Rebekah Lyn

Grace Filled Summer Book Sweeps 2018 | Grace Awards

I am participating in the Grace Filled Summer Book Sweeps and offering my novel, Julianne as one of the free books. Be sure to click below to choose the book you would like a chance to win!

We are entering an exciting and happy time of year. Summer…a time for fun, relaxing, going barefoot, hanging out with family and friends around the grill. It’s the perfect time for the Grace Filled Summer Sweeps 2018. And summer reading has never been this much fun with eight stellar authors and their exciting and insightful books. This is a sweepstakes. So, each author will give away a copy of her book according to the most interesting, clever comment. In your comment, please let us know which book you’re dying to read, and also your second choice. This way we’ll be sure to give everyone a book that’s to their reading taste. Winners will be selected August 31st.

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During the Sweeps, I am offering Julianne at a special discounted price of $1.99

Recently I sent out news of a special price drop for Jessie, my novel of a young boys dreams and heartache, in my newsletter. Now through the end of the month, this award-winning story is available for 50% off the eBook price at Smashwords. Simply use the code SSW50 at checkout.

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I am currently in the process of finalizing the follow-up book, Destiny’s Call. I hope to announce the release date soon!

Gaines Fever Giveaway

I was late to the Chip & Joanna Gaines “Fixer Upper” phenomenon. I happened to turn on HGTV one weekend last fall when I needed some background noise while I cleaned house and a Fixer Upper marathon was on. I ended up spending more time taking breaks to watch the show than I spent on cleaning. I was hooked on the transformations this sweet couple was able to bring about on some of the most hopeless looking homes. I started watching pretty much every time I found several episodes on in a row and soon found myself wanting to visit Waco, TX. Every time I’ve mentioned this desire I’ve had multiple people express the same feeling. I even lived the trip vicariously through one friend’s Facebook posts.

For the July 4th holiday, I flew to North Carolina to see my family and the lady next to me on the plane pulled out the Magnolia Table cookbook.

I didn’t want to seem nosy, but I finally couldn’t resist asking if she’d visited the new restaurant. She hadn’t but purchased the cookbook in hopes her husband, the cook of the family, would make some of the best-sounding recipes from it during the holiday week. As I peeked at the pages during the remainder of the flight, I found the longing to visit growing, but I could probably settle with a copy of the cookbook until the weather in Texas cools off a little bit. 😆

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Finding Spring~Part 2

As I’m sure many of you have experienced. The weather this spring has been wildly unpredictable and such was the case during my entire week in North Carolina. One night we had hail, another day it was overcast, but temperatures were mild, then the next day it was snowing. While it snowed for hours, nothing was sticking on our side of the mountain, so we went over to Cherokee to see what conditions were like there.

I don’t know if I will ever get used to the difference a few feet in elevation can make. As we climbed the mountain, we started to see patches where snow was gathering and at the top there was a good inch or so covering the land. Snowplows were stationed in several strategic locations along the way, but the roads were still warm enough to keep the snow from collecting there.

For me, snow is still a novel thing so I am delighted anytime I see it. I was hoping to see some elk in the snow, but they were all hiding. I had to settle for the sheer beauty of trees covered in the fresh dusting. The ranger station and old farmstead at Oconaluftee is one of my favorite places to visit and just wander around. With the snow still coming down I had it all to myself. (Well, my mom walked out with me to take some pictures.)

I could almost smell the scent of a fire warming the homestead and picture myself curling up with a well-loved quilt to watch the snow outside the window. I have to tell you, I felt like I was in a magical wonderland and couldn’t stop taking pictures. When a cardinal landed on a wood fence rail, right next to a blazing forsythia bush with tiny piles of snow on its yellow leaves, I knew I had to capture that moment.

Amazingly, the cardinal seemed to want his picture taken and he remained still for a couple of minutes as I inched ever closer. When we returned to the car, I remembered it was on this date more than ten years ago that my grandmother passed away. I felt a little closer to her at that moment and wondered if God may have sent that cardinal to bless me.

I’m seeing more blessings in the little things in life. This encounter with the cardinal, the beauty of my fresh cut flowers, a safe journey through the snow, a warm place to relax with my family. Every day I find things to be thankful for. In some ways I feel like my spirit is experiencing its own spring, awakening from a period of dormancy. I look forward to seeing what will blossom in this new season.

Finding Spring

In Florida we tend to take spring for granted. We don’t experience the dull, brown days of winter those further north endure for months on end. Bulb based flowers, such as tulips and daffodils, which are such hallmarks of spring, don’t flourish here. Most years, the only signs of spring are a handful of trees that shed their leaves for a few weeks in late January and start budding out new growth in late February. While we have experienced more winter and spring-like weather this year, I decided I wanted to experience a taste of real spring, so I spent a week in March at my family’s home in North Carolina.

The white blossoms of the Dogwood and Bradford Pear trees drew my attention right away, a blaze of color in a landscape that still had a lot of brown waiting to awaken. I didn’t have many plans for this trip, other than enjoy the scenery and work on some editing. I spent nearly an hour my first full day, just walking around the yard, enjoying the daffodils, hyacinths, mini-grape hyacinths, and sacred heart blooms, and marveling at the various stages of growth the ofnumerous peonies. Did you know that the older the peonies plant is, the faster it grows? Some were already close to a foot tall while others were just inches out of the ground.

I arrived late on Friday, and my mom was excited to tell me about a new place where we could go pick our own tulips. We stopped by on Sunday but couldn’t tell if they were open. On Monday went back and this time saw the sign saying that they are closed on Sunday and Monday. Finally, on Tuesday, after a failed attempt to check out a new restaurant, we made it to the tulip farm.

The land was terraced with rows of tulips as well as beds of hyacinths. Some of the rows were marked off for a local resort, but there were still plenty for me to choose from. There were a couple of variations I’ve never seen before and I probably spent more time taking pictures than actually cutting flowers.

The woman who owns the place was lovely and we had a nice chat while we wrapped up my purchase. Turns out she is from Florida, too. I found myself feeling a bit envious of her second home’s bountiful beauty. With threatening clouds on the horizon, mom and I took my cheerful bouquet home and I set about editing a few chapters in my “work in progress” waiting for the storm to move in.