The Message Glorious: Almost Famous Authors' Faire Holiday Book Event

Please come join Mom and me for the Almost Famous Authors' Faire Holiday Book Event on Saturday, December 11, 2010 from 10am-5pm at the Clifton Center, 2117 Payne Street in Louisville, Kentucky. We will be there along with at least 50 other authors and their books. It should be a fun filled day. We hope to spread "the message glorious" to everyone we meet!

Free admission

Plenty of FREE parking

50+ Authors and their books

former CJ columnist Billy Reed is our guest

music performed by Jeff Rehmet

The Resurrection of the Mallard Ducks - an excerpt from The Message Glorious

My granddaughter, Kelley, has an overwhelming love for animals, a trait I think she inherited from her Granddad. When she was just a little tyke, she would help Lloyd prepare his prize banties for the county fair. They would wash and groom those little chickens, spending hours fluffing their feathers with a softly blowing dryer.

When she came to live with Scott and me after her Granddad's passing, I found her love of all things animal most challenging. She just couldn't pass up a stray kitten or a homeless bunny, and she would beg and coddle me into accepting them into our care.

I found I just had to set some limits on her exuberance or our pet menagerie would have just overwhelmed us. On one occasion, she was just determined to buy four mallard ducks to place on our pond.

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Well, all went well for several days. The ducklings were housed in our small barn, and Kelley was faithfully tending to their needs. One evening, however, she came bursting through the back door crying hysterically, "Oh, they're dead! They're all dead!"

In her hands she carried all four tiny ducklings...all four indeed...dead. "What happened?" I exclaimed, and she recounted that the ducklings had gotten so dirty in the barn, and she proceeded to give them baths; but, no sooner than she placed the ducklings in the cold water, they all collapsed.

My mind whirled and, knowing I had a load of towels drying in the dryer, I quickly turned off the dryer and placed the ducklings inside atop the hot towels. I prayed aloud, "O God, you have all power. You can bring these ducklings back to life." ...and, miracle of miracles, all four ducklings revived and lived to spend many days on the pond.

Later on, their natural predator, a hawk, took their lives...but I thank God my Kelley didn't have to think she killed them.

The Message Glorious

Almost Famous Authors' Faire Holiday Book Event

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