For "women of style and substance",
More Magazine is
the leading voice of today’s sophisticated, affluent and accomplished woman, who is enjoying the richest years of her life, sharing news and advice on beauty, fashion, health, career, travel, money and relationships from her distinct perspective.
It is a health and beauty periodical geared toward women over 40 and has been a Christmas gift for several years from my friend Kathy. I enjoy leafing through each monthly publication as soon as it hits the mailbox.
More Magazine is having a "One Amazing Thing" story contest open to everyone with a story to tell. Here is what
More Magazine says about their contest:
We all have a story. One of my favorite stories is about the birth and subsequent decisions her father and I made about her health care in the first hours of her life.
My partial submission to the "One Amazing Thing Story Contest" (screen shot only) is this:
That picture on the left is of my first born (of whom I write) and me, the 20 yr. old college sophomore who was unexpectedly faced with a critical decision concerning the medical fate of this child.
This is not the entire story. And there is yet more to write almost forty years later, but that is for another place and time.
If you would like to submit an amazing story of your own, or read and vote for others' submissions, here is the link:
READ and VOTE here.
Who knows, maybe we will get a meet-up at Barnes & Noble's in the future.
Ten days after Jesus ascended into heaven, the twelve apostles, Jesus' mother and family, and many other of His disciples gathered together in Jerusalem for the Jewish harvest festival that was celebrated on the fiftieth day of Passover. While they were indoors praying, a sound like that of a rushing wind filled the house and tongues of fire descended and rested over each of their heads. This was the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on human flesh promised by God through the prophet Joel (Joel 2:28-29). The disciples were suddenly empowered to proclaim the gospel of the risen Christ. They went out into the streets of Jerusalem and began preaching to the crowds gathered for the festival. Not only did the disciples preach with boldness and vigor, but by a miracle of the Holy Spirit they spoke in the native languages of the people present, many who had come from all corners of the Roman Empire. This created a sensation. The apostle Peter seized the moment and addressed the crowd, preaching to them about Jesus' death and resurrection for the forgiveness of sins. The result was that about three thousand converts were baptized that day. (You can read the Biblical account of Pentecost in Acts 2:1-41).
