Interview with Author P. Lynn Halliday -

Disaster! Around the Bend is a Fiction Middle Grade novel. It has been published by Elk Lake Publishing and was released in June 2025.

This book is about the story of a twelve year old girl who has to adjust to the changes in her life and she is afraid. Jan is afraid of exposing her real self to others, as many young people are. The need to face her fears leads her to plotting an adventure with just her siblings, something that will prove that she has found a faith that will help her all through her life. Just as in life, the adventure does not go as planned. Will her faith be enough for even this challenge?? That is the story. 

I feel that the lessons taught in this book are needed in today's world but are often missing in the lives of our children, hence my reason for writing this book.

It is my hope that this book will get into the hands of as many children as possible, to get them thinking and believing that they are all special.

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Website: plynnhallidaybooks.ca

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:01

God bless you and thank you for tuning in to Blossoms at My Life Radio. I am excited to introduce to you a new author. Her name, she goes under the initial P Lynn Holliday. She's authored many books. She self-published them, two of which are nonfiction and two illustrated children's books. She has a latest book that we're going to talk about called Disaster Around the Bend. And then she's also got one I just found out that's of a series and a new one that just came out from that. So we'll talk about that also. They're available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Numbo and other other sites, as well as her website, which we'll give you after. She is a pharmacist by profession, recently retired, and she's done extensive public speaking at conferences and workshops. She enjoys that role. She's also presented at Christian conferences across Northern Ontario. That's where she resides. And she does Bible lessons at her church, a ladies' group also. She's done things like teaching canoeing, outdoor education. Her husband and her are outdoor, avid outdoor enthusiasts. So they enjoy that. And most of the adventures in her stories come from personal experiences. And so I I am excited to be able to introduce to you author, Lynn Holliday. How are you, Lynn?

SPEAKER_01 1:30

I'm great. Thanks, Ramona, for having me on your show. I appreciate the opportunity to chat with you.

SPEAKER_00 1:36

Oh, yes. I'm excited. I love meeting new authors. And you know, because God just He has this pen, right? And He just loves to write stories through us. We just have to be willing vessels sometimes to be able to put that creativity together. Let's talk about who Lynn is. Since you're new to our platform, that way our audience can understand who Lynn is, and maybe like just a little bit about your background with Christ and then how you started to become a writer.

SPEAKER_01 2:08

Okay. Uh well, as you said in the opening, I am a pharmacist by profession. I've just retired from 48 years of being a pharmacist and now have a a lot more time to devote to my writing. I was I was sort of writing in between. And you know, at one point uh God nudged me to write. That very first book of mine was out in 2008, and and he said, I want you to write a book. And I said, No way, I'm a pharmacist, I'm not a writer. And imagine saying no way to the to to the maker of the universe. But nevertheless, I did. I said, I'm too busy, I I haven't got time for that. And and so, as we sometimes do, I ignored the nudging of the spirit at that point in time. It took a whole year, and then the Lord said, Okay, uh, you can ignore me for a while, but I'm a very persistent God. And so I was laid low with a ruptured appendix, and I couldn't work for three months. And in those three months, he said, Now you have time. Wow. And uh and as the l as the Lord will do, you know, his his way is sovereign, and uh, and he said, You won't come out this willingly, I'm going to show you. And and so he did, and he gave me words for my for my first book. They just every single day they just arrived, and they went down on paper, and I went, Okay, I guess I can write. And I go out for a walk in the morning, and I come back with the words for the next chapter, and in three months it was done, it was written, it was into a publisher, and it came out another three months later.

SPEAKER_00 3:43

Wow. And that one was very fast. It was called Stuck on the Rocks Again. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_01 3:50

And and so that was that was the first one. And I thought, well, that you know, this is a one and done type deal because I truly am busy. I work 50 hours a week as a pharmacist, and you know, there's not really an awful lot of extra time on top of family and farm on top of that. So so I thought that was it, but not so. The Lord has kept nudging me all along to the point that I've now got six books out, and and now I'm working on the seventh right now as we speak.

