Before it Melts by Ada Nicholson Brownell

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Treasured Moment

We came home from a Sunday evening service after a snowstorm sprayed our hill with glimmering icy beauty. The air was fresh and invigorating.

               “Let’s go sledding!” I said as everyone got out of the car.  It was a ridiculous suggestion for a mother with five children who should be getting ready for bed.

               Yet, we grabbed warm clothes, sleds and hit the hill.  Flakes were still descending, but darkness wasn’t a problem.  Streetlights shone from above and the white earth glowed in response.

               Since I was supposed to be the grown up, I tugged sleds to the top for the smaller ones, while the children flew down the slick slope, frigid air kissing their pink cheeks while squeals of joy trailed each descent.

               Even when the sleds returned to the garage and the children crawled into their toasty beds, the aroma of joy lingered about our house.

               The next morning, the sun ruined the slope before we had breakfast.

               I’ve learned life sometimes is like snow.  Opportunities to share my love, joy, faith and abundance won’t always be there. I have to prod myself to seize the moment. Often I’ve failed, but I’ve enjoyed the wonder of grasping a tiny block of time and making good things happen I had no idea would result.

               Sometimes I don’t know if anything good happened from what I did—but I always know opportunities are like the snow.  We have to get to them before they melt.

Ada's newest book is being released January 15th.

Joe the Dreamer: The Castle and the Catapult

By A.B. Brownell

Enter an area where people are missing and radicals want to obliterate Christianity from the earth. After Joe Baker’s parents mysteriously disappear, he finds himself with a vicious man after him. Joe and an unusual gang team up to find his mom and dad. The gang is dedicated to preventing and solving crimes with ordinary harmless things such as noise, water, and a pet skunk instead of blades and bullets. Joe reads the Bible hoping to discover whether God will answer prayer and bring his parents home. In his dreams, Joe slips into the skin of Bible characters and what happened to them, happens to him—the peril and the victories. Yet, crying out in his sleep causes him to end up in a mental hospital’s juvenile unit. Will he escape or will he be harmed? Will he find his parents? Does God answer prayer?

Where can you find this suspenseful and spiritually profitable book for teens? Joe the Dreamer will be released on Amazon, Barnesandnoble.com and other outlets in paperback and as an e-book on Jan. 15. Look for it under the author’s name.

To learn more about this author’s books: http://www.inkfromanearthenvessel.blogspot.com