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Happy Roctober 2023 – Rejoicing & Celebrating Some Birthday Fun

My birthday is this month, so I’m having same Roctober fun. Enjoy these birthday-themed posts I’m sharing on social media.

A journaler turned journalist turned author was born this month 🎉

I’m about 3 months old in the picture on the left (above).

I’m around 1 years old in the pic on the right where I’m scribbling. My Mom took this shot. It’s the first and one of the only pics of me ✍️✍️✍️

You can read more about my writing and faith journey in God-Given Dreams (NavPress/Tyndale Alliance, March 5, 2024).

If you’re looking for ways to help celebrate my birthday, a great way is to show your support by preordering copies of my upcoming book God-Given Dreams  (NavPress/Tyndale Alliance) for yourself and to give away as gifts to family and friends or nonprofits. God-Given Dreams is available for preorder on a few sites including Amazon (NOTE: Amazon Prime Day is October 10-11.)

Preorders are so important in the publishing world. They show publishers that books like God-Given Dreams matter!

Cue the mariachis 🎉 Welcome to Roctober 🎉 I’m celebrating another year of life by God’s grace this month 🙌 My birth month celebrations start … now👸🏻(LOL only two of these crowns & the cloud were for my birthday. The rest are for a special occasion and just ordinary days 👑😎)

I’m royalty because I’m the Beloved Daughter of the KING of kings 🙌

Three Cheers with Lemonade for this Month’s Birthday Girl 🎉🎉🎉💃💃💃Celebrating My Dear Dad: Roctober Edition: This pic “happened” to come up as a memory recently and it made me smile. We were actually celebrating my bday with mi familia in this pic. My Dad LOVED celebrating our birthdays and in later years got a kick out of saying “Happy Birth Month” to me. LOL We’d celebrate at the beginning and end of the month and sometimes in between😀 My Dad reveled in family, food and fiestas. My birthdays started out with McDonald’s parties and somewhere around my teen years I would be MORTIFIED when mariachis would pop out of nowhere at the restaurants. As an adult, I learned to appreciate the mariachis more. LOL Aww, rejoicing in celebrating the birth of his second daughter… That’s My Dad 💖

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Happy Hispanic Heritage Month & “Dear Younger Me Series”

I recently shared a series of TBT posts on social media that chronicled part of my writing and faith journey. As part of my Hispanic Heritage Month Celebrations (September 15 – October 15) this year, I’d like to share those posts here in case you missed some of them and so they’re all in one place. I hope you enjoy this walk down memory lane through the pics in this short video (click on the pic above or here) and the captions below. It’s been a long journey for this Christian Latina writer to get to this season. Thanks for staying on this journey with me! Stay tuned for info about my upcoming book and other projects I’m working on. Blessings!

April 13, 2023 Post

TBT Dear Younger Me: Keep enjoying the bedtime stories Mom lovingly reads to you over and over again 💕

And keep practicing until you can read for yourself and keep scribbling away until you learn how to write ✍️

One day you’re gonna be writing for renowned newspapers and magazines and even authoring books!

Your bilingual kindergarten is gonna help you in your Spanglish world.

Don’t let anyone set limits on what you can and can’t do.

Relish the great times with Dad 💖

Keep wearing red 😎

Rock the bangs & two ponytails as long as you want 😀

May 4, 2023 Post

TBT Dear Younger Me: There’s a reason you feel drawn to join the school newspaper and to volunteer in the school’s library 📚

✍️ Keep writing

✍️ Keep telling stories

🎙️ Keep speaking up

You’ll grow out of many phases (including that stuffed cow phase, LOL) but you won’t grow out of writing and creating ✍️ 🔥 🙌

Keep shining 👑

Note: This photo ran in my high school’s newspaper when I reluctantly became the Editor-in- Chief my senior year.

May 12, 2023 Post

TBT Dear Younger Me: Writing for your high school and college and weekly papers is gonna lead to writing for a global newspaper, national women’s magazine, your own blog and to authoring books!

Your words are going to touch readers near and far 💕

Don’t get discouraged if you’re the only (or sometimes one of the few) Latinas in the classroom, newsroom or office. Keep writing anyway ✍️✍️✍️

🔥 Your words matter

🔥 Your story matters

🔥 You are making a difference

P.S. Technology is gonna get super advanced so get ready, and I’m glad you at least tried short hair for a bit 😀

Note: Pic taken during my college internship days. It’s the only pic I have of my newsroom days.