SPEAKER_00 4:15

Wow. And so you and your husband, you've served Christ for a long time since you've been married. How's that?

SPEAKER_01 4:24

Yes, yes, we're uh we're both uh both uh deep believers and uh and serve in the church that we have been placed in. We've moved six times across Northern Ontario, and so we've uh had opportunity to be in many different churches, but it's uh the same body of Christ. It doesn't matter whether you're up in in Kimmons or whether you're you're down in Toronto or over in California where you are. It is it is the same Christ, same body, same family. And we've been uh we've been blessed to be able to to work in in ministries, you know, we work, but we also work in ministries in our churches, whatever we're we're called to do. My husband is a a leader in our our present Bible chapel, and and I am a treasurer, and and and then you help out with kids' programs and you do whatever needs to be done. All small churches are like that, I think. But you know, God has a a purpose for us us all, and he doesn't make mistakes, and he puts us where we are for a purpose, and uh and we just have to have open ears and open eyes to to see what that is and willingness.

SPEAKER_00 5:27

I love that. 48 years as a pharmacist. Wow.

SPEAKER_01 5:33

Yes, I'm I'm just uh just passing 70 now and uh I'm still feeling like I could still do it, but I just knew there were just other things that were ahead. So here I am, I still and I don't even have to say I have to go to work tomorrow because I don't know, I just get to fit and do what I want to do. How nice.

SPEAKER_00 5:50

This is what that feels like, huh?

SPEAKER_01 5:53

Yeah, it's pretty nice. I should have thought about this maybe ten years ago. And the Lord has blessed both of us with good health, but I mean we're still adventuring on. We're heading off next week to go on a a kayak trip for ten days out into the out into the Atlantic Ocean for a little while.

SPEAKER_00 6:11

Oh wow and uh we're gonna enjoy that and uh you know life life goes on, doesn't just stop. Praise the Lord. I'm glad that you both are just active out, you know, outdoor enthusiasts and that you s have that strength and that ability to be able to go out and do that. That's so wonderful. And so what did you think? So now stuck on the rocks, because you said you've written s and self-published, so you do have some books with the publisher too, right?

SPEAKER_01 6:37

We do. The the two most recent books uh that I've written, uh The Disaster Around the Bend is a middle-grade fiction book, adventure book, and its sequel is called Disaster, Not My Plan. And uh and both books are aimed at spreading the word of God through stories. Like Jesus used stories to to share share great truth. In these stories, we have a a young, unsure of herself, 12-year-old girl who is who is has to move, she has to get out of her comfort zone, doesn't doesn't know what she's going to be able to do, and she's she's afraid, and and God shows her that He's with her no matter where she lives. And the fears that she has about not being able to do things right are met and and accomplished and dismissed, you might say, by a great adventure that she has going down a wild river with her brother and sister. And uh she comes into a disaster, and uh and they have to solve it, and they solve it by finding that God is with us in in every trouble we have, and and he doesn't leave us by ourselves. So she learns that truth in the course of that book. And her brother and sister, they change their characteristics a little bit as well because that's the way God works with us through the troubles and disasters of life. He he helps to mold us and make us into the people he wants us to be. Disaster, disaster not my plan, the sequel to that, takes the same little girl who's now a little bit older and takes her to camp as a camp counselor, and she helps to be a junior leader in a in a canoe trip where things go wrong right from the beginning, and she has to she has to learn how to be a good leader without overstepping the bounds, and she has to be humble in her post and realize that God is gonna use her if she go walks in humility and walks in his way. And again, his plans, not our own plans, but they're way, way, way better, and they find that out at the end.

SPEAKER_00 8:43

How many books do you think you're gonna have in the disaster series?

SPEAKER_01 8:48

There are the the third one is already written and is with the publisher now. So it is uh it will be it will be out probably the end of this year, and then there's a fourth one that I'm working on at this moment that I expect to be out early next year.

SPEAKER_00 9:01

Oh, wonderful. That sounds exciting. And those are all Yeah, those are all with Elk Lake Publishing. So you have South Publish and Elk Lake.

