Elaine W. Miller Shares How Cancer Changed Her Heart on Keepin' It Real Interview

Does cancer change your life? Absolutely. In many ways cancer makes one's life richer, fuller, brighter, and deeper.  Listen to Lisa Buske and Elaine chat girlfriend-to-girlfriend about her latest book Praise the Lord and Pass the Chemo! satan did all he could to disrupt this interview, so the first 19 minutes are a bit broken up in places. The last half has blessings you will not want to miss.

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Thank you Lisa Buske for your heart for the hurting. Lisa's life changed the day her sister Heidi was abducted. The most awful experience of her life made her, in many ways, richer, fuller, brighter, and deeper. Lisa's book Where's Heidi will encourage any going through the worst of times. To learn more about Lisa Buske and listen to other "Keepin' It Real" podcasts, please hit

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Troubles open our eyes to priorities and fill us with compassion for the hurting. God promises in Deuteronomy 23:5

. . . the Lord your God . . . turned the curse into a blessing for you, 

because the Lord your God loves you.

Which is why we have A Hopeful Response to A Hard Reality and we can say Praise the Lord and Pass the Chemo. Whatever life throws us, bring it on! God has won the victory!

My love and prayers for all hurting today,

Why Writers Need Cheerleaders

Last night was the final night my writer's group met with all eight of us present. I'm moving three hours away and trust God to put other writers in my life to encourage, critique, hone, improve, and celebrate each other's lives and attempts to become the best writers within our gifting. We've had fun, we've cried, we've published, we've disagreed, we've laughed, we've become the greatest of friends. Lisa Buske wrote a blog about our group. It's worth a read, and I hope an encouragement for you to start a writers' group in your community. You'll be glad you did. You'll be better for it in more ways than in improved writing. Here's her blog: Let her words splash some serenity on you today!

http://www.lisambuske.com/blog/tops-tuesday-more-than-a-writers-groupwere-family

Prayers for all writers today. The writing life can be difficult. The road is less painful when you have a writer's group of cheerleaders dancing with you! Write on!

The Love Story Written Between the Lines of "Where's Heidi?"

Where's Heidi? is a love story. It's a story of a sister's love, a community's love, a parent's love, and a Savior's love. There's another love story tucked between the lines as well. The love of a husband for his wife.

Ed and Lisa Buske were newlyweds when Lisa's sister was abducted from the local convenient store. She was never seen again. Lisa writes Where's Heidi? from a sister's perspective. But what about her husband? How was he in the midst of this tragedy?

In an instant, Ed Buske's life changed. In some ways I suspect he lost the bride he married months earlier. The honeymoon was over. Would that loss be temporary or permanent? He had no way of knowing. But he stayed and he loved and supported and held and kissed the cheeks and forehead of the woman he vowed to love until death do they part. A lesser man might have bailed. But not Ed.

Yesterday as I watched Ed Buske sit by his wife at her first book signing, I smiled and thanked God that Ed loved Lisa through those awful years.  He did what my book, We All Married Idiots encourages husbands and wives to do. In a crisis and in the everyday, hold on, settle down, make nice, cheer on, sit tight, and look up!

The Buske marriage story could have ended quite differently. Many marriages don't make it through the difficult days.  

  My husband says Philippians 2:3-4 are the greatest verses on marriage in the Bible.

"Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit,

 but in humility consider others better than yourselves.

Each of you should look not only to your own interests,

but also to the interests of others."

 

Thanks, Ed, for not considering yourself in those days, but considering your Lisa as more important than you. Thanks, Lisa, for writing that truth between the lines of Where's Heidi?

How about you? Is your marriage in a crisis?  I encourage you to hold on, sit tight, look up, and consider your spouse's interest above your own. Ed did, and their marriage glows!

You'll be blessed by Lisa's book Where's Heidi? You can order here: http://www.amazon.com/Wheres-Heidi-One-Sisters-Journey/dp/0615683606/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1365099269&sr=1-1&keywords=where%27s+heidi

Add another blessing and buy We All Married Idiots. The Buske's seem to be buying them in bulk. You think they might be on to something?  Order autographed copies from this website, or order on Amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/We-All-Married-Idiots-Marriage/dp/0984765522/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345900119&sr=1-1&keywords=we+all+married+idiots

Splashes of Serenity on your life as you live by Philippians 2:3-4,