May 16, 2023 Post

TBT Dear Younger Me: How did you have the courage and audacity to fly all the way across the country to Seattle alone to attend a large conference for a multicultural group of journalists⁉️

Keep going 🔥

✍️ You are finally gonna work at a magazine

🌎 You’re gonna board planes to Australia, Israel, Brazil, Ethiopia, England and more as you see God’s fingerprints on SIX continents

✍️ You’re gonna write about your travels so take notes

🎙️ One day you’ll be hosting your own women’s conferences and events 😮😮😮

God’s got lots more in store so get ready and keep shining 👑

Note: Just came across this souvenir photo the other day. What a sweet find 💕

June 1, 2023 Post

TBT Dear Younger Me: Welcome to your NYU grad school journalism days and interning at a famous women’s magazine. Keep going 🔥 ✍️✍️✍️

P..S. I’m glad you’re experimenting with hair colors. Change is nice sometimes.

Note: Pic taken by the magazine where I was interning. They asked me a question and quoted me and ran my photo in an issue.

June 8, 2023 Post

TBT Dear Younger Me: Remember the mini-magazines you were creating at home as a little girl? Your childhood dream of working for a magazine finally came true❣️ Enjoy getting all glammed up and going to the fancy events and meeting the celebs and even doing a photo shoot … it’s gonna be a bumpy ride soon so hold on…

God’s got a plot twist for you 🔥 …

Note: Left pic taken before an event. The top right pic was taken at a photo shoot for the magazine I worked for. The bottom right pic was taken after the photo shoot 😎

June 15, 2023 Post

TBT Dear Younger Me: Remember how long you dreamed of going to an Olympics? What a thrill to visit various stadiums including the one in Athens Greece and going to a Summer and Winter Games ❣️❣️❣️

I’m so grateful you had such a wonderful time 💕

I’m also grateful God chased you down in Sydney… life will never be the same and that’s Good News …

God’s got a plot twist for you 🔥

Now that these childhood dreams were fulfilled it’s time for the next adventures … Get Ready 🔥

June 22, 2023 Post

TBT Dear Younger Me: How did you go from being a journalist to an English teacher to a communications specialist⁉️ And how did you have the courage to travel on short-term missions trips to the Amazon Jungle in Brazil, the Andes Mountains in Ecuador and the streets and schools and parks and plazas in Ethiopia, Honduras and Peru 🌎🌍

Only God could do that 🙌

He knows what’s on the other side of our YES ❣️

Enjoy your travels and meeting people along the way and guess what.. your writing won’t be in hiding much longer 😎…

God’s got more in store for you during this plot twist 🔥

June 29, 2023 Post

Dear Younger Me: Rejoice as you dare to live your God-given dreams 🙌

It’s been a long and winding road to get here … 🔥

In this season the little girl who was making mini-magazines at home and the journalist who worked at a women’s magazine is now:

🔥 Writing FIVE Christian living books and devotionals

🔥 Teaching at a Bible school

🔥 Hosting events

🔥 Speaking in church and chapel services, events and gatherings

🔥 Being interviewed on different media outlets

🔥 Hosting a podcast

🔥 Blogging

🔥 Coaching

🔥 Has a YouTube channel

Keep writing ✍️ and speaking 🎙️

Keep encouraging people as they walk by faith, hope and love and dare to live their God-given dreams 🔥

Note: I’m so glad my Dear Dad got to celebrate much of this with us 💕

July 6, 2023 Post

Hope you’ve enjoyed my recent TBT Dear Younger Me posts 💕

It’s been fun going down memory lane and sharing some of the twists and turns and milestones in my writing and faith journey.

It’s been nice to reflect on how God has been working in me and through me.

I’m rejoicing that I’m in the season when I’m

🔥 Writing my first book for the NavPress/Tyndale Alliance

🔥 Writing for Our Daily Bread

🔥 Teaching at a Bible school

I look forward to sharing more highlights and updates with you.  Please stay tuned. Be sure to sign up for my email list.

