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Made Available in Paperback “Tell the Enemy to Scat!”

18 Apr
My New Paperback Book

My New Paperback Book

I am so excited to annouce my latest book in paperback “Tell the Enemy to Scat!”

http://www.amazon.com/Tell-Enemy-Christine-Gilliam-Hornback/dp/1482555735/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1365089866&sr=1-1&keywords=Tell+the+Enemy+to+Scat

Authored by :  Mrs. Christine Gilliam Hornback
Tell the Enemy to Scat is a compelling victorious true story of a couple’s twenty year journey of faith to receive their promise that they would have children. Go down faith’s road with Christine as she opens up her heart to share her most inimate struggles, discouragements, disappointments, greifs and finally triumph as she battles against a true enemy of her soul and wins. Smile with her as she shares how God used the smallest things to encourage her and let her know that he heard her hearts cry for children. Rejoice with this couple as they craddle their children in their arms and give their Heavenly Father all glory!

About the author:       Christine Gilliam Hornback is a wife of thirty two years and a mother of two young boys, ages twelve and nine.  She homeschools her children and is an author, artist and an inspirational speaker. Christine has lived in Douglasville, Georgia for twenty seven years. She is originally from a little rural town seated in the foothills of Kentucky on the Ohio River.  Christine grew up in a very loving family which included both her parents and five sisters.  Her childhood holds a wealthy bank of memories that Christine draws from as she writes. Caleb’s Cereal released in April 2012 is Christine’s latest Juvenile Fiction. The pages of this book are action packed as three young boys, Caleb, Colin and Tan go on an elephant riding, cliff hanging, and crocodile snapping adventure into a magical oasis to destroy evil poachers. Caleb’s Cereal is sure to please young readers everywhere. Also released in 2012 is Tell the Enemy to Scat an Adult Inspirational Ebook that tells Christine’s personal and  encouraging true story of being blessed with two boys after going childless for twenty years.  The paperback is also available for “Tell the Enemy to Scat”   Finally, Christine’s first published book Jenny Lynn’s Secret Mission, voted best Juvenile Fiction by http://www.christianstoryteller.com in 2006 is a heartwarming story about a little eight year old girl who discovers the true meaning of Christmas by performing a secret mission for her community. Please check back often with Christine as she has many more books of various genres to come!

Suzy Homemakers At it Again! My Recipes for Homemade Fabric Softner!

15 Apr

Homemade with Vinegar 002

DISCLAIMER< THIS IS WHAT WORKS FOR ME AND MY HOUSEHOLD< I AM MAKING NO PROMISES< AM NOT PAID TO SELL PRODUCTS OR ANYTHING ELSE, THIS IS MEANT ONLY TO GIVE OPTION AND IS MERELY A RECCOMMENDATION BASED ON WHAT I LIKE! 

Yay, So very Simple and Absolutely Wonderful!

  1. Recipe for Homemade Fabric Softner Using Essential Oils sorta of all Natural which I like!

Pour White Distilled Vinegar in an empty 2 liter bottle

Add  as much Pure Essential Oils as you wish of any scent that you wish.

I actually added about 5 drops of pure Essential Lavendar Oil which scented it more than enough

for our family.

I then shook it up to evenly mix it.

Pour 1/4 cup to 1/2 cup into each load on the rinse cycle…

Your clothes will come out feeling so soft and will be static free!

The Natural recipe  works wonderfully by itself, however there is another option!

  depending on how organic or natural  you want to go!

Homemade with Vinegar 001 Conditioner

2. Recipe for Fabric Softner using White Vinegar and Hair Conditioner

The first time I even made Homemade Fabric Softener using White Vinegar this was the recipe I used!

6 cups white vinegar

1 bottle of hair conditioner, whatever fragrance you love

4 cups of water

Mix all the ingredients together, again I use a recycled 2 liter bottle and shake before each use.

I use approximately 1/2 cup in rinse cycle  and clothes smell great and are soft. The conditioner

will settle to the bottom or float to the top, so the fabric softener has to be shaken with each use.

Yay! Feeling like I’ve Got Somethings Accomplished!

5 Apr

Yay! Feeling like I’ve Got Somethings Accomplished!.

Yay! Feeling like I’ve Got Somethings Accomplished!

5 Apr

Hello All,  It’s been awhile since I’ve blogged so I missed really taking the time and doing it!  I have been a little busy bee lately and it is wonderful but takes me away from my blog at times. 

This is my “Something” that I’ve  gotten accomplished!

