Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Take My Life and Let It Be (standard Protestant Hymn)

Hello Grafted In Reader,


It's nearing the start of August 28, 2025 in my corner of blog land. We have some catching up to do!

First, the title of this post is based on an old hymn and suggest you google the lyrics for prayerful inspiration. I think it appeals to all persons of faith.


Second, I want to share the description with you of my fourth book title, "From My Red Chair: A Short Story Collection".

I hope to release this in about seventy-five to ninety days.

Cover Blurb

Fiction/Short Stories

The late author, Wallace Stegner, observed that strength is measured by the burdens

one can bear. In David C. Russell’s new collection, From My Red Chair, he offers

commentary on life’s difficulties through six stories. Imagined situations and their

respective participants will appear as different from each other as dusk is from dawn.

Serenity, complaint, familial flexibility, expert opinion, and amends between associates

are viewed in the confines of created, real experience. Though each burden borne and

response chosen varies, the characters share the sense of affliction, struggle, and the

response it requires. This author offers some homemade insight through these stories

under the umbrella we call mental health.

  


I also have a story that will likely be in the Christmas Anthology titled, Divine Moments. More about that in the coming visits.


Recently, I have started reading daily reflections offered by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, IFCJ. Google, Holy Land Moments Devotions, and sample away!


We had sad news this day in America, another mass shooting. This time it was children and older adults attending a morning Catholic Mass in Minnesota. This seems to be the only country on earth where recurrence of this happens again and again. Pray for those affected by this tragedy and others like it!


Until our next visit, may the Lord bless and keep us. Thanks for stopping by, and invite a friend to read this blog.


Shalom and blessings,

Mellow Rock

David C. Russell, Author 

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