Want to learn more about my faith and writing journey? Check out By Faith: Adventures and Reflections on Walking With God Here and Abroad on Amazon

And stay tuned for more info about my upcoming Book 6  🎉

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March Travel Memories

I always get a little nostalgic when March rolls around because that’s when I went on my first short-term missions trip to … THE AMAZON JUNGLE IN BRAZIL !!! All five of my missions trips were challenging and amazing in so many ways. Here’s a few pics (above) of some of the ministry outreaches and beauty I’ve seen around the globe including in Brazil, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Honduras and Peru.

I’m also reminded of that AMAZING March I visited the Holy Land 🔥

I NEVER dreamed I’d ever go to Israel 😮

I got the lovely cross (above) made out of olive tree wood in Jerusalem during my precious time in Israel  💕

You can read about how God met me during these trips and about how I’ve seen God’s fingerprints on SIX continents in By Faith: Adventures and Reflections on Walking With God Here and Abroad.

You can read many of the Bible verses that have inspired me during my faith journey in the 365-day devotional, Feisty Faith: Trusting God Day by Day.

God knows what’s on the other side of our YES!

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Happy 10th Blogversary!

How has it been TEN YEARS since I started blogging here at Miraculous Lovely?

I still remember what a struggle it was for nontechie me to design and create this blog.

There was nothing glamourous going on behind the scenes as I fussed and fretted and got frustrated trying to figure out how to create this blog.

It wasn’t a good season in my life, but I had felt the Lord calling me to WRITE.

I wasn’t even sure what private and introverted me would write about?

But I needed a home for some of the devotional pieces I was sharing with trusted friends.

And I knew I didn’t want to rant and rave about life.

I knew was to celebrate God’s Miraculous and Lovely love for us.

And so I launched my blog on Martin Luther King Jr Day, January 20, 2013.

This blog was part of God’s dream for me.

I’ve taken it one blog post at a time, one week (sometimes 2 or 3 bonus blogs) at a time, one month at a time and most importantly one YEAR at a time.

I never set a limit for how long I would blog.

I’ve just kept writing and God has been faithful to give me words to share.

One thing is for sure.

WRITERS WRITE!

It was a little intimidating at first to share my thoughts, musings and reflections with the world but God’s given me His peace over the years.

The little girl in me who used to create mini-magazines out of loose leaf paper and the reporter in me who wrote for a major newspaper and a national women’s magazine has enjoyed the freedom to share my thoughts without an editor and to get to choose the headlines and photos to go with each and every post.

I was sharing my thoughts here even before most others wanted to hear from me.

But God!

God has allowed me to faithfully post weekly, with just a few exceptions along the way to give myself a break and rest, for ten years! Glory!

I felt God leading me to WRITE about Him and faith, hope and love and so much more and I’ve tried to stay true to that mission.

Who knew that during these 10 years I’d:

  1. Go on two more short-term missions trips (out of five)
  2. Launch my AboundingFaith.com website
  3. Write FIVE Christian living books and devotionals (available on Amazon)
  4. Write for Our Daily Bread‘s VOICES Collection and Discovery Series website and for Charisma‘s website
  5. Host 10 events
  6. Speak to countless groups including Christians working at the United Nations and give my brief testimony at Times Square Church
  7. Teach five different online classes based on my books for the New York School of the Bible
  8. Host the Abounding Faith for Today podcast
  9. Shoot more than 155 videos here and abroad for Abounding Faith’s YouTube channel
  10. And that I’d have such exciting news about Book 6!

If you would’ve told me I’d be doing any of this back when I was a graduate student in journalism at NYU or a working journalist, I would’ve laughed at you and run away!

None of this has been my plan or idea.

But God knows what’s on the other side of our Yes!

Once God started to call me to write and speak for His glory, I had inklings that God would be enlarging my territory and increasing my influence and platform.

Those of you who know me and have been helping to pray me through all these YEARS know it hasn’t been easy.

Nothing has been handed to me.

There hasn’t been a large entourage cheering me on or helping to open doors for me.

I’ve had God and a handful of family and friends praying for me and helping me in different ways.

I’m grateful to get to celebrate this milestone with you.

And I’m grateful to those that have joined this online community throughout the years.

This blog has definitely been a refuge and safe place for me to share thoughts, especially about my Dear Dad’s promotion to heaven almost two years ago.

It’s also been a lovely place to share updates on different projects I’m working on or thoughts I’ve been pondering.