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&field-author=Mrs.%20Christine%20Gilliam%20Hornback&search-alias=books&sort=relevancerank

My New Paperback Book

My New Paperback Book

I have had  my latest Adult Ficion book, Tell the Enemy to Scat on an Ebook since July 2012, but I wanted to do a paperback version to take do booksignings with ! Which by the way I have a huge event coming up On April 13th as per the following:  Everyone is Invited! 

Neva Lomason Library Book Festival will be hosting local Author Christine Gilliam Hornback along with 30 plus other authors as she speaks and signs her Juvenile Fiction books entitled Jenny Lynn’s Secret Mission and Caleb’s Cereal. Christine will have her new book entitled Tell the Enemy to Scat as well! Come out and support local Authors and your local Library.  710 Rome Street Carrollton, Ga 30117, ph (770)836-6711

I also was able to finish all the edits on my Audio book from my latest Juvenile Fiction Caleb’s Cereal! Below is a sample of the audio from Amazon.com which I thought was so COOOOL!

http://www.amazon.com/Calebs-Cereal/dp/B00BWSL3IM/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1365181132&sr=1-1&keywords=Caleb%27s+Cereal

 

Juvenile Ficion released April 2012

Juvenile Ficion released April 2012

Finally I’ve been teaching painting lessons to a couple groups of children and adults.  I’ve been doing a Sip-N-Stroke painting class usually the 2nd Saturday of each month.  I also teach at the GMKS and Beyond Arts Center in Douglasville, Ga every Thursday, and then at a homeschool group on Monday’s so Yay! 

My normal days of course include taking care of my husband of 32 years, and  raising 2 boys ages 12 and 8 and getting them homeschooled.  Have you ever tried to feed two growing boys?????It is a full time job, believe me!   I love my life, GOD is so very good to me and my family….Looking forward to walking through some long awatied doors that he has just recently been opening!  So Yay!  Today is my celebration of getting somethings accomplished!

Painting for Therapy

5 Mar

We all need a time to just relax and to clear our minds, My time was yesterday!

I was so blessed to actually be able to take the day and paint to my hearts content.

I love to try new techniques and some I get down and some I still need alot of work on,

none the less it’s therapy for me, it’s good for my soul!Lighthouse Sunrise on the LakeSpring on the Farm

Peace is my Compass!

19 Feb

compass

I just love it when my life seems to be moving in the direction that I have hoped that it would.   For many years I have been doing things, such as being a wife, a mother, homemaker,  raising children, homeschooling those children, painting, teaching students how to paint, writing, publishing books, involving myself in ministry, blah blah and the list does go on and on.  I felt with all my heart the Lord had spoken in my spirit to do all these things, however many times it seemed I couldn’t  see the fruit of any of it right away!  What did I do then?  Well like most people, I would question the Lord to see if I missed him, and when I was sure I didn’t I continued doing what I felt in my heart I should be doing.  “Just keep on keepin on baby, just keep on keepin on!” 

Eventually I began seeing  some fruit.  My husband and I have built a life of 32 years, My children are growing up to be fine young men who love the Lord, what else could I ask for!   I am hardly a famous artist but I have sold several paintings,  nor am I a famous Author, but I have three books published with many more on the way.  I was in Women’s Ministry for many years and I have seen many of their lives transformed by the power of GOD.   I have not seen all the fruit that I’ve sowed my life into to produce, but I am still  moving in a perfect destined direction laid out for me by Father GOD , so I am convinced I am just getting started and that I will get to see all of it! The Lord tells us that if we leave things behind to follow him and his plan for our lives that we will see great successes in this life and not only in our lives on earth, but our lives to come in Heaven!  That record of course will tell the true story of what we spent our lives on!

Right now, I am sort of racing in different directions  because I’ve been so busy, but the main thing I have to guard against is just getting into doing things, without having a clear direction or goal as to why I am doing them.  Face it we all can busy ourselves, but that doesn’t mean that we are doing what we should be doing in the Lord to get us where we need to be.  More times than not we are busy because we have not mastered the art of saying “NO!”  Although the Lord opens many doors, we have to know that the enemy will shove us through some doors as well if we do not again master the Art of saying “No, I cannot do that or No, I do not believe I am to get involved with that!”  I’ve alway been one that if I took on something, I would beat it absolutely to death before I gave up on it!  The proverbial beat the dead horse syndrome…I had it and honestly may still have traces of it in my system, so I have to be very tuned in to the Lord to make for sure I am hearing him and following his direction. 

Peace is always my compass!  If I feel like I am being driven instead of lead I will not have peace, but instead, I will find myself short-tempered and  very impatient not only with myself but with others.  I have to stop what I am doing and run back into the Lord’s presence and wait until I get clear direction. When  I am in the center of the Lord’s will I  will always have  peace.  However, that is not to say that I may not feel a  little overwhelmed with what I have to do.  I can do nothing without him so when he co-labors with me to accomplish what he desires for me to accomplish, I can do it!  I have been in such a place of peace that even though I had much labor to put in, it never seemed like work or labor at all!  It was just perfect peace and joy to do those things! 

