From BRAT TO BOSS_2

I'm so excited to announce:

From Brat to Boss is done!!!!! YAY!!!!

Danette H. Moen
with From Brat to Boss

        I went to Arielle and Jaron's to help get my future grandchild's nursery ready for the baby. (That's another blog.) When I got home from that trip Kevin met me at the back door with two small boxes. I noticed that both boxes were from my publisher. I hurriedly opened them. It was a feeling like Christmas when I was a child.
       I opened a hardback and a paperback. I had seen the pictures of the book while I was going through the approval stage of publishing.  I guess, I had thought it would be like opening any package of items or books that we have ordered in the past. I mean, I've been working with the publisher for months on the book and I've seen the pictures of the cover. But something about holding a several year dream in my hands was more exciting than I had thought it would be. WOW!

      Now I'm in the next stage, marketing. Ahhh, yet another learning curve. July 8 - 11, 2018 my book will be displayed with a huge variety of items for retail bookstores in Nashville, TN at the 2018 International Convention for Christian retail. It is called Unite 2018. How do I get people I don't know to find and buy my book? I mean really, I'm a regular person not a movie star, a famous entertainer, or TV star . I'm the pastors wife of a loving, friendly church but not a mega church.

     So I'd like to ask you to join me in prayer. That's the only way I know to start anything. Yes, this book has been prayed over many times while writing it, as well as during the publishing phase. So it is only right that this step should be prayed over. I learned as a small child to pray about everything. Then as I grew up and started reading the Bible myself I found out that wasn't just something my parents believed and taught us. It's in the Bible! Philippians 4:6 (NIV) says "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present you requests to God."

I would like for you to pray with me that the right people will see my book. And that God's will for it will be done. Also pray for the young people that read and study "From BRAT to BOSS".


Blessings on you,
Mama D

Luke 18:1 (NIrV)
Jesus told his disciples a story. He wanted to show them that they should always pray and not give up.

Would you like to purchase "From Brat to Boss"? If so, I would appreciate it if you would purchase it on June 4, 2018 from amazon.com. If my family and friends will purchase it on the same day, I may be able to sell enough to get Amazon's Best Seller for the day. I've been told this could get me a sticker on my book showing it as an Amazon Best Seller and that could possibly help people that don't know me find my book.

https://www.amazon.com/Brat-Boss-Life-Lessons-Joseph/dp/1973621584

With great LOVE comes great SORROW

I'm from a large family. On my daddy's side of the family was Grandma (maw maw) and Grandpa (papa), my daddy and his sister. On my mother's
side of the family was Grandma and Grandpa, my mom, 3 sisters and a brother.

As my parents and their siblings got married the numbers doubled and then they started having us (the grandkids). After we grew up and got married and started having kids the numbers continued to grow.

As I got older and moved away from home I would talk about my family. People always said you are so lucky to be a part of a big family. And I always agreed.
The first Christmas after we had foster girls we went to my family's Christmas. (which is our tradition because Christmas Day is the day as many family members that can gathers together) One of the girls asked Kevin, " What are they laughing about." Kev said he told her, "I don't know they laugh the whole time we are here. And Danette always cries when we leave."

As a pastor's wife, after seeing and being apart of many families losing loved ones, when I was told you are so lucky to be a part of a big family. I would agree and I started to add, "but with great love comes great sorrow."

This week is one of the times my family and I are experiencing "the great sorrow." My daddy's only sister, Aunt Jeanette, passed away after a long hard battle with Alzheimers. Her four children, grandchildren, family and friends are mourning her greatly.

Matthew 5:4 NIV
"Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted."

I know from the passing of grandparents, aunts, uncles, Kevin's parents and others that  this sorrow never really leaves. It gets easier to deal with in time but great love (family love) never leaves us. We have memories that God allows us in His great mercy. Small things will remind us of our loved one. I remember after my papa died. Grandma said, "She was opening the back window and the way the sun was coming up was so beautiful she thought how much my papa would have loved it."

I was raised to believe in the Lord, Jesus Christ and I know that many of my family members also have accepted Jesus as their Savior. Knowing my aunt was a Christian gives me the comfort knowing I  will one day see her again.

In my mind and heart, I see family members and friends that have gone on before us in Heaven, greeting and hugging (we are a hugging family) her.  I see them standing around my Aunt Jeanette everyone trying to get a hug and squeezing through the crowd to be next. Everyone is so happy to see her and she is no longer in pain. Just like I cried when leaving my family to go home, we will cry for now but one day we will see each other again.

I pray God will give my cousins and their children the strength and comfort they need in this time of great sorrow.

Blessings on you,
Danette (Mama D)

John 5:24 NIV "Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life."