Guideposts is one of my favorites. I believe I just read about you in one of them. I will pull out my book "The Power of Positive Thinking" and re read it. Thanks for sharing this.

Hi Debbie, My Aunt Ruth was a friend of Mrs. Peale's and they talked so well together. I know you do have a treasure in knowing them. Nothing better than Positive Thinking !
Barbara (and Pam) from Janesville CA

Thanks for the info. I need to read that book. Waiting for disability to be approved, and while I understand it is going to be, just want to get money to pay bills and have a little Christmas. Am trying to be positive.

Debbie, I've been published now for 5 years with Steeple Hill and have to agree that reading "The Power of Positive Thinking" encouraged me through many rejections but also YOUR books kept me inspired as I struggled to make my dream of becoming an author come true. Always a fan, I've been reading your blog but never commented until now. Thank you for being such an inspiration to me!

Discovering God's Pattern for my life was the purist white icing on the proverbial birthday cake for me, complete with its many unextinguishable candles and all its glory to go along with it! I read an excert that he wrote with his wife so many years ago, in Family Circle I believe, and saved it on my refrigerator for everyday intercourse with the strength of the word staring back at me everytime I reached for the door handle. I have been applying those very words for so long now, it is like breathing in the oxygen God created for us to breathe! LIFE in Positive Mode! Thank you for reaffirming that for me, and giving me even more strength to be, the woman God created me to be! Bless your giving heart for the miracle of vision, beyond sight; you are a treasure in your own right, twinkling with God's own majestic colorway! Amen sister, amen.

Hi Debbie..I'm so glad you could actually meet Mrs. Peale. Guideposts has been a longtime support to me, and I give many subscriptions for Christmas gifts each year. God Bless you, Debbie.