I hope my posts have encouraged, inspired, empowered or uplifted you. (If so, I’d love to know!)

If you know me, you’ve probably heard me say that I want to walk through the doors God opens for me.

God has given me many Kingdom assignments in this season.

I’m a Christian Latina Author, Speaker, Podcaster, Blogger, Bible School Instructor, Communicator, Coach/Consultant, Creative and Entrepreneur.

Christian Latina Authors & Speakers are still rather rare when it comes to Christian spaces in English.

God isn’t fazed by my background.

He knows exactly what He wants to do in me and through me.

I may not know what’s next, but God does!

I appreciate your prayers and support and encouragement!

I know blogging may not be popular anymore, but I plan to continue blogging and updating you as the Lord leads.

I plan to continue encouraging and inspiring you as you walk by faith, hope and love and dare to live your God-given dreams.

If you don’t want to miss my updates and posts, please stay tuned and be sure you’re part of my email community right here.

Thanks for staying on this faith journey with me! To God be the Glory!

Here are four Bible verses that come to mind when I think of these last 10 years:

  • “Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.” (Psalm 34:8 NIV)
  • “’Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the LORD Almighty. “(Zechariah 4:6b NIV)
  • “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. (Luke 16:10 NIV)
  • “Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, ‘Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.’ And God granted his request.” (1 Chronicles 4:10 NIV)

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Happy and Blessed New Year & My “One Word” for 2023!

Welcome to 2023! May this be a year filled with abounding love, joy, peace, hope and FAITH!

As we abide in Christ this year, may we remember that God’s mercies are new every morning.

I’ve got a few words for this year, but the “One Word” I’ll share is REJOICE.

After some very trying years, the enemy would like nothing more than for us to be bogged down by gloom and doom and stress and worry.

But he is a liar and defeated.

Joy is one of the fruit of the Spirit so we can have joy in all seasons.

Two Bible verses that come to mind are:

  • “The joy of the LORD is your strength.” (Nehemiah 8:10b NIV)
  • “Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!” (Philippians 4:4 NIV)

I hope our year will be filled with many reasons to rejoice!

As I look ahead to what’s in store this year, by God’s grace I see more writing, speaking, teaching and ministering.

I’ve got a big writing project I’m working on. I’m looking forward to sharing about my journey along the way. I so appreciate your prayers!

I’ll be sharing updates mainly with my email community.

Are you part of my email community? If not, sign up here and get access to the FREE Feisty Faith: Trusting God Day by Day 5-Day Sampler PDF.

If you’re looking for resources to grow in your faith this year, check out Abounding Faith’s written, video and audio content that includes:

  • Abounding Faith’s FIVE inspiring Christian living books and devotionals on Amazon.
  • The uplifting Abounding Faith for Today podcast available wherever you listen to podcasts.
  • Abounding Faith’s YouTube channel that has more than 155 encouraging videos shot here and abroad.
  • Abounding Faith’s uplifting online community via Instagram or other social media.
  • Abounding Faith Coaching & Consulting for those who are looking to SOAR this year.

I’m looking forward to helping to encourage and empower you as you walk by faith, hope and love and dare to live your God-given dreams.

Let’s SOAR together this year.

Be fierce. Be faithful. Be fruitful. Be who God is calling you to be!

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Reflecting on Abounding Faith’s Highlights from 2022

It’s been quite a year.

My One Word for this year was ABIDE.

I think that can be an ongoing word as we always need to abide in Christ.

As I look back on this year, everything hasn’t been perfect (no surprise) but there have been some milestone moments. I’d like to share some highlights and moments that have stuck out to me. You can check out a snapshot in this super short video (or see above) and keep reading for a few thoughts:

Book 6 Update I’ve got great news to share about the plot twist that God has orchestrated for Book 6. I’ll be sharing about this writing breakthrough with my email community first, so please join the list by using this link. You’re not gonna wanna miss this update.

Breakthroughs with Our Daily Bread I’m thrilled that there’s been more writing breakthroughs with my friends at Our Daily Bread. I’m delighted to be a contributing writer for Our Daily Bread‘s VOICES Collection. I wrote devotional entries for their On the Shoulders of Giants devotional for Black History Month and for their Serving Together online devotional for Hispanic Heritage Month. I also wrote two articles for Our Daily Bread‘s Discovery Series website. You can read more about my connection to Our Daily Bread in this blog post.

