A Warm Welcome to Karen Cogan See below to snag your free copy of Forget Me Not . Devotional Lesson From a Christmas Tree After discussions about the pros and cons, we finally bought an artificial Christmas tree. In the long run, it is not as expensive as buying a fresh tree each year, nor is it as messy. I can put up the synthetic tree and take it down without thousands of needles covering the floor. It does not prick me, and it never dries out from lack of water because it was never alive. It is simple and convenient. However, I miss the fragrance of a live tree and the spicy aroma of pine that filled the house. One year, I bought a can of spray, thinking to duplicate the scent. Yet, it was not the same. I still prefer the real tree, even though it comes with a price. I began to compare it to an authentic Christian life. In order not to dry out, believers must refresh themselves by communion with Christ, the Living Water. We are called to carry the fragrance of...
More in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on the ACFW Fiction Finder website Children’s/Middle-Grade Chapter Books: Charly’s Volcano by Lorisa D. Wiedenheft -- It’s the fall of 1993 in small-town North Carolina. Twelve-year-old Charly is in seventh grade and excited to be in junior high. But then her best friends start trying new things. Wya joins the basketball team, and June decides to be a cheerleader. Charly feels left out and can’t shake the anger simmering inside her. One minute she’s fine, and the next she’s blowing up at the people she cares about most.. (Children’s/Middle Grade, Independently Published) Contemporary Romance: Falling into Us by Denise Hunter -- When a reluctant woman travels to Gibson, NC to deliver her late mother’s final letter to the grandmother she’s never known, she strikes a deal with a widowed journalist seeking a career-making story—only to discover that healing old wounds might require risking their hearts. (Contemporary R...