SPEAKER_01 9:12

That's correct. Okay. Oh, I also the Stuck on the Rocks Again was done by a a group out of Belleville called Essence Publishing. Okay. They were the uh they were the group that I I went with there. And but Elk Lake is my first traditional publisher who is working with me, and they've been, I'll tell you, just a an amazing, marvelous team to to work with. Just so encouraging. You know, even as they're ripping out portions of my book because they don't belong there. They're uh they're encouraging and they they they taught me so much.

SPEAKER_00 9:43

Oh, that's great. So, I mean, just kind of talking about the publishing and writing part, because a lot I get a lot of authors on. What what do you I mean, how do you feel about the self-publishing versus going to a traditional publisher?

SPEAKER_01 10:00

Well, there's pros and cons to both. The traditional publisher of course pays up front, so pays, you know, pays to publish the book themselves, they pay for the editing, they they take care of you in that way, and then you need to buy your books from them, or they get them printed for you, and and then of course you can sell them, or or they list them on Amazon. The self-publishing, I went through a self-publishing group called Tellwell out in British Columbia, and and so I bought their services to publish my book and to get them illustrated. Uh, so I got really I got my own say. I got to dictate how I wanted that done. I had it edited by them, but I I had the last say there. There wasn't somebody that was overriding my decisions. And in traditional publishing, the publisher has a lot more say in the in the matter of uh of course. But of course, they have more experience too. And then self-publishing, I have my own print ready files. So that means I can use a local printer here to print off my books. So I can print small lots, so that's kind of handy. I can work out of a small area that I live in and print 10 if I need 10 for the next book show I'm going to. I don't have to order 50 or 100 at a time. So, you know, so there's different money issues in both in both. I don't I get a hundred percent of the royalties from the self-publisher, and I don't get a hundred percent of the royalties from uh from Elk Lake because of course there's a share involved. Right, right, right, right. Yeah, but but apart from that, both groups uh offer distribution, and so that's useful. And both groups have a methodology to to get help, and that is also useful. Both of them suggest ways to market, but do very little in terms of actual marketing themselves.

SPEAKER_00 11:47

Yes, yes, we know that. I know that just with my books, yes. I was with a traditional Christian publisher 2015 and 2016, they got arrested for embezzlement. So then a lot of us public a lot of us authors lost out on a lot of money that we had given them up front. And so then I thought my writing was over, and God said, no, it's just starting. And I'm like, how am I gonna do that? And so somebody showed me how Amazon on KDP that you could kind of do it all on your own. And so that's kind of how I do my books now. I use different helpful places like Fiverr.com and people that you know, I'll get people to help me edit and things like that, but for the majority part of it self-published. I'm I'm kind of still leery about going with a traditional publisher just because of what happens. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:42

Yeah, that would that would certainly fit you off. Certainly, Alcreve has been a hundred percent what they say they will do, they do. Praise the Lord. Exactly right, exactly right. And and the editors have been so gracious in how I mean, really, let's face it, when you poured your heart and soul into a book, you put everything into it and you prayed over it, and then you've got the wording just the way you think is perfect, and then you send it in, and they say, Oh, and by the way, we're going to take out 10,000 of those words. And I tell you, it takes you back the first time, and you just go, Really? And then you look at it again, and you watch the script uh tighten up and and and get snappier and and quicker to read, and and you go, hmm, I guess I knew what they were talking about. So I'm a pharmacist, I'm not a a sci I'm a science major, not an arts major. Exactly. So I I should be listening to them, right? Right, right.

SPEAKER_00 13:37

Okay, yeah, that's so true. Uh okay, so disaster, let's see. That's around the bin, and then stuck on rocks. So it's a oh then now ghost tales. What was that one about?