New York School of the Bible Instructor What a privilege and honor to wrap up my first year of teaching an online class for all FIVE semesters this year through the NYSB!

What a blessing to get to teach classes based on my books and future books 🙌 Only God could do that!

I’ve felt God’s grace on me and my students all throughout the year. Thank You to those helping to pray me through!

As I reflect on this year of teaching, I also look ahead to God willing doing it all over again with the students God provides next year 🙏

Please pray for my upcoming classes and students.

And Ladies, pray about possibly joining us for class in 2023 🔥

Registration is open now for my Feisty Faith: Trusting God Day by Day online class that starts on the evening of Tuesday, January 24. Learn more here.

CWEN Sisters What a joy it’s been to be part of CWEN’S Prayer and Devotional Team for a year! It’s wonderful to get to encourage, inspire and pray for fellow Christian women entrepreneurs across the country and the globe with entries from my 365-day devotional Feisty Faith: Trusting God Day by Day.

Speaking and Podcasting How lovely it was to get to teach another Life Skills for my friends at The Bowery Mission’s Women’s Center.

I also had a wonderful time being interviewed for another podcast. Will share more details when the episode is released in early 2023.

I’m also celebrating the 40 episodes of the Abounding Faith for Today Podcast, which is now also available on Amazon Music and Audible 🎉

Check out the inspiring and encouraging Abounding Faith for Today podcast wherever you listen to podcasts.

Please leave a kind rating and review and tell others about this edifying podcast 🔥

Apple Podcasts: apple.co/2FoPkZM
Google Podcasts: bit.ly/2A5g2AL
Spotify: spoti.fi/2Kmpjt7
iHeart: https://lnkd.in/drNF-PPS
TuneIn: https://tunein.com/ or the app
Stitcher: bit.ly/2Tqz6lN
PodBean: https://bit.ly/2BQXNAI

YouTube Channel There’s now more than 155 encouraging and inspiring videos on Abounding Faith’s YouTube channel 🔥

The short videos are shot near and far (including during past short-term missions trips, vacations, around NYC and trips to my bday castle…).

Check them out and be sure to subscribe, like, comment and share the site with others: youtube.com/@aboundingfaith1

I so appreciate your continued prayers and support for my writing, speaking, podcasting, blogging, videos, social media posts, etc  💕

If my work has inspired and encouraged you and you’re looking for ways to show your support and appreciation for this Christian Latina Author & Creative, a virtual cup of coffee (or two or more) is always appreciated.

Your generosity is much appreciated and helps me continue to encourage women and men as they walk by faith, hope and love and dare to live their God-given dreams 🔥

Thanks for staying on this faith journey with me as I live out the call of God on my life in this season.

Additional great ways to show your support are:

✨ Connecting with Abounding Faith on social media, including Instagram

✨ Helping to spread the word about my FIVE Christian living books and devotionals available on Amazon, including gifting them to friends and family and your church or community library or nonprofit, etc …

Every purchase, kind Amazon review, Instagram interaction, etc makes a difference 🔥

Gracias for your support  💕 

Let’s see what the Lord does in 2023 and beyond.

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Merry Christmas / Feliz Navidad

Whether you have big and elaborate Christmas plans or you’re keeping it simple this year, and whether you’re hitting the road or staying local, I pray you’ll have a very Merry and Blessed Christmas!

May your Christmas be merry and bright because we’re celebrating that God kept His promise and sent His Son Jesus as our Ultimate and Unspeakable Gift!

Here are two of my favorite Bible verses that remind me that Jesus is the Reason for the Season. May they bless you as well:

  • “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” (Isaiah 9:6 NIV)
  • “All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: ‘The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel‘ which means ‘God with us’).” (Matthew 1:22-23 NIV)

I’ve also got a gift for you. I’ve created a 5-day sampler of the encouraging and empowering Feisty Faith: Trusting God Day by Day 365-day devotional to help bolster your faith 🔥

The Bible verses and inspiring messages will help spur you on as you walk by abounding faith, hope and love and dare to live your God-given dreams. If you’d like a FREE copy of this uplifting devotional sampler PDF, just use this link.

Feliz Navidad!

