Contest time!
It's here! A contest to win an Advance Reader Copy of A Time for Peace, third book in the Quilts of Lancaster County series for Abingdon Press!
All you have to do is tell me one way you've worked to achieve peace in your life. Do you meditate? Try to find a little time for yourself before your significant other and/or family get up? Put on headphones to get some "me" time?
Leave your comment on www.AmishHearts.com And great news: you can increase your chance of winning if you let Facebook readers know about the contest. (If you're not a FB friend of mine, just ask me to "friend" you. Be sure to tell Facebook readers to enter on www.AmishHearts.com
Have a great week. I'm going back now to finish proofs that arrived this week for the first book in my new series. I hope to get permission to post the cover soon.
Blessings,
Barbara
All you have to do is tell me one way you've worked to achieve peace in your life. Do you meditate? Try to find a little time for yourself before your significant other and/or family get up? Put on headphones to get some "me" time?
Leave your comment on www.AmishHearts.com And great news: you can increase your chance of winning if you let Facebook readers know about the contest. (If you're not a FB friend of mine, just ask me to "friend" you. Be sure to tell Facebook readers to enter on www.AmishHearts.com
Have a great week. I'm going back now to finish proofs that arrived this week for the first book in my new series. I hope to get permission to post the cover soon.
Blessings,
Barbara
I don't meditate but I do put on the headphones on occasion for some "me" time. I enjoy time in the Bible for "meditation" as well.
Would love to win the book!
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Too achieve peace in my life I love reading your books and all the other Amish authors out there, I also like to cross stitch . I would love to be a winner of one of your books.
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For "me time" I lay in bed and read the Bible and then a book every night for an hour to hour and a half. Love my family but I look forward to that time every night, it's so peaceful!
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I've learned through the years that possessions do not make me happy. Family makes me happy. Spending time with family is a treasure that we take for granted never knowing when that could end. As I've aged, I care less and less about "things" and more about quality time, being kind to others, reaching out to other who need me, or simply saying a kind word when it is needed. We never know what differences we can make to others, unless we try.
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The best way I know to achieve peace is to remember I'm not in control -- God is -- and to try to leave the not so peaceful things with Him! Sometimes I'm successful at this, sometimes not so much!
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To try to achieve peace in my life. I start my day off with prayer and reading from several devotions books I have. I would love to win one of your books.
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One of the best ways to regain some peace after a stressful day, is to take some tea out at night and sit down and listen and watch my horses munch on some hay. Horses are my "therapy" and help me with so much in my life. My mare most times would rather I scratch her and show her attention then she would be eating the hay! She is quite the lover.
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I have to find some time to read, even if it's the few minutes before I go to sleep. That's my time. I've realized that I can't be all things to all people, that has given me a measure of peace.
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I get a great sense of peace by reading.
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I find peace through prayer and Bible reading mostly but also through reading or sitting by the Ocean.
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To answer your question about meditation time, as a member of the secular order of Carmel,within the Catholic church, I am called to mental prayer 1/2 hr.a day...besides other prayer,vocal in prayer our Morning and Evening prayers We try to follow Christ praying in desert. If there's no one around to interrupt (Ha) it is very peaceful but many times my own wayward thoughts are the interruptions. The Amish way of life reminds me of the simplicity the Carmelites are called to in their Monasteries and Convents that we only try to be part of in our Lay order. I love your books. Thank you. M.A.
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The most peaceful thing I do these days is lay down on my bed and read books about the Amish including your books. It would be a joy to win your book.
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By reading I manage to get there.
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I have two ways to find peace. I can't think of anything more peaceful then having my nose stuck in a good book. That is very relaxing to me. The most important way I find peace in my life is my morning walks. This is my time with God. I talk to Him and I listen to Him. Sometimes the beauty of the morning sunrise brings me to tears. I so enjoy this time!
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Good morning Barbara, I find peace by reading from my daily devotional and sitting on my front porch and taking it all of the glorious beauty the Lord has blessed me with, I love the flowers and trees and watching the sun rise and the fluffy clouds and colorful blue sky, and I always take one of your books about the Amish with me to help me as they help me know truly blessed and merciful the Lord has been to me.. thank you for writing such real life stories that bring such inspiring messages to all of us, God bless you, I would love to win a copy of your book..