SPEAKER_01 13:51

Oh, so the goat tale for my I have two goat tale stories out. Now they're there's stories about life on the farm. Now, my husband and I have a uh a hobby farm, you'd say, with horses, sheep, and goats on it, plus turkeys, chicken stocks, anyway, and all manner of critters. But uh the goats were a very interesting part of that farm. And no matter what place you put the goats, they always got out of that place and and went and pruned all your trees and and nipped the tops off of all the plants that you have in your garden. They like petunias particularly well. And so they would make escapes all the time, and I just noticed, gee, they're fun. And I thought they would make wonderful allegories of what children are like. And so I can tell them a truth about what the Lord has to say to us about children and and and himself through a goat. So we have Scruffy the goat, and Scruffy finds his way. Scruffy the goat is born a little as a little kid on the farm, and right from the get-go, he forms a little club with the rest, and he's he and the scruff kids form a gang and and they're causing all sorts of trouble all over the barnyard and getting to getting into mischief and ending up in the pig pen and and eventually escaping regularly every night to go and uh eat in mama's garden. And and then they get put in pen prison for their efforts. And and and then little scruffy, little scruffy eventually breaks out of there and ends up getting lost in the in the forest, and and the the farmer and his wife, mama and papa, they're sure that they've lost this little kid. So they pray for him and go out every day and night to look for him out in the forest. And the Lord preserves that little that little scruff because he finally turns to to God and says, Help me. And and then he is brought back, and the message of the story is God loves us no matter what we do and doesn't want any of us to perish.

SPEAKER_00 15:47

I love that. I love that.

SPEAKER_01 15:49

So that's that's book one. Book two is called Super Scruff. So all his notoriety is as getting lost and then being found again has gone to a head. So he figures that he's gonna be the new the new superhero of the barn there. So he goes around trying to prove how wonderful he is, having a totally wrong view of what super is or super's meant to be. And so he has to learn that lesson over the course of the course of the book, and eventually learns that super is uh really being super in God's kingdom is to be of service to other people. And and so God has a different definition of super than the world does. Amen. That's the lesson, that's the lesson of that. So there's a there's a third one in the works right now, I'm having it uh illustrated right now. It's called even pigs have purpose. And and it will again be funny, funny little funny little tales about the interactions between the pigs and the interactions between the goats and all the rest of the critters on the barnyard, and uh, and the lesson that will be learned will be that that we shouldn't disdain anybody that's put in our presence because everybody has a reason for being there.

SPEAKER_00 16:55

Amen. Amen. I love that. So that's uh that's goat tales. Yeah, this one right here in the works, it says Step Into the Wild, The Journey to Find God.

SPEAKER_01 17:06

Yes, that that now that was interesting. Now you see, if you want to get published by a by a real publisher, you have to stick to the genres that they recognize the genres. So I laughingly called this one an embellished nonfiction. Okay. And she said, You can't call it an embellished nonfiction. What do you mean by that? And I said, Well, it means that the story is a long story. Uh it's a story basically of my my life where I grew up in a city and how did I end up in the wilds of northern Ontario. And how did I end up end up knowing God as my savior and and and serving him? So it's a story of a girl who grows up in a household in the city and and and in a household that doesn't know God at all, and God is only a swear word there, and and ends up living in northern Ontario and adventuring all through Northern Ontario, and on each of the adventures, learning something about her growth as a Christian. And so it's my journey of faith, kind of like a memoir, but uh, I've ended up printing this one as opposed to publishing. Okay. So it's a printed book, not available on Amazon, only through me directly. And if you went on my website, you'll see it listed on the website. And if you want a copy, then we can make arrangements for me to send you a copy. Oh wow, okay. But it's printed at a local printer. They uh helped me to format it, which made it a much less expensive option, and I can print as many as I need for the times that I need them.

SPEAKER_00 18:31

Okay, praise the Lord. And then you have is it musings? Is that how you say that? Musing musings. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 18:39

So so so musing musings of an early morning riser. So you were speaking to a person that gets up at four o'clock most mornings. Oh Lord. And and that's my that's my very most productive time of the day. I get up very early and and I go out walking, often by flashlight when it's uh when it's winter time and in the morning time, uh in the summertime. I, you know, yeah, you get up with the early birds, just as the sun is just starting to come up over the horizon. And I have talks with God. That is my prayer time being out. So my musings of an early morning riser are the little devotional moments that I've had with God as I get up in the morning, and it's all based on a song I learned as a young, uh young camper, the Christian camper went to, called At the Golden Break of Light. When or When Softly Falls A Night. And it takes each line of the song and and puts a musing about that.

