal with at this time of year. At home. At the office. Difficult to us. God loves people. God loves celebrating. He loves our songs and pageantry at Christmas. He is the reason we have gold and silver, the reason we make such beautiful designs. Workmanship comes from Him. Yet, in the midst of all these things that aren’t true, while the artificial surrounds us and comes from us, what holds our hearts is the birth of the Savior, Jesus Christ.
I am struck by the strength of His parents, how Mary willingly gave herself to fulfill God’s plan. She must have had a million questions about what would happen after the angel spoke to her. Not simply about pregnancy but about raising God’s Son. About Joseph’s reaction. And Joseph, after the angel told him to flee to Egypt, must have wondered how he would survive in a culture that was distinctly not Jewish. After all, he gave up his entire lifestyle to protect his newborn son.
But God the Father and God the Spirit were with them to supply all their needs, and today, as we mill amongst those long-lost relatives, sampling Aunt Maude’s cheesecake, He has not changed. He sent Jesus to be our complete salvation. There is not one need we have which He will not supply. He loves us so much.
Merry Christmas from my family to yours. Have a blessed holiday season!
“For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son so that anyone who believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16 TLB)
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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
www.suzannedwilliams.com
www.feelgoodromance.com
The Best of Us
 | Includes Book 1 (Rise of the Sun) and Book 2 (Spawn)
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There's a lot of spawn in the frog pond, tadpoles swimming up and down for air. One's as viable as another. No big loss if a few don't make it. With frogs that is.
Children are a precious resource, a bountiful source of joy, an endless blessing, and infants, the newborn, the unborn are priceless. You cannot buy and sell human life. What God values are the lives He bid us fill the earth with in Genesis. What He guards the most is innocence.
Our children are not frogs to be mishandled. Exterminated. But gifts from God to fill our days with beauty. When I wrote this series, I touched the heart of God, although in an unusual way. God's heart is for children to be filled with Him, so that they will have long, happy, successful lives, and it is our responsibility to give this dream to them and to foster in their hearts the truth of who He is and what Jesus did for them. We have fallen short in many ways, and yet there is hope. Because God is more than enough to the heal hearts and minds of the best of us. Our kids.
Read " Jesus Loves The Little Children."
From SPAWN:
Cyborg 852 united with the only female cyborg in existence, 241, without any idea of the consequences of their actions until a human told him. In his machine-like world, she was a curiosity, her structure different from the rest, and his draw to her unexplainable and devoid of emotion.
When his son, the first naturally produced cyborg child, shows up on his doorstep two years later, a series of strange events puts in motion the possible downfall of the Organization that controls all his kind. There will be no more central computer, but instead, the freedom to think, to choose, and decide.
Yet 241s willful self-destruction to bring it to pass is too high a cost. And the possible end to the most valuable part of their existence – the chance to feel love.
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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
www.suzannedwilliams.com
www.feelgoodromance.com
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