 The Scripture tells us to labor to enter into His rest!  Our labor is not to do everything by the sweat of our brawl, but instead to get into our prayer closets often, alone with him and be still enough, long enough to hear his still small voice direct us.  Stay until you have a clear direction and peace like a rudder to steer your boat in the direction that he is blowing you in!  Let God’s peace that surpasses all understanding be your compass!  It is a wonderful gift to have and if we will let “her( perfect peace) do her perfect work, then you will receive the promise! Bless you, may the GOD of all peace be with you and co-labor with you to receive all of his great promises!

Fun Paintings for my friend’s children!

4 Feb

Fun Paintings for my friend’s children!.

Dreaming with GOD

29 Jan

Dreaming with GOD.

Dreaming with GOD

29 Jan

You are never too old

Dreaming with GOD may sound like a wild notion for some of you, for others it makes perfect sense.
My Pastor has been teaching on dreaming with GOD or really seeing yourself as GOD sees you. Dreaming with GOD, also means that you have what GOD wants to get to you. Why? The answer is so that only GOD can get glory out of your life and your life’s purpose will be fulfilled the way that GOD planned for you.
So many times we see ourselves in the light of how we grew up, what our parents said we were, or maybe how our friends
saw us, or our teachers etc. Unfortunely, our images of ourselves are usually so distorted that when the
Lord begins to show us a different image on the inside we have a difficult time seeing past what others told us that we were.

When I first became a Christian I was going to a very “traditional church.” By traditional, I mean it was the Bible belt south that
preached that hell was hot and if you didn’t walk the line that it (hell) would be your eternal home. Don’t get me wrong I do believe that
the wages of sin is death because the scripture states if you sow to the flesh you will of the flesh reap coruption, however the scripture also
says that we can sow to the Spirit and of the Spirit we reap eternal life. When? When do we recieve or reap eternal life? Many would say when we
get to Heaven, but according to scripture that is not true. The minute we are born again we crossed over from death unto life. We became the
sons and daughters of GOD; He adopted us into his family. So, if we have become His children, do we not have access to what Jesus
died to give us when we accepted what he did for us? We have eternal life the minute we accept Jesus. Yes there is an eternal everlasting life “in the sweet by and by”, but we don’t have to wait it is ours now!

Dreaming with GOD usually begins with simple desires. The scripture states in Proverbs that if we keep our eyes stayed upon him we will have the
desires of our heart. The scripture also states that a desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul! I believe the scripture in Jeremiah 29:11 I know the toughts I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. I love this scripture because it shows us that the Lord already has a wonderful plan for our lives, so what are we waiting for? The scripture also says he does exceedingly, abundantly, more than we can ask or think. Have you ever
just thought or imagined how much that is…if you have then you are Dreaming with GOD!

Dreaming with GOD is not some mystical thing, it is simply thinking and meditating upon what he has done for us and what he says is ours now that we have come into a heavenly kingdom. Jesus taught his desciples to pray Our Father which art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy name, Thine Kingdom come thy will be done.
Where? On earth as it is in heaven.. What is available in heaven? Everything, everything that we could possibly imagine or hope for, right? He has made it available to us through Jesus’ death and ressurrection, we are not orphans who have nothing, NO, we are Kings Kids and we have a Kingdom that we can access by faith…! How exciting to know that what things soever you desire when you pray you shall have them! The limits are off!

The dreams that the Lord has given me persoanlly are things that I cannot fulfill without him! He wants to co-labor with me to fulfill his purposes in our lives. If I could have done everything on my own then I would not have had need for a Savior! But, I can do nothing unless I am connected to the vine. The vine is Jesus, He is my lifeline! He is my door to the Kingdom, he is the only door to the Kingdom! Dreams fulfilled by GOD only come by faith…All of what the Father has for me can only be obtained by faith in what Jesus has made available to me. The Bible says that hope deferred maketh the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul! It gives our Father great pleasure to give his Kingdom to his children…Won’t you begin dreaming with GOD today and let him
cause your dreams become reality!

I wanted to encourage you that its never too late, you are never too old to dream.  If you have dreamed a dream and it did not come when or how you thought it should have, dream again.  Don’t quit until you see your desires come!  Get up and walk toward that thing whatever it may be, just don’t quit!

Where’s the Christmas Party?

10 Dec
I'm dressed, now where is the Christmas Party?

I’m dressed, now where is the Christmas Party?