Living Each Moment In His Grace

2007 arrived whether we wanted it to do so or not.

For millions around the world, they ushered in the new year with friends and loved ones with fireworks or with champagne. Then there are those who went to church to contemplate or renew their faith and start afresh on the first day of the new year.

In this month, we are encouraged to make resolutions. We are bombarded with advertisements about diets in anticipation of the summer months. We are constantly charged to think ahead. And there's a time and place for all of this.

But there is also a need to live in the moment. We've heard that tomorrow isn't promised. Yet we wish our days away when Monday arrives and we can't wait for the weekend to get here. Or it's 8 a.m. and we wish for 5 p.m. to get beyond our jobs. I've been there with that mindset.

As the new year begins, inevitably it also means that I'm one year older. I realize that time is zooming. I have to enjoy the small, as well as the big things that occur in my life on a daily basis, even hourly. How many times do we pray to give our appreciation and gratitude for the many blessings. As an example, Muslims pray five times a day to remember God, ask for His guidance, and ask for his forgiveness.

My only wish for everyone is that through their own faith, he/she can live life with a little more deliberation under His guidance, compassion, and love.

Michelle Monkou


Sweet Surrender:

Title: Sweet Surrender
Author: Michelle Monkou
Publisher: Harlequin Kimani Press - Romance
Release Date: September 2006
ISBN-10: 1583147802
ISBN-13: 978-1583147801
Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
List Price: $5.99


Author Photo Credit:
(c) Tisara Photography
1607 King Street, Alexandria, VA 22314
(703) 838-8098
www.tisaraphoto.com

A Blessed New Year to Come for All!

As the New Year has come in and we are still here first we should give thanks for yet another year we were allowed to be here and that the fact that we are here means we have some purpose in this wonderful world.


If you don't know your purpose, then I suggest using these few minutes in the New Year to find that out and if you do know your reason for living then I pray and hope you succeed in all you do.


Say I love you to people you care about as much as possible, give flowers while they live, touch, laugh and kiss all you can.

Remember, don't live for the days or the weeks, live for the moments and make them count. Make them matter.

Love always,

Your Author
Sylvia Hubbard

Teach Me To Love:

Title: Teach Me To Love
Author: Sylvia Hubbard
Publisher: Hub Books Publishing
Release Date: 2006
ISBN: N/A
E-Book
List Price: $2.50

New Year

The New Year is an opportunity for a fresh start, to learn from last year's attempts and better them. I hope that you enjoy a blessed and cherished New Year and that this year will mark the beginning of great things.

Since it is 2:30 am, this is the afterparty post, sending blessings to the West Coast family and others who are just crossing into 2007.

Intimate Musings:

Title: INTIMATE MUSINGS (Discover Kai Poetry, Volume 2)
Author: a.Kai
Publisher: OPHELIA PUBLISHING LLC
Release Date: NOVEMBER, 2006
ISBN: N/A
Paperback: 84 pages
List Price: $7.50

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Whatsoever is good, whatsoever is lovely ... think on these things. I hope and pray that your thoughts for 2007 will be positive and empowered, for as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.

I was so busy hostessing, I didn't have a chance to write a fresh thought for 2007, but last year's offering: Endings and New Beginnings is still quite apropos.

Thanks so much for joining us, you were great!

Love,
Dee and Divine


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The Countdown Begins...

Buried at PhotoCasket.com

And the party is about to wind down...

Winners so far:

Game 1 - Name that Author No 1
Phenomenal - The Love We Had by Dedan Tolbert


Game No. 2
Sylvia Hubbard - And Even If I Did by Kisha Green


Door Prize Winner
Mr. New - THE TRAIN-OF-THOUGHT WRITING METHOD:
Practical, User-Friendly Help for Beginning Writers by Kathi Macias

Game No. 3
Lilchoc - From a Caterpillar to a Butterfly by Renetta Randle

Please email your address to dee@deeswhite.com to receive your prize.

Will you be next?

We've also had New Year Greetings from authors Kisha Green and Kathi Macias and also from the Read Zone Book Review Team.

There's more to come. In the meantime, interact with the other guests, tell us about your New Year's resolutions, or tell us about your favorite Accomplishment of 2006.

Play some GAMES and win a prize. Stop by our Book Introduction Page, where we introduce to to new authors or new works from familiar authors. Mayhap something will be perfect for you or a friend.

NOTE: Authors if your book isn’t listed, tell us about it in the comments section.Again thanks for stopping by and enjoy yourself.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

WISHING YOU

AND YOURS

A

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

From a Caterpillar to a Butterfly:

Title: From a Caterpillar to a Butterfly

Author: Renetta J. Randle

Publisher: Shortcakes Productions

Release Date: September 2006

ISBN: 0978970004

Paperback: 116 pages

List Price: $16.00

Sale Price: $10.00 (at Shortcakes Productions)

New Year's Greetings from Shoi

Wishing all the readers and friends of Divine's Diary a Happy and Healthy New Year.

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Game No 5 - One of These Things

One of these titles just doesn't belong here!

Which one is different do you know?

Can you tell me which title doesn't belong here,

and I'll tell you if it is so!



Which of the following isn't a title?

• Alex's Dreams


• Saving Grace


• The Lady and The Thug


• Intimate Musings

Which title doesn't fit?

• Emma Jean Reborn


• From a Caterpillar to a Butterfly


• The Life of Teenagers Aint No Joke


• Daddy's Girl

BONUS: What children's show is the song from?

Game No 4 - Write Your Own Story

Hi Folks,

It's now your turn to write!

Write a paragraph (that makes sense) using the following book titles. They don’t have to be used in the order listed, just use them all. The best story wins!

• And Even If I Did


• Age is Just a Number


• From a Caterpillar to a Butterfly


• Intimate Musings


• Love is the Beautiful Black Woman


• Please Come Home for Christmas


• The Love We Had


• Until Next Time


• Just a Picture in a Frame


• Saving Grace: When Fate Steps In

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

On behalf of Read Zone Book Reviews and our Review Team, I want to wish you a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year, so here goes:

Happy New Year Lovers of Literature! It's always the the perfect time for adding more choices to your "to be read" list. That being said, take a detour by the punch bowl, get yourself some punch and settle down to take a peek at our reviews completed in 2006.

In addition, don't miss our book introductions page and our excerpts page for a peek at up and coming authors and their latest selections.

Also, feel free to post your book recommendations in the comments section. Don’t forget to include the author’s name and genre of the book.

A Year in Review:

Active Christian Media:

• He Talk Like a White Boy by Joseph C. Phillips (Non-Fiction)


• Help! Mom! There are Liberals Under My Bed by Katharine DeBrecht (Children's Fiction)


• The Life of Teenagers Aint No Joke by Keith G. Wright (Non-Fiction)

FSB Associates:

• Why You're Still Single by Evan Marc Katz (Self-Help)

Read Zone Book Reviews:

• Emma Jean Reborn by Dr. Cupid Poe and Kathi Macias (Fiction)


• Played by Dana Davidson (Young Adult Fiction)