Have a glorious day... hugs and prayers always,
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I always head straight for the Psalms. To me, it's like reading the human half of a conversation with God. Speaking the words aloud to our Lord calms my spirit like nothing else.
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I travel to Amish country and sit with a good Amish fiction book at my favorite Bed
and Breakfast and listen to the buggies go by.
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I think about our Amish friends in Michigan, as they have helped me out so much in my way of thinking and the ways I should handle every situation. They have helped me out so much. I would love to receive a copy of this book.
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When things trouble me and to get peace in my life I read about the Amish culture and realize that life is what you make and it and all I have to do is remember to forgive people and it is like someone has lifted something from my chest and but love and peace in my heart.
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One way I'm trying to achieve more peace in my life is to cut back on activities. There are so many things in life that we are involved in that take the joy out of life. I'm trying to cut out activities that are not really important and just enjoy life more.
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I sew. I lock myself in my sewing room and try to do something creative.
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I find peace from praying and reading - My children are all grown now, so I can find time every evening to read.
I also shared the link on my facebook page
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My "me time" is at night before I go to sleep. I read my Christian fiction. Right now I'm reading Seek Me With All Your Heart". If I didn't have to go to work, I'd sit and read it all day!
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I keep my eyes on God and spend time reading His Word. That helps me with peace.
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Whenever I get stressed out or frustrated with all that I have to do, I just pick up a book and read it. It calms me, and makes me feel ready to take on all those tasks.
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I have daily devotions and Prayer every morning.
Love to win books.
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With the everyday hectic life we live I take 15 minutes each morning before leaving for work just to sit & relax. I have found this has helped tremendously now that I am a grandmother. When my granddaughter is visiting I can just sit & play with her because I have come to understand everything else will wait, because these moments fly by & you need to cherish this time in life.
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I find my peace by putting God first. I praise Him everyday for all the blessings He has given me. Always looking at what I have and not at what I don't have. I am blessed!!
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Oh That's an easy one !! Reading books about the Amish and their way of life. I love all books Amish and they have truly captured the peace by a strong faith. I find that peace also by reading the books you and the other authors write. I also pray a lot and take a lot of deep breaths in life ! I cross stitch also, enjoy my family and do a lot of canning. I find peace in trying to live the simple life and yes I do work every day and have to try and fit all of this in when I can. They always say "where there is a will, there is a way". I have the will and I have found the way. As long as you keep writing I will keep reading and we will all have peace !!
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I start & end the day with devotions. In the morning,I read out of a devotional book, & then read some passages out of the Bible, then I have prayer. In the evening I read more scripture & end with prayer. I am doing a program where I will read through the Bible in a year.
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My me-time is usually around 7:00 a.m. before my 85 year young mother gets up. i usually read a devotional online and then go out on the deck and meditate on it, while enjoying God's handiwork.
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I would love to win the A Time For Peace! Reading gives me peaceful times.
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When I get a little time to myself while my two little granddaughters are napping I get a cup of hot tea and read for a bit. I love that quiet time.
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I find that i find peace several ways, reading the bible, also reading Amish books as i always feel at peace a sort of inner peace as most have bible verses which helps.
I would love to win your book but even if i done good luck to all those who are entered & thank you for giving us the chance to win it
Janice
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I find peace by reading all the wonderful amish fiction books by you and other authors. I am actually going to Lancaster, Pa next week to visit amish country and absolutely cannot wait!
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I find peace and me time when I lose myself in the books that I am reading. Sometimes it is so hard to put the book down and return to real life. I usually do my reading in bed just before going to sleep and sometimes it becomes quite late or very early depending on how you look at it before I actually hit the pillow.
So if I was lucky enough to win this book, I guess that would mean more late/early nights. LOL
Thanks for all the contests you hold, giving us this wonderful opportunity.
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i would love to win a copy of your book as my downtime is curling up with an amish novel and getting lost in their world. just love it
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I find peace by using my commuting time for prayer and praise...lots of singing going on in my car! I spend at least 12 1/2 hours each week in my car so I use it to slow down and enrich my relationship with the Lord. I am also finding peace within my household by letting go of material THINGS I don't need or use. Giving them to someone who could and would use them. Trying to do a CLEAN SWEEP in my house, (Except for my books and my quilting stash of course, lol)!!!