SPEAKER_00 19:41

I love that. And so is that one available from you personally, also?

SPEAKER_01 19:45

That one that's going to be available for me personally as well. It also will be just printed. You know, it's a it's a heavy, heavily pictured book. It's got beautiful, beautiful pictures illustrating the various spots in life where I was and what was going on at those times. And it tells us a memoir, but it it says it's starting at this age, at the age of 70, is my life over, is a stuff done, am I done with adventuring? And it basically says, no, God will send other adventures to come along. They'll be different, they'll be changed, but but uh we grow with the the time and the age that we're in, and there's always a spot for us to be. I love that. And uh yeah, so it's a it's a story of beginnings. When I starts when I'm eight years old and climbing trees and throwing uh pine cones down at my great aunt who used to babysit me. Being a typically rather bad kid, and and then growing into an adult who went adventuring with and without my husband and at camp and without camp, and and just how God used to those adventures with my life to change me.

SPEAKER_00 20:50

I love it. I love it. Lynn, I because looking just at what you're writing, and and it's I could hear the passion when you're talking about your children's books. Why do like how did that happen? I know that God just told you you're gonna write a book, but you know, that just to write to children, that's that's gotta inner how do I want to say this? There's an importance to that. And did God instill that importance to you?

SPEAKER_01 21:18

I think what what the Lord showed me, I think, is that when we go through adventures either in our family life and on the farm or or in our personal lives through adventures in the wilderness or at school or work, that we have all have stories. God writes stories to us in our lives or through our lives. And that He doesn't write those stories just to sit in, to be told, to be drawn out at family events and say, Do you remember when this happened, or you remember when that happened, or at a family wedding, or at a funeral? He has given us these stories to share his action in our lives with those around us as a witness to the fact. That God is alive and kicking in the lives of each of us. So He said, write your story. So I've been writing my stories. And so I would call myself not as much a writer as a storyteller.

SPEAKER_00 22:15

I love it. I love it. And it sounds like, you know, the characters are there with you already. It sounds like I would imagine that you hear something or see something, and you're like, I'm gonna write about that. Like it's just already in you.

SPEAKER_01 22:31

Oh yeah. It's there, and some of it draws from from work from people that I I've met at work, and some draw from from my own family. My my own um middle daughter will not will not read my first disaster book because the voice of the girl, I it's written in first person, uh, sounds so much like her. She says, What did you write about me, mother? I said, I changed the name. Don't worry about it. Anyway, she so she it's it has taken her a year to even start reading it. That's funny. She says, What do you want for for your birthday, Mom? I'd like you to read my book. No, okay. What else do you want? That's funny. So it's taken her quite a while to get past the fact that her exuberant, flamboyant voice is the voice that I've chosen to write in in my story. So she's she's over the top enthusiastic about all things. If she's got uh a fun moment that's happening, she's as likely to throw herself in the air and twirl in a circle or or throw herself melodramatically on a couch if the end of the world has come because because she was looked at sideways by somebody she doesn't like or something, you know. So all of those things are hidden away in my my mother's mind, and they come back through the story. They they come out the goats, they come out and everything. The poor girl, she she's being she's been seen in many of my books. I love it. I love it, I love it. One of these days I'll I'll be creasing the whole library of them and then she'll have to read them. They shall have no choice, exactly.

SPEAKER_00 23:59

Um so, like for the person that's out there listening to us that that feels like I want to write a children's book, what kind of advice can you give to them?

