Meet Maddie, a beautiful young girl growing up in the 1940s in the hills of West Virginia. Always the dreamer, she yearns for happiness and searches for the meaning of life. Life isn't what she expects and the twists and turns along the way are often filled with hurt and unfulfilled dreams. Maddie stumbles and falls along many different paths trying to find happiness but it is ever elusive and not easily within reach. Join Maddie in her journey of spiritual awakening when she discovers that the answer to the meaning of life and personal happiness is achieved when we follow the right path and invite God into our lives.

Katie, a sad young girl, made lots of bad choices. She learned that unmerited love comes in many ways from God. He at times uses a sweet grandma who bakes cookies and hugs you and speaks of a God that sends love to touch your heart with peace and joy. This is a glimpse into lives where change comes, where laughter rings out, cookies are baked and joy is spread through hugs and poured forth through Gods enduring love. Rosemary has a passion for reaching out and touching lives through her creative use of storytelling and prose. She has one novel in print, Disgraced, and is co-author of two other works of fiction, Maddie's Paradise Mountain and I Remember Grandma. She is also a frequent guest speaker on the teachings of God through prose and is active at community gatherings.

Throughout the seasons, and each and every day, the Lord reaches out desiring to have fellowship with us and to bless us beyond measure. My prayer this day is that your heart will be touched by these poems, which come from the cries of my soul to my God and Savior. May your heart also be stirred by the beauty of God's creation in the pictures taken by His servant and child, Dorothy Postlewait.