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I find peace when I sit in my rocking chair on the front porch and marvel at God's beautiful creation.
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My meditation time is at night before I go to sleep or if I wake up earlier in the morning. Its quieter and I can think more clearly about things.
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I put your contest on my FB page to for my friends
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I find peace by starting my day with the Bible and follow that up with listening to my favorite Christian Radio Station on the way to school. Then end the day reading as well.
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My "me time" is first thing in the morning and the 2nd to last thing before I fall asleep. In the morning I read my bible verses without anyone around and the tv off. At night I read my Amish novels while my husband watches tv. When I get too tired to read anymore I say my prayers and go to sleep.
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I have been teaching kindergarten in a inner city school for the past five years. It is so important for me to achieve inner peace in order to be the best teacher possible. Many times I take school or student issues with me home because I love what I do and I love my students. After a long day the way I unwind and achieve inner peace is by taking walks or by laying in bed and reading a book. This is time where I can take a break from everything that is going on in my life. By making time for "me" it allows me to focus on all the other tasks at hand.
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When it hits, I immediately go into silent prayer, until I can get away. Then I go out into the garden, pull weeks, watch the wind through the trees, listen and watch the birds, prune dead leaves, branches, etc. off of what needs it and then water the potted patio plants. I go down to talk to Jake the donkey, scratch his ears, groom on him (which he likes so much he is known to grunt some) for a while, clean up manure, give him a snack or feed if it's time. I watch and listen, since we are out in the country. I learn much from watching wildlife of all kinds. Then I come in & cook supper, relate with husband & grown up children, grandchild, etc. as we eat together. I am biding my time until I can grab some more "me time." Then I slip off, open up God's Word, until I feel peace. Then I slip into a warm bath, in the dark, & as I soak there, I talk to God about everything bothering me that put me in this state. I keep in prayer, until whatever it is lifts, and then the peace comes, even if it is only in the eye of the storm, & there is more to come. I remember the lilies of the field, & I do not borrow trouble from tomorrow, but stand under His umbrella of peace that passes all understanding, being careful to stay just in this moment, as a little child would do, since we are to be like them. I will purpose myself to not look forward or behind, (which is a temptation), but to stay in His presence, in His place of peace for me, in that moment. Then I know it's time to get out of the tub, & I'll be able to sleep and abide wonderfully. It has taken great discipline to keep "blinkers on," as horses have to sometimes have, to not look anywhere, but straight up to Him. To go after Him, like the woman with the issue of blood, to touch the hem of His garment. I become like a terrier with a bone & I won't let go in that tub, until I have it from Him. I have learned to deal with constant pain on a fairly intense level. First I had to learn patience when not in peace or when in pain, so I could listen to Him, & listen to whomever was speaking to me, & reply lovingly. That was my first lesson, and little by little, the Lord has brought me along. It and many other things, are no longer difficult, but relished as Lord takes me up and over them. It is fun to look back later, after you've learned so much through the process, & be amazed knowing that you alone could have never done all of that which was required during such a time. I pray this will bring someone else along in his/her walk.
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Addendum: Should have also explained, in that time in the tub of waiting on the Lord, while also talking everything out & off my chest, I get the thoughts of how I should handle the situation, what directions I should take in the matter ... what I should say or how to respond, etc. Then after I think that through, the peace, like a warm blanket, wraps around me & all is well. THAT'S when I get out of the tub!
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I don't really need any "Me" time as my husband and I never had any children and it's just the two of us. But I do find it peaceful to sit in our swing under the tree and listen to the fountain and water wheel,read, and watch the birds.
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I turn to the One who created everything. It's leaning on someone who loves you very much.
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I like to listen to some quiet music and read.I would love to win that book.I find reading takes you into a whole new world.
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Bubble baths i love the Quietness
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The way I find peace in this hectic world is to read.I can get away and escape and go to a lot of different places.When I am stressed it helps to lose myself in a good book.Thanks.
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I like to sing to my two cockateils and sometimes do a little dance with them. They don't mind what language I use.
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I usually get a babysitter for my 5 kids (at least while my husband is deployed) and go to a local bookstore and get a coffee/tea and put my headphones on and listen to music while reading a good amish fiction book (at least that is my current choice genre)
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I take time to reflect on what I do have in my life that brings me joy and not on what I don't have. Enjoying God's love, my family, and good books.
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