P.S.. Abounding Faith’s FIVE Christian living books and devotionals make great gifts for you and yours! Feisty Faith, By Faith., Crossing Your Jordan River, Abounding Faith and Waiting on God Well are available on Amazon.

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Inside the Writer’s Notebook: Why I Write (Part 1) – National Day on Writing

October 20 is the National Day on Writing. What a great time to share this post.

Why I Write (Part 1) ✍️: Because God made me a writer. It’s as natural (and essential) for me as breathing and smiling…

As a child, I kept diaries and made mini-magazines at home. I later got my master’s degree in journalism from NYU and worked as a journalist. When I felt God calling me out of journalism, my writing went into hiding for YEARS.

God then called me to write about Him. Now I write Christian living books and devotionals ….

It’s been quite a long journey. So glad you’re on this faith journey with me!

If any of my books, blog posts, social media captions or podcast episodes inspire or encourage you, Glory! Please feel free to show luv on Abounding Faith’s Instagram.

Want to see more Latina/o authors, writers, speakers, etc? Wonderful!

Be sure to show your luv and support for those already doing the work …

Your likes, comments, shares, kind Amazon reviews and your purchases (for you and your loved ones) count more than you know, even in the Christian publishing world.

Gracias for staying on this faith journey with me!

You can find Abounding Faith’s FIVE inspirational, encouraging and empowering Christian living books and devotionals in print and on Kindle on Amazon.

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Spanning the Globe – Roctober Edition

I’ve been blessed to travel the WORLD over the years for work, vacation and short-term missions trips.

Oh, what a big and beautiful world it is …

I never wanted to keep a tally of my travels because I wasn’t trying to reach a certain number by a certain timeframe.

But I thought I’d finally do a count to see where things stand so far.

I’m sharing my current total for the first time … these numbers don’t include any layovers in different countries/states and the total doesn’t include that I’ve traveled to five of these countries and a few of these states several times. Each country and state are included only once …

Drumroll please …

God has allowed me to (so far) travel to:

  • 6 Continents
  • 22 Countries
  • 17 States + Washington, D.C.

What an honor and blessing it’s been to see God’s fingerprints all throughout the globe!

Only God knows when and where I’ll go next.

I appreciate your prayers!

The short video above is just a glimpse of some of the beauty I’ve seen on SIX continents and out west … this doesn’t include all the states or countries I’ve been to… just some of the highlights …

God has spoken to me in such special ways during most of these trips ….

If’ you’d like to read about how I’ve seen God’s fingerprints across the globe, check out By Faith: Adventures and Reflections on Walking With God Here and Abroad.

There’s also a chapter on living your God-given dreams and discussion questions you can use with your connect group or book club.

By Faith is available on Amazon. If you’ve been blessed by By Faith, please take a moment to leave a kind Amazon review and rating.

You can watch videos of some of my travels on Abounding Faith’s YouTube channel.

I may not be traveling as much these days, but I’m so grateful that through Abounding Faith’s FIVE Christian living books and devotionals and by speaking online etc… I can continue to reach more and more Readers and nations.

Abounding Faith’s Readers are located (so far) on/in:

  • 5 Continents
  • 10 Countries (outside of the U.S.)
  • 16 States

Gracias for staying on this faith journey with me!

I hope Abounding Faith’s books, this blog, the Abounding Faith for Today podcast, and Abounding Faith’s YouTube channel and social media posts, etc… have been a blessing to you and yours, wherever you’re located in the world!

“Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.” (Psalm 34:8 NIV)

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Happy Roctober!

Happy Roctober! Let the birthday celebrations begin.

Guess I’ve always been fascinated with crowns lol … 

I’m loving this verse:

“You will be a crown of splendor in the LORD’s hand, a royal diadem in the hand of your God.” (Isaiah 62:3 NIV)

A future author was born this month … yup, here’s yours truly already hard at work.

Actually, I didn’t grow up dreaming about writing books. That seemed so far out of reach and wasn’t even on my radar during my journalism days.

But God!

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” (Jeremiah 1:5 NIV)

If you’d like to read more of my story and how I’ve seen God’s fingerprints on 6 continents, check out By Faith: Adventures and Reflections on Walking With God Here and Abroad.

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All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.comThe “NIV” and “New International Version” are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.™

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