My background as a school guidance counselor, and degrees in Special Education and Psychology help me tell compelling dramas about how we respond when our dreams are shattered.
Will we call on God for strength to forgive and find our way back?
If you love reading Christian fiction, women’s fiction, and stories about faith, forgiveness, and redemption, you will absolutely love Sunset Pointe: The Baby Between Us.
Readers who love Christian fiction, women’s fiction, and stories about faith, forgiveness, and redemption will love Sunset Pointe: The Baby Between Us. Not just another romance novel, it’s a compelling drama about how we respond when our dreams are shattered. Will we call on God for the strength to forgive and find our way back?
It has been an exciting week. It always is for authors where their new book is launched. It is especially so for me since this is the launch of a new series. Sunset Pointe: The Baby Between Us is now available on Amazon books in both e-book and paperback. I think you’ll find the story nostalgic and encouraging even though I am tackling hard subjects families have been faced with through decades.
Here’s a snippet of my first review. To read it in depth, go to my author page on Amazon’s Author Central.
Jonathan and Karla are soulmates, having fallen in love in the third grade. However, the day before their Senior Prom, Karla learns that Jonathan has been unfaithful to her. As a result, he is now the father of her best friend, Missy’s, baby.
When both Jonathan’s and Missy’s parents try to force them to marry, Jonathan can’t see any way out. He takes off—leaving behind his responsibilities and his “one and only true love.”
The lives in Sunset Pointe are plagued with twists and turns, leaving Jonathan and Karla feeling lost without each other.
They have always shared a strong faith in God. Will they call on Him for the strength they need to forgive each other and find their way back to what they once had?
Brenda C. Poulos delivers an exciting modern story about an ageless subject. Fans and first-time readers will love Sunset Pointe: The Baby Between Us.
Poulos’ talent for writing with passion and truth shines in this story. Her plot offers layers, complications, and twists. Readers keep turning the pages, eager to see what happens next, until the end of this 60,000-word tale.
1 Samuel 16:7b– “…For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
Are you reaching a milestone birthday this summer? Perhaps this little story will encourage you!
Pam’s friend, Dorothy sent her a gift for her 80th birthday. She carefully removed the beautiful floral paper to reveal an exquisite antique mirror.
She picked up the phone immediately and called to thank her. “I have just the place to display it,” she told Dorothy.
“I hope you’ll use it,” her friend replied.
“Oh, honey. At my age, I’d rather not look at all these wrinkles.”
“Pam, you’re still lovely, of course. But remember that while people may look at our outward appearance, God looks at what is truly important—our hearts.”
Proverbs 14:26- “Whoever fears the LORD has a secure fortress, and for their children it will be a refuge.”
For many of us, Father’s Day is a remembrance of fathers who are no longer with us—those who have passed from this life to the next.
For others, it is a celebration of dads who still live, work, play, guide, and provide for their families.
Just like moms, dads come in all nationalities, ages, sizes, and temperaments.
Parenthood is an awesome responsibility.
For one day each year, we pause to celebrate our fathers and thank God for their presence in our lives.
I was blessed to have an earthly father who had his priorities straight—family second, only to God.
He took Proverbs 14:26 seriously. Our home was filled with unconditional love and godly guidance.
Thank you, Dad. Because of your example, we still feel your presence in our lives today.
Ephesians 4:26a – “In your anger do not sin . . .”
For months, Tom suspected his wife of cheating.
Unable to keep his bottled-up emotions at bay any longer, he finally confronts Liz.
When she confirms his worst suspicions, he goes berserk, grabbing his gun, and storming out the door.
He drives to his best friend’s home. His heart beats wildly in his chest. He feels sick to his stomach. Brad is the last person he’d suspect of something like this.
Tom is consumed by the anger of betrayal. Conflicting thoughts fill his mind.
As he stares at the gun on the seat beside him, Ephesians 4:26 runs in a continuous loop in his head.
He remembers his pastor’s sermon on the topic of anger. It is an emotion that every human being has experienced. “The key to beating the influence of anger in your life is to “not let the anger result in sin . . . don’t let anger take over and “rule in your heart.”
Tom doesn’t recall how long he sat in front of Brad’s house, struggling to the the right thing, but it was the following day when he returned home to talk with Liz.
It was a difficult period in their lives, but some three years later the couple reunited. They’ve shared their story at couple’s conferences over the past twenty years, hoping that their obedience to God will somehow influence others to resist the impulse to retaliate against those who sin against us.
Genesis 2:24- “. . . a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.”
Since Father’s Day is coming up, my mind has been on my own father who passed almost four years ago.
One thing I remember is his love of vocabulary—“new words” always fascinated him. Once he heard one, he used it often. By putting it into practice, he cemented it into his mind.
I recall when he put the word tandem into “practice.” Other similar words, like synchronize, also mean “to work smoothly together, as one; alongside each other.”
Dad took a real liking to this word because it was his lifelong mantra. He took the Bible literally when God commanded that married couples were to leave their parents and cleave to their new husband or wife. They were to be “as one.”
Whether camping or gardening or helping with homework, they were always seen together.
Mom became fearful as her Alzheimer’s advanced. I heard Dad remind her on a daily basis,” Remember, Georgia, we are as one.”
He meant it 100%
When Mom needed assisted living, Dad moved to a small facility with her. Married since the ages of twenty and twenty-one, he made sure they were never separated.
Mom passed first. Dad went to be with her in heaven some ten months later. Beautifully orchestrated by a loving God, they are still in tandem—forever.
Psalm 139:16 – “Your eyes saw my unformed body. The days you ordained for me are written in your book.”
With a sparkle in her eyes and a spring in her step, Miriam greeted guests as they arrived to help her celebrate her 100th birthday!
A reporter and cameraman had been invited to capture the rare event. The reporter asked Miriam, “To what do you owe your long life span? Good nutrition? Clean living?”
She answered with a smile. “The Bible says only God knows the moment He will take us home to glory and there’s nothing that can change it. So, I suppose you’d say my days are numbered by my Creator.”
Diet and exercise certainly play a key role in living a healthy lifestyle, but God reigns supreme!
And, yes, Miriam is still going strong.
Psalm 119:105- “Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.”
From April 18-25. 2026, a week-long event, America Reads the Bible took place in our nation’s capital.
Lasting eighty-four consecutive hours, nearly five hundred people read scripture from Genesis to Revelation.
Pure Fix carried the reading into homes nationwide.
There was no commentary. Just reading from the Word of God.
Pastors, worship leaders, entertainers, and so on honored God in this reading of the entire Bible, hoping to see families awaken back to simple Christianity.
Matthew 7: 9-11 ““Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!”
As we prayed for our home to sell—for eight long months—God kept assuring us that He would bring the buyers of His choosing . . . and the timing would be perfect for both us as sellers—and the other party as well.
He did just that. It couldn’t have been better.
We began to look for a new home. Each one we found had some kind of “issue” that caused us to continue searching.
Then, God led us to our “dream house.”
I was in tears as I thanked God for a home that far surpassed our expectations.
I opened the Bible for my morning devotional time with God and read this verse from Matthew 7.
It blew me away!
God reminded me that He is a good father.
He wants to give us good things—if we will only trust Him and wait on His timing!
Don’t settle for a “stone” when God wants to give you “bread”!
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