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		<title>Thoughts from the Backwards Jogger</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 13:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, literally. In an effort, I suppose, to stay true to my life&#8217;s overall theme, my knees are weird. FYI, my knees have ALWAYS hurt. When I was a teenager running bleachers during basketball conditioning I thought it was normal&#8211; that everyone&#8217;s knees were aching. A trip to the ortho in my 30&#8242;s when I was playing tons of team tennis and my knees were killing me revealed that no, not so much. I&#8217;m just consistently weird. After x-raying my knees and studying the film, the doc seemed to find it genuinely amazing that I could even walk. He pointed out the uniquely non-simpatico parts of my oddly shaped joint and asked incredulously, &#8220;Are you in pain?!&#8221; I considered directing his attention to the appropriate blank on the form I had completed while vacationing that morning in his luxurious waiting room (not) with his up to date magazines. (We landed on the moon! Who knew?!) Instead, because I have noticed that not everyone on the planet gets my equally weird humor, I explained that I thought it was normal. That would be when he joined an increasingly large choir and their same tired old refrain to let me know I was not&#8211;normal, which brings me to the point of this post I am writing in my IPhone while I&#8217;m walking because, well, I don&#8217;t know. Don&#8217;t distract me. Hear ye, hear ye: Having reached the delicious age of fifty I may be actually showing signs of maturity. Stop, that! I have evidence! I&#8217;m through acting like my knees don&#8217;t hurt. I asked God for new ones and the answer seems to be, &#8220;I&#8217;d rather you appreciate the ones you have.&#8221; I&#8217;m now doing way less jogging and way more walking. Granted, I COULD still jog all the time because I have discovered that my interesting knees DO NOT HURT ONE LITTLE BIT when I jog backwards. (What? The experiment just occured to me one day.) That said, my darling husband does have to live in this town and the poor fellow can only be expected to endure so much ribbing about me. &#8220;Phil, I saw Shellie jogging this morning. Backwards.&#8221; What&#8217;s more, Dixie Belle acts like she doesn&#8217;t know me when I do it. So, I am raising the flag on this one. No more backwards jogging. Unless I drive out to the turn roads on the farm. Hugs, Shellie ~And we have now made it back to the dock. Here&#8217;s a pic of my loyal friend now. I can&#8217;t imagine why she won&#8217;t look at the camera&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Serendipity and Unanswered Prayers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 23:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Serendipity: a happy accident or pleasant surprise. Our lives are full of accidents and surprises. Being able to see the happy and find the pleasant in them&#8211; that&#8217;s the hat trick. More than a decade ago, after filling away yet another rejection letter, I squared my shoulders and took another path. I spent the next several years working feverishly to build a platform for my writing. Progress was painfully slow. Little by little I obligated myself here and committed myself there until one day I found myself back into the proverbial corner. I&#8217;d worked myself into a position where I had to create content week in and week out for my website and radio affiliates. All Things Southern became a burden. I began chaffing at the demands of my own creation. She was requiring too much effort, too many words. I felt sure I was spinning my wheels. I longed to lay it down and write the books I felt sure she was preventing me from writing. Despite having felt that ATS was my mission field from the onset, that I was meant to lighten loads and ease burdens with weekly stories and chuckles wrapped around little nuggets of devotional thoughts, I began negotiatingwith God. I&#8217;ll lay this all down, I told Him repeatedly, if He would just give me the okay. He wouldn&#8217;t. I&#8217;m sorry. I don&#8217;t know how else to say that. But I&#8217;ll do ladies&#8217; seminars and concentrate on teaching the Word, I told Him. You know how I love that! All I got from heaven was a big fat no. In the middle of that season IT finally happened. I became a published author. After having self-published my first three books, I now found myself with a for real agent and a contract with a for real publishing house. Booksellers and readers embraced Suck Your Stomach In and Put Some Color On, (and I&#8217;m eternally grateful), allowing me the privilege of working on a follow-up, Sue Ellen&#8217;s Girl Ain&#8217;t Fat, She Just Weighs Heavy. Still, I persisted in kicking against the weekly deadlines. I continued dreaming of the &#8220;other things&#8221; I wanted to write that All Things Southern was keeping me from writing. One day I&#8217;ll tell you the story of how I came to lay my want-to down. God and I didn&#8217;t &#8220;strike a deal.&#8221; I yielded. I decided to want what He wanted before I wanted it. And then I asked Him to make it so, to move my heart by what moved His. Ever so slowly I began to value the weight of All Things Southern that was always forcing me to cry out to Him. And strangely, that led me to gratitude for the very demands I&#8217;d been resenting. Talk about your pleasant surprises! Oh, and those words I had been hammering out week after week? With my new perspective I began to see how they had become the bones of those first two Penguin releases. That whole time in the trenches&#8211;...]]></description>
