Trying is Better Than Not Trying

Well here I am and I still don't have a devotion. Seems this business of prepping the novel for the first phase of production and trying to get my e-mails done and trying to pet/sit is quite time consuming. Excuses, excuses!
 Please forgive me and hang in there. I hope tomorrow I'll have something for you. I have to re-acquaint myself with my book and figure out how to draw a devotional from it. Otherwise I may start on one I did as a sample for my pastors who are training me to facilitate a house church in Hollywood. That sounds like the best option.

In the mean time ya gotta give me credit for showing up!
Please also remember that I would love to get some pre-orders on my book. It would be quite helpful!
www.hiskingdomassociates.com and click on the "Buy Now!" button above the book trailer.
 Thank you!!!

Daily????

Hello! Well so much for daily. I pet and house sit and I failed to remember that this current gig which I started yesterday has no inet access. Thus no blog post. But I went to a friend's today so I can blog. I won't really get under way until I'm back at my other gig where inet really is. So I take Sats and Suns off anyway. I'll be back to it on Monday.
Perhaps by then I'll have a good devotional arranged.
Thanks for reading my blog and buying my book at www.hiskingdomassociates.com

The Resolution of Red Tears

Here is an intro to my book if the video left you wanting more.

First it all started with me as a teenager watching "How the West Was Lost" on TV. I was saddened by what was done to the Navajo children. Boarding schools removed children from their families without consent and took them away and tried to make them white. Walking out the philosophy of General Pratt who founded Carlisle Indian school in Pennsylvania; "Kill the savage, save the man." As I grew I never forgot it but even as a child I remember loving Native Americans and in role-playing always chose the Indian. I didn't find out until 1999 that my mom had been part Cherokee.

Move ahead to 2008 when PBS aired "We Shall remain". I cried as I listened to the broken hearts of our First Nation People. The Lord spoke a word to me during that documentary which I thought was to the Governor of California and President. I held onto it and the The Resolution of Red Tears began to take shape in my heart. As I wrote, I was astonished at what God was saying in the story. Have you ever written a story God put on your heart and just type in autopilot because what you see coming forth can't be from you? That's how this book was for me.

When I asked Him for a vision for my character, He gave me one. Then he had two of my friends tell me they had a dream that was exactly or very close to that vision I'd just written. He also made me go back and read a devotion from that morning and it too confirmed the vision I'd just received. he is amazing and this story is His Story.

Here's the synopsis:

Daniel, Red Tears, Patterson is half Navajo and works as a modern day under- sheriff in Stake Town, Arizona. He was given the name Red Tears by his grandfather as a prophetic name meaning, “the tears of our people cry through him”.  A widower; he and his daughter, Jessica have a close relationship and are well liked in their town by all except by Daniel’s colleagues, Tom and Bill McKinley who are White Supremacists. The situation is not helped by the fact that Tommy Jr. is in love with Daniel’s daughter.

Daniel uncovers the McKinley’s plans to form an Aryan army and believes the McKinley’s killed his wife, a full Navajo, as a warning to keep him quiet. Daniel takes his daughter back to the reservation to help an old friend, Ben, investigate a missing clansman and discovers the McKinley’s are involved. While there, Daniel also faces his brother-in-law who holds a long grudge against him.

Through all of this Daniel carries a heart-cry for reconciliation in his family and between the first Nation People and White America. This cry will drive him to the United States Senate with a word about the Resolution of Apology to The Native Americans.

Until Tomorrow. Be blessed with Shalom.

Now I'm Really Back

I am back again and hopefully here to stay. I now have something to write about for this blog and I hope you stay with me. First, some great news! I was picked up by Tate Publishing and my book starts production soon. The resolution of Red tears should be out mid to late 2012. It was all God!

I asked a friend who knows how to market and she told me to blog daily. from my previous posts you can bet I gave her a concerned look. She suggested doing a short daily devotion. A spark! Yes of course. It will be excellent practice for the house church the Lord is starting with me in Hollywood, soon and not yet. LOL!

So I will try to use snippets from The Resolution of Red Tears and ask some searching questions when inspired and I will use an awesome writer team John and Staci Eldridge. Their daily devotions are incredible and I want to share them.

So today I am saying Hello again and tomorrow I will post the first devotion or perhaps I'll just tell you what The resolution of Red tears is about and why I wrote it.