Release day celebration for Not Quite Mr. Darcy

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For my Not Quite Mr. Darcy release day celebration it was most fitting to have tea! Though I have to admit, it's not completely authentic because the style of tea I served with finger sandwiches, scones, and petite pastries, would normally be served late afternoon, and ours was for lunch. 

It was a joy to celebrate with dear friends (including my daughter and granddaughter). We were 3 generations honoring the one who has gone before. As a table decoration, I included the butterfly card my daughter made after my mom died. I also wore one of my mom's butterfly brooches. 

We talked about Pride and Prejudice, and the trivia that can be accessed through a special link in the back of the book. The trivia tells some of the tie-ins with P & P and also where some of the book ideas came from. I also shared what comes next in my writing, but I'll save that for a future blog post.

Pride and Prejudice is one of my favorite books. Through the years, and many rereads, the one thing I always wanted it to also have was more of a spiritual focus that would point people to God as the ultimate hope for the difficult life events they went through. When I decided to write my first book to publish, I knew it had to have a tie-in to Pride and Prejudice, but mine would take the reader straight to God. 

I'm honored that God let me write this book, and my two great hopes for it are for it to introduce people to Christ who may never have had a relationship with Him, and to draw people closer to Him in their walk. Wherever we are in our walk with Christ, we are continually growing, and continually battling the distractions of the world to keep our focus on Him and the truth. But one day we will see Him face to face and no longer be held back by our sin nature! We will be able to love and know Him fully as we are fully loved and known!

Hebrews 12:1-2 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,  looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

1 Corinthians 13:12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.



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