Those of you who have read my second book, The Gift of Tongues: A Tool in the Hand of God, are probably familiar with the Broken Leaf Ministries imprint I used when publishing it.  I also used that imprint when publishing my latest book, God Revealed: Finding God in the Marriage Relationship.  That book, now live on Amazon, was also published under the Broken Leaf

Author's Note:  My mother passed away several years ago, but I still have, mixed in with other papers, stories, and other writings penned by her.  She actually did quite a lot of writing and was sometimes published in a few, small magazines.  Always her words are insightful.  I ran across this piece a few days ago and thought I'd share it here.  The original is typewritten (Mother did most of her writing before computers were prevalent) so I scanned it and ran it through an OCR engine.  Surprisingly, the OCR scan required very little correcting and what you see below is mostly just as she typed it.  Enjoy the read.

THE UNHAPPY SHEEP
by Roselee Reagan

Once upon a time there was an unhappy sheep. Life had not been good to this sheep. The farmer who owned her always beat her. The other sheep were always kicking Unhappy away. Sometimes......

Well, it's finally out there!  I finished my new book last Fall, but it's taken this long to get the publishing finished.  It's published with two distributors:  Ingram Spark (IS) (to take advantage of their massive, worldwide distribution system) and now, finally, Amazon.com.  Getting it listed with IS was relatively easy, although, since it was my first time trying out this indie publishing thing, it did take me a while to work through.  They have a good system, though.  It went well and both the e-book and print versions have been available to retailers

...we learned that Covid19 is getting close to home...the fearfulness and the mad buying frenzies are still foolishness.  God is our protector and our provider...We can trust Him!