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		<title>Bring it on, FIFTY! This belle ain&#8217;t skeered!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day my author friend prefaced what she was about to say to me by telling me it would make me laugh. Duly warned, I was prepared for a chuckle but her next comment gave me the kind of belly laugh that I dearly love. Author Friend said I was &#8220;the sanest person she knew.&#8221; If you are a friend, family member, or long-time reader you will need a moment to compose yourself. You might also be briefly preoccupied with concern over said author&#8217;s inner circle, but I&#8217;m going to move on. Catch up when you can, &#8217;k? So, here&#8217;s the context for that little funny. I am turning FIFTY today and I&#8217;m stinking excited about it! I don&#8217;t know this for sure but I&#8217;m thinking my level of enthusiasm for this milestone birthday could be rare and some might even think a tad cray. (I understand the cool kids say cray instead of crazy but I just typed it and my spell check isn&#8217;t at all pleased. My spell check is apparently a dinosaur.) I was already looking forward to turning fifty when that same author friend emailed me with a story that sent my enthusiasm off the charts. She had told her preteen daughter that I was turning 50 and her baby girl said, &#8220;She should have a Jubilee!&#8221; The young girl went on to explain to her mother that it was one of her vocabulary words and it meant a celebration. Well now, after reading that email&#8211; and seeing the Scripture links my friend included where Jubilee is mentioned in the Word, I went on my own Scriptural treasure hunt and came out plum slap happy! As I type these words, I&#8217;m bursting with excitement about what I believe the Lord is showing me about this upcoming year. I share them with y&#8217;all, my lovely readers, to invite you to come with me and share the journey. I intend to write to you more about Jubilee in the coming year. What I want to share with you right now will be a very simplistic explanation of the Biblical Jubilee. First mentioned in the Old Testament, the year of Jubilee was a once every 50 year celebration. It was a time of freedom, joy, and festivity ordained by God Himself when offenses were forgiven, debts were cancelled, and slaves were set free.  That&#8217;s good, but it only got better. Centuries later, Messiah would open the scroll to Isaiah and read these words aloud to those listening in the temple, &#8220;The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. Because He hath anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor: He hath sent me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.&#8221; According to the translation, that last line in your Bible might read &#8220;to proclaim the favorable of the Lord&#8221;, or &#8220;to proclaim the year of the Lord&#8217;s favor.&#8221; Regardless of how it is translated, however, it is widely accepted that Jesus was proclaiming Jubilee! Oh, but friends, lean in a tad closer and hear Him announcing what I would call Jubilee on...]]></description>
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		<title>SUPER show on ATS LIVE today &#8211; 5:00 to 6:00 PM Central</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This may be the quickest post I ever write. I can type fast if you can read fast.   5,4,3,2,1&#8211; let&#8217;s go! DO make plans to join me on ATS LIVE this evening. My in studio guests are my friends Aubrey Greiser and John Rea, we&#8217;ll be talking about the Love Your Community initiative, complete with vision and verbs for your hometown! At the bottom of the hour, Jack Wisdom will call in to talk about his new book,Get Low.(Get this&#8211; he&#8217;s a lawyer writing about humility! Yeah, you&#8217;ll want to hear this!)  Yes&#8211; there will be giveaways! Yes&#8211; the streaming live link is here. Yes&#8211; we&#8217;ll be holding the talk show live chat on the All Things Southern Facebook wall! That&#8217;s it for now. See you this afternoon. (And she reminds herself to breathe&#8230;) Hugs, Shellie]]></description>
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		<title>Story Stacking on a Lazy Dazy Sunday</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 21:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The man is zeroed in on the Masters. I can see his blond head from here. I&#8217;m back porch writing in my new Swingasan. (LOVE this thing!) Just a little while ago Papa and Mama came by for a quick cup of coffee. While they were here our conversation turned to Mama&#8217;s parents, my beloved grandparents and their camp on the Old River. It didn&#8217;t take us long to stack up a ton of stories from those years, almost all of them revolving around Papaw&#8217;s shenanigans. Stick around. I&#8217;ll tell you more of those as time goes by. I suppose all that storytelling primed me but no sooner had they left and I&#8217;d settled back into my writing spot when a smell drifted up from the lake bank and took me away. I&#8217;m a little girl again at Papaw&#8217;s camp, sunburned and satisfied with a bellyful of fried catfish fresh from the River. My middle sister and I are snuggled three deep in a tiny bed at the back of the camp along with our favorite cousin, Lisa. Papaw&#8217;s camp is a hodgepodge of add-on spaces tacked around an original trailer and we&#8217;re bedded down in a far corner. I remember white all around me, the sheets, the walls, the ceilings. It feels like we&#8217;ve been tucked in the bottom of an old comfy sock. We&#8217;re supposed to be sleeping but it&#8217;s summer time and we&#8217;re at the camp and our parents are up late laughing and talking, telling their own stories and making new ones.  Bed times have relaxed along with everything else. By the time I come back to this porch the memories have had their way. I am decidedly mellow and that much more eager to get back to the manuscript at hand.  I hope you read it one day and on that day, I hope it takes you to a similar place of peace, comfort, and love. Happy Sunday to you all. Hugs, Shellie &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Just Doing a Little Light Reading</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 02:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesdays are bellerina days here at All Things Southern. The little belles and I get to play while their mother works and we all look forward to it. Right now, however, I&#8217;m under a little pressure to get the edits turned back into my editor for my latest manuscript. And that&#8217;s why, when my BFF offered to help tag-team babysit today to give me some extra hours at the laptop, I knew I needed to be a big girl and take her up on it. That&#8217;s the sort of thing forever friends will do for you. I&#8217;m reminded of the old quote, &#8220;New friends are silver, old friends are gold!&#8221; The deal was that I would have them in the morning, we would all grab lunch at Jehovah Java, and then Rhonda  (you may have heard me call her &#8220;G&#8221; or &#8220;Red&#8221;) would take them for the afternoon. The bellerinas were excited about going to G&#8217;s, but they were still curious about the developments. &#8220;What are you doing after lunch, Keggie?&#8221; Emerson asked. I knew the girls had heard about my work but it occurred to me that I&#8217;d never really talked to them about what I do and they were getting old enough to understand more. So, I pulled a couple of my books out, set them down, and reminded them about how Keggie writes books, like the ones I read to them, but for big people. We traced my name on the front with their fingers as I read it aloud to them. When I told them that Keggie was going to be working on the next book after lunch, they really seemed to get it, especially Emerson the big sister. Carlisle just grinned and giggled. Of course, when I suggested we take pictures with the books, they were both all in. The resulting image make me smile every single time I look at it so naturally, I had to share. I hope you&#8217;ll enjoy it, too!  Click to tweet]]></description>
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		<title>I See the Moon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most beautiful moon led me home last night. I knew my cell phone camera wouldn&#8217;t do it justice, but I had to try. I knew I&#8217;d want to share the moment with y&#8217;all. The moon was perfectly round and startling it it&#8217;s brilliance&#8211; and, bear with me here, but I felt it&#8217;s company. Am I not getting weirder all the time? Wait. Don&#8217;t answer that. I&#8217;m not saying the moon was speaking to me, but it&#8217;s Maker surely was and the bright shining presence of that full moon was acting like the most visible reminder that I wasn&#8217;t alone on the drive. Of course, I had to sing the moon song. I had to. I see the moon, the moon sees me. The moon sees the one I long to see. So, God bless the moon, and God bless me. And God bless the one I long to see. As I sang those lyrics and thought of how many years I&#8217;ve lifted that tune, I had a fall down on my face realization&#8211; only I didn&#8217;t because I was driving. I figured that was best. It hit me that for the first time ever I wasn&#8217;t thinking about a person when I sang the lyrics. Not my sweetheart who became my husband and remains my sweetie. Not my children who used to sing it with me word for word. No, I was thinking of the day I would see the One who spoke that orb into existence. Sometimes I still can&#8217;t believe what God has done with this heart.  I have not always loved Jesus. I don&#8217;t know if that was clear as I need it to be so let me try again. I have not always loved Jesus&#8211; not even when I was claiming Him as Savior. Soon, I&#8217;ll tell that story in the release of my next book and how He came to claim my heart. I&#8217;m working on the first round of edits right now. They&#8217;re due back to Random House shortly. The book will be released in 2014. If we could settle on a title, I&#8217;d be sharing it with you right now, but we haven&#8217;t, so I can&#8217;t. In the meantime, I&#8217;ll be praying that YOU to know this love, too. The knowledge of this Jesus is sweet, but the experience of His love far exceeds it. He lives. Hugs, Shellie &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Singer/Songwriter Jeremy Calloway and Writer/Director of Crossroad to visit ATS LIVE March, 25th!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 03:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know where else you plan to be tomorrow evening from 5:00 to 6:00 PM Central time, but if there is any way possible, I hope you&#8217;ll make plans to join me for another great hour of ATS LIVE! I&#8217;m so looking forward to this show. In around the fun and folly that is normal for this &#8220;anything but ordinary&#8221; radio show, I&#8217;ve got two guests lined up that I seriously want you to meet! We&#8217;ll be talking to dynamic singer/songwriter Jeremy Calloway and checking out his latest release! I&#8217;m excited about this exciting and powerful artist to ATS LIVE! Next up, we&#8217;ll meet Shervin Youssefian, the Writer and Director of Crossroad, n emotional and inspiring story of redemption, forgiveness and the ultimate realization of God&#8217;s grace at work in every life. I can&#8217;t begin to tell you how much my man and I enjoyed this movie, winner of 5 Dove Awards!  Here&#8217;s a link to watch the trailer: Will be there giveaways? Absolutely! Remember, you can find the ATS LIVE Listen Live link at the website and you can join the on air chat on the All Things Southern Facebook wall. Hope to see you on the air! Hugs, Shellie &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Not Without Purpose by Phil Sims</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 02:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phil Sims, a Vietnam veteran, served in the US Navy for seven years, five of them aboard the USS Midway CVA41. He&#8217;s a Boy Scout scoutmaster, a member of the Gideons International, and the author of Not Without Purpose. He and his wife, Alma, reside in West Monroe, Louisiana. They have three grown children and six grandchildren.  Not Without Purpose is set at the end of the conflict in Vietnam and twenty-eight year old Eric Sanderson has just returned home. The young marine is disillusioned, depressed, and haunted by what he&#8217;s experienced. In the space of a few days, circumstances will force him to rethink any remaining values he may have.  Meanwhile, a  teen&#8217;s obedience to God will be tested, and a small North Carolina mountain town will be brought to its knees in prayer. Sometimes things go very wrong, but never without God&#8217;s permission and never without purpose. Phil Sims has written a moving story of the power of a person&#8217;s choice to offer others an opportunity to experience the redemptive grace of Christ. If you like history, mystery, and faith, do check out Not Without Purpose. I&#8217;m not only pleased to congratulate Phil on the release of his debut novel, I&#8217;m honored to take this opportunity to thank him for his service to our country. Check it out at Amazon and get your copy today. Hugs, Shellie]]></description>
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		<title>Shoutout to the best readers/radio listeners out there!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I tell people all the time that I have the best readers and radio listeners out there, anywhere. I&#8217;m Elvis and his blue suede shoes serious! The All Things Southern community rocks. For illustration I give you a glimpse into my email box last night. I got in from a weekend retreat and was cleaning out the inbox when order #2291 came through for three of the new &#8220;Keep Calm and Bless Their Hearts&#8221; Southern Pearl T-Shirts.  Right after it I found a second order, #2292, with this message in the &#8220;special notes&#8221; section. Backstory before you see it&#8211; the orders were placed by a mother/daughter combo from