SPEAKER_01 24:10

Be real. Be real, and I mean, there's always something they want to say in the children's book, but make it make it fun and make it flow as part of the story. I just uh just actually had the joy of reading a review on my my newest disaster book. And the thing that really popped out was that the story is good, the story catches you. The story tells about this wonderful, very real kid that's going through this issue, and then but she wants to say something to you, and she does it, she weaves God through the tail naturally as God comes into our lives naturally. And that is what I would say about the story. Weave the Lord in because the Lord is woven into your life. Weave him into your stories because he doesn't just jump out and slap you about the head and you have to do what you're told. He eases in, he's a he's a gentleman, he's persistent, but he is weaving in and out of the tales, and he brings people into our paths that are showing him, and and we absorb all that. So that's what we should emulate, I think, in stories.

SPEAKER_00 25:14

I believe so, and and there's so many, you know, children's books that have the Lord woven into it, are that's just important right now today. I think children need to hear and and be able to think with their heart, you know, because when they're reading, they're just in the pages reading, reading, reading, and you just it's speaking to their heart. And I think the kids need that. Adults need it too, but our children, that next generation needs to find some kind of hope.

SPEAKER_01 25:46

I I agree with you. I and I I don't know what it's like in the US, but in Canada here, I do find that that God has not has ceased to be in every household. Yeah. In every he's he he's he is not thought of, yeah, uh like in generations gone by. And so I think we have to reintroduce the fact that God is alive, God is active in your life, and he's an ever-present health and trouble, and all you have to do is ask. Yes. And and I think if we can teach our kids that, they're gonna know there's a higher power, therefore they don't have to they don't have to labor in their own power and strength.

SPEAKER_00 26:23

Right, because they don't teach us that in college. They don't, you know what I mean? As you get older, it's kind of like just a lost thing. And so you're right. And it's like that here in the US too, unless there's a foundation, you know, but somebody has to speak life into these kids where they know that yes, he's real and he's able to hear, you know.

SPEAKER_01 26:45

Yeah, yeah, exactly. And I think that it the the novels, especially novels, novels that are aren't stamped, must read this if you want to be a Christian, but but stamped as stories. Have got to be used in order to penetrate the the modern mind and and and plant a new thought. Whereas the kids that are already going to church, well, they're they're probably getting stories, but are they absorbing them? I don't know. But if we speak in real terms of things that they're familiar with, as as our good Lord did when he was on this earth, then I I think that the point will come across, it'll sink in and say, Oh yeah, the lost son, he came back and he found grace. You know, so we have to let our kids know that if they're lost from us for a time, they're still gonna be welcome back in grace.

SPEAKER_00 27:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:34

So important. I think I think we we have a we have a job to do.

SPEAKER_00 27:40

Yeah, we do, definitely. And you know, sometimes we have we pray for our children that you know they don't listen to us, or you know, people say like they, you know, I'm trying to instill God, and and they don't want anything to do with it because everyone around them doesn't have anything to do with them, right? And a lot of times they won't listen to our voice, but if you find them a good story and they read it, yeah, that's how it can penetrate.

SPEAKER_01 28:07

Yeah, and sometimes it'll have to be through uh your YouTube channel, or it'll have to be through uh something visual because that is the the place that we live in now. But for the the bookworming kids, and there's still some out there, uh, a good story, they can get immersed in a good story and come away with it, you know how it replays in your mind. You read a story right before before bed, and then you're lying there trying to sleep, and you're thinking, duh, why'd I do that? Because now all I'm doing is lying here thinking about that story.

SPEAKER_00 28:34

Amen.

SPEAKER_01 28:35

But yeah. And so if we can plant a good story in their minds that that talks about subtly talks about God, then I think the Holy Spirit's gonna use that to to work on their hearts.

SPEAKER_00 28:46

I agree with that a hundred percent. Amen. I love that.

SPEAKER_01 28:50

Amen.

SPEAKER_00 28:50

Well, I'm really excited. So, I mean, our show is gonna air in May, the show that we're recording today. And so book two is already out of the disaster series. And what was the name of that one again? Is Disaster, not by plan. Not by plan. And then you said the third one is gonna come out when?

SPEAKER_01 29:14

I would say early, early next year.

SPEAKER_00 29:16

Okay. So there will be a third one. And so, listeners out there, if you want to get a hold of Lynn's book, Disaster Around the Bend, that's the first one. And you could actually order both now when you're hearing my voice today. That book two is out. Disaster, not my plan. And so you could get both those books and then wait for the next one to come out. That's exciting, Lynn.

SPEAKER_01 29:43

Thank you. And it is the third one, it is really exciting. I'll have to say that I allowed my imagination to fly on that one.

SPEAKER_00 29:51

I love it. I love it. I love it, I love it. Gosh, we're already to the end of our show. It happens so quick. How can people get a hold of you? You have a website. You want to go ahead and let them know your website? Yep, it's uh P Lynn Halliday Books C A. Okay, so that's P L Y N N. Halliday is spelled. Books. Books dot C A. C A. C A. That's her website. Um you probably have an Amaz Amazon author page as well, don't you?

SPEAKER_01 30:35

I do, yes, I have an author page, and you can find that uh very simply. Well, all you have to do is go to disaster around the bend and and click on my face, and that'll take you to the author page.

SPEAKER_00 30:46

Awesome. I'm super excited about what God's doing through you. I'm very excited about your next vacation. I bet you anything God's gonna instill something during that 10-day trip that's gonna be another.

SPEAKER_01 31:01

Some adventures are gonna happen, yes, for sure. No question. We we get adventures every time we go out the door.

SPEAKER_00 31:09

But it's been a pleasure talking to you and just talking about your books and what God has been doing in you. And I really appreciate your time today, Lynn.

SPEAKER_01 31:19

Well, thanks, Ramon. I appreciate you taking the time to do this. And it's so nice to speak to a fellow Christian about the the work of storytelling for God.

SPEAKER_00 31:27

Oh, I know. That's what's so important. Lynn, do you have any last minute words that you'd like to say before I have you pray us out?

SPEAKER_01 31:37

No, not much. Apart from I encourage you to go to the website just because I have all sorts of lots of fun background stories that you might get a kick out of that sort of surround the books and talk about life on the farm and and some of the fun things that have happened in our very busy lives. If you're interested in sideline stories that are for free, then go to the website. There are lots there.

SPEAKER_00 31:57

Amen. And so all of Lynn's information will be in the bio section description of this interview, so you'll be able to see that there in case you missed it. And most of all, I think you can tell by our discussion to you, our listening audience, it's it's just knowing that God is in everything that we do, and he desires so much for to be a part of our lives. And and he he does love writing stories through us, and and he does love that when we can share things about him. And you know, maybe you might have been in that place where you don't feel like you're in a good spot because maybe something has happened, and I think Lynn, along with me, can both testify that life is hard sometimes, but that God is still there with you. And it's just calling out to him and and allowing him to be a part of that situation and allowing him to pull you through that because there is victory on the other side. He died on the cross so that we could have victory, and so that we could become overcomers. And, you know, no situation is is unable to be met with him. His love just surpasses everything. And I just pray that those listening that can, you know, understand how much he loves you right where you're at. He loves you so much right where you're at. And it's just a cry out to him that he can hear you and he wants to be your Lord and Savior in all situations to help you get through it. And so, Lynn, I would love it if you would pray us out. And again, thank you so much for taking this time with me today.

SPEAKER_01 33:34

All right, all right, Father and God, we just thank you so much, Lord, that uh we know that you've been with us during this interview and discussion. Thank you, Lord, for bringing your family together, no matter how far the distance, we're so close because we're all in that same family. Father, we are joint heirs with Christ in in your kingdom. And we thank you so much for your presence. We thank you for your interaction in our lives, for sending the Holy Spirit to nudge us when we don't want to do something. We thank you for not giving up on us. Father, we just praise you for this day, Lord, and we we praise you for the words that you give us. May our words be a blessing to the people that hear them and uh and be food for thought. For we ask this all in your Son's name, Jesus. Amen.

SPEAKER_00 34:17

Amen and Amen.