The Covered Deep by Brandy Vallance

Are you waiting for your true love to arrive, but the years keep passing with no sign of him on the horizon? What if he came, but with a heavy price tag attached? As I anticipate soon holding my published …[ read more ]

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Big Dreamers with Down Syndrome

In honor of Down Syndrome Awareness Month and the role Trisomy 21 plays in my novel, today I’d like to highlight some big dreamers with Down syndrome. Actors If you grew up watching Life Goes On, like I did, you …[ read more ]

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Adopting Faith Hill, the Girl They Always Wanted

In 1967, six years before Roe v. Wade legalized abortion and make it more accessible for the average woman, an unmarried girl named Paula got pregnant. When the baby was only three days old, a Christian couple named Ted and …[ read more ]

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A Wide-Open Door for a Great Work

“There is a wide-open door for a great work here…” (1 Corinthians 16:9). I grew up in Maryland in a close, extended family with our own “compound” and big holidays and Sunday dinners. After graduating from college, however, God led …[ read more ]

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Funny Things Kids Say: Michaela Brunke 2014

One of my favorite things about having little kids is all the funny things they say. My oldest daughter, Michaela, turned three in August. Here are some of the funniest things she said in 2014: 10 During worship team practice, …[ read more ]

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