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Looking Out the Window: Carole Brown Talks about Her World War II Spy Novel, With Music in Their Hearts and Writes a Devotional about Contentment. She'll Give Away an E-book.

A Warm Welcome to Carole Brown   Carole will give away an e-book of With Music in Their Hearts. To enter to win leave a comment and an e-mail address below. Sometimes It’s Hard to be Content I Timothy 6:8 says, “Having food and raiment (clothes) let us be content. In my novel, With Music in Their Hearts , Emma Jaine Rayner, really wanted to be content and in many ways, was. She had a business she loved. She enjoyed the company of her tenants and their varied personalities. She adored her family, and she lived a comfortable life. But . . . She grew tired (although she wouldn’t admit it!) of the constant responsibility of caring for her family, and her inability in “making” them do as she thought they should. She worried about the more problematic residents. And she yearned for a man of her own. What’s a woman to do? I love the thought of being content. That place where you feel satisfied and pleasant and have ease of mind. Euphoric experience, right? Th...

Looking Out the Window: Carole Brown Talks about Her New Book, With Music in Their Hearts. She'll Give Away an E-book.

A Warm Welcome to Carole Brown Carole shares a devotional based on her new book, With Music in Their Hearts . She'll give away an e-book. To enter to win leave a comment and an e-mail address below.   Why Does God Ask Hard Things From Us?   For the life of him, he had no idea what he’d done to deserve two slaps in the face in one day. Tyrell stepped out of the booth and glanced at the cloudy sky. No sign of the sun, and no sign of God’s face smiling down ready to do battle for him. -- From With Music in Their Hearts. Have you ever wondered why God allowed you to go through that hard/dark/difficult period in your life? Has life always been the proverbial bowl of cherries? Of course not! It just seems worse for those of us who serve a God in heaven because we falsely assume life will always be full of sunshine.  Tyrell Walker, the protagonist in my WWII novel, lost his parents as a child. That’s a terrible blow to any child, but God had plans for...