Prayer for Release from Anxiety - A Post-to-Phone Messages

I just uploaded to Amazon my first Post-to-Phone Message book, Prayer for Release from Anxiety. This small book is a slimmer, trimmer adaptation of  Prayer Therapy of Jesus focusing only on Anxiety.

Purchase Prayer for Release from Anxiety for $0.99 and open it on your smart phone. Bookmark the specific prayer for release from anxiety. You will have it as close as your phone, so you can open and read the prayer each day, and specifically when you are feeling anxious.

I have included pages on prayer therapy development and a devotional using the topic of Anxiety. In Prayer Therapy, you pray the specific prayer for release from anxiety three times a day, then live the remainder of the day, knowing God has heard your prayer and give him thanks.

To Sign Books or Not to Sign Books, That is the Question

There seems to be a debate among writers if they should or shouldn’t have book signings. One writer said, “I would just die if no one spoke to me.” Here is the secret to a successful book signing: Talk to them first!

Engage them in conversation about whatever is in their immediate surroundings, like — the weather, something they are wearing, or a book they’re holding. Then ask them something like, “May I tell you about the books I’ve written?” Does everyone buy a book? — Of course not. Do most of the people want to hear about your books? — Of course they do.

A book signing isn’t about how many books you sell. It’s about how many readers you meet. The young woman who captured my heart at a signing event yesterday, said, “I graduated from high school and I’m in college now. But, I have never read a book.” She picked up, Length of Days – The Age of Silence, and said, “I’m going to read this one.” That young woman is why I do book signings. Awaken a love of reading in someone, and lead them on an adventure into places and people they have never known, and you will expand their world and bless the lives.

Doris

"God gives us stories that testify to His love. Let me tell you mine.”

Copyright 2015 Doris Gaines Rapp

Books by Doris Gaines Rapp

Novelette:

News at Eleven (Glo Magazine Jan, Feb, March, and April 2015 – now on newsstands and online at  http://www.glo-mag.com/view-our-issues/ - page 50-51

Just a few of my Novels:

Length of Days – The Age of Silence

Length of Days – Beyond the Valley of the Keepers (End of February)

News at Eleven – A Novel (April 2015)

Through A Ca-Person’s Ears

Our Silky dog is not a canine. She’s a ca-person, I’m sure. She takes the blame when the computer acts up – “It’s Baby Dog’s fault,” is my favorite assignment of cause. She takes it in her stride, which is, by the way, right behind me when I walk about the house. She also takes credit when something, which has been lost, suddenly turns up. “Look, Baby-Dog found it.” So, it’s fun at times to see my writing through Baby Dog’s ears.

Since she is a well educated ca-person, having graduated from Dog Training classes, I try to make sure I use the correct tense and that spell-check in operating correctly. But, her greatest asset to me is her willingness to listen to my stories as I read them to her.

The elementary school in Berne, Indiana had a resident dog that slept on a pillow outside the nurse’s office. Children penciled in an appointment to sit on the floor beside the Book-dog and read their favorite tales to them. Reading aloud has almost become a thing of the past, with audio books being very expensive and parents working long hours.

If your writing is suitable for children, invite them to a reading in your living room or the public library, with cookie served of course. If you have a polite ca-person who will sit on your lap during the reading, you will gain extra praise from your listeners.

However, you don’t need an audience of willing listeners to critique the words you’re writing. Your own ears are important. You just need to read everything aloud. Your words will either ring true to you, or they’ll fumble in your mouth and demand correction. If you are lucky enough to have a ca-person in your home, they make excellent listeners too. You could borrow Baby-Dog, but she sleeps a lot and is seldom available for outside bookings. Happy writing, happier reading in 2015.

Doris

Doris Gaines Rapp

Copyright 2015 Doris Gaines Rapp

A Writer's Resolution

I don’t like New Year’s Resolutions. All they turn out to be are sad, worn out, nearly forgotten, unfulfilled promises by the time the snows of January lay deep on the ground. But, my writer’s heart and creative mind tell me that I will continue to write in 2015 and beyond, so I choose a purpose.

I resolve to write that which is acceptable unto God, each story lifting up a piece of Him: love, forgiveness, hope, joy, peace, acceptance, compassion, anticipation, inspiration, all that which will bring the reader closer to Him.

Doris

Copyright 2015 Doris Gaines Rapp

Books by Doris Gaines Rapp

Novelette:

News at Eleven (Glo Magazine Jan, Feb, March, and April 2015)

Novels:

Length of Days – The Age of Silence

Escape from the Belfry

Smoke from Distant Fires

Hiawassee – Child of the Meadow

Length of Days – Beyond the Valley of the Keepers (January 2015)

News at Eleven – A Novel (April 2015)

Collection: Christmas Feather, one of eight short stories in a wonderful collection titled, Christmases Past

Children’s:

Lincoln’s Christmas Mouse

Non-Fiction:

Waiting for Jesus in a Can’t Wait World – Advent 2014

Prayer Therapy of Jesus

Promote Yourself

Is the Christ Child Relevant at Christmas?

It’s Christmas afternoon again. The presents have been unwrapped and the paper stuffed in bags. The scent of pine cones dances in the air and the fragrance of ginger still linger in the kitchen. I heard the jingle of bells at the Salvations Army bucket as a volunteer shook the clapper in rhythm to the carols he sang. But, this year I heard, “Merry Christmas” fewer times than in the past.

Is Christmas even relevant in our sophisticated, intellectual approach to the holidays? Some will debate if Jesus was actually born in December, or whether shepherds were in the fields during that month and, there are those who say there could not have been a star so bright that wise men from the East would have followed it. I’ve heard all the arguments and probably, you have too. The real issue is, “Was the Son of God born and did his presence change the world?” Is Jesus relevant or should we grow up and stop believing in manger beds and singing angels?

If you need proof that “Jesus matters,” look around the world at countries that did not receive him. Does Love rule their day? I think not. Women are killed for wanting an education. Those with opposing opinions are beheaded. Political opponents are jailed. Crops, like cocoa and coffee, are harvested by slave labor, many of them very young. Children are slaughtered for not denouncing Christ, while we here in our “free country” are intimidated into not saying “Merry Christmas.” Pay attention to societies where Jesus is not welcome, where he never had the chance to usher in a life of love, justice, peace, joy, forgiveness, and the promise of Salvation. Now, you tell me . . .  is Jesus relevant anymore? Or, is he needed now even more than before?

Let me take the privilege of wishing you and those you love and hold dear, a very Merry Christmas, the rest of the day and throughout the upcoming year! Claim Christmas in your heart and carry it with you as we enjoy another year of Love.

Blessings,

Doris

Copyright 2014 Doris Gaines Rapp

Once Again Believe

Christmas was born in the hearts of those who love, thousands of years ago. Yet, the story continues to be told to this very day. There are those who want to silence the words of Jesus and wipe out the season of Christmas. In my book, Length of Days - The Age of Silence, this holiday has been reduced to a celebration of "things." It is called Gifting Day.

Is tomorrow Gifting Day in your home, or the birthday of the Son of God? It all comes down to: What do you believe? Is He present in your life?

Find ways to speak the name of Jesus with the gifts you give tomorrow. We sent Stuffies to granddaughters in Ohio two years ago, so this year we caught up to the four granddaughters here in Indiana. Along with their various animals, we purchased the zippered heart for each of them as well. Last Sunday, when we celebrated our family Christmas, we gave each of the little girls a baby in the manger figurine, to place inside the heart and stuff it deep inside their animal. "We put the baby Jesus in our heart at Christmas time," I told each of them.

Who or what is in your heart this Christmas? What teachings and traditions are you passing on to your family? Speak the name of Jesus and read the old, old story to those you love. For when the blight of winter comes, as it comes to everyone at some point in their life, they will have the warm, blessed image of the day they placed Jesus in the heart of Christmas, and they will feel Christmas love and hope again.

May your ears hear songs that put Christ in your heart this Christmas Eve; your eyes see glorious wonders of light and hope; and may you feel the brush of angel wings and once again, believe!

Doris
Copyright 2014 Doris Gaines Rapp

Include an eBook, that lifts up Christian Love, in their stocking this year. Copy the cover that is here in the side bar and give that as an anticipation of the gift to come.
Doris Gaines Rapp at www.amazon.com  and www.cokesbury.com

Shopping is That SImple

Okay, it's simple. I wanted to get a book for our son but ran out of time for shipping to get it here before Sunday - for our family Christmas Party. Last minute planning tends to change one's plans.
So --- I went on Amazon today, found the book in eBook format, copied the cover-art and printed it off for giving as a gift. I will buy the eBook Sunday morning "As a Gift," enter our son's email address and it will appear in his email in-box. Snap - shopping done.

Any of my books, all covers with titles are pictured in the right side-bar of this blog, can be purchased as an eBook. The eBook will appear in your friend or family's email in-box immediately. No my friend, it is not too late for gifts to arrive on time - just send them electronically!

Have a Merry Christmas and be sure to wish people you meet a Christmas blessing. In 2112, During the Age of Silence, Christiana lives in a time when Christmas is banned, only Gifting Day remains. Speak the love of Christmas every day - as often as you can, as joyfully as you can, for ever as long as you can - so the name of Christmas does not vanish from our society.

Merry Christmas dear readers,
Doris
Copyright 2014 Doris Gaines Rapp