I often think about my special place in heaven and all the possibilities it can be, I do not think it is a palace but a cabin in the woods not far from the sea. With a little stone pathway leading up to the door, It’ll have a grand fire place and knotty pine floors.… Continue reading “My Castle in the Sky” A Christmas Poem by Alex Apostol
I am so excited for this one. The cover is beautiful (in my totally unbiased opinion, lol) and the story is one that I have been wanting to tell for a very long time. Based on true events from my own life, writing this was like writing in my diary again. It's very personal, ugly, and embarrassing, but it's a story that needs to be told. It's my testimony, and my first dabble into faith-based fiction.
This book was really an eye-opener for me. It's funny because I've seen reviews of this book where the reviewer is offended that Brant says being unoffendable is a choice. It's ironic. It really is a choice, and making the choice is the easy part. It's following through that is hard work, daily, as is breaking any bad habit and building a better new one in its place. I've only been done reading this for a few days and already I'm working my butt off to remember the wisdom in here to put into practice.
For some reason, don't even ask me why, we ended up watching The Secret on Netflix tonight. I guess we've watched everything else. And it amazed me how every single thing they said mirrored The Bible. For real, if you substituted all the times they said "the universe" for "God" it was straight from faith.
A few weeks ago, with Christmas fast approaching, I decided to take on a rereading of "Little Women". Even though the story goes through all the seasons in many years, it has always felt like a Christmas story to me. I haven't read it for almost twenty years, when I was a teenager myself, so it's safe to say I found so much more in the book now than I had then. Life experiences will do that to a girl, eh? My goal was to finish reading the book before going to see the new movie out in theaters this last weekend. I almost made it with only 50 pages to go, so close enough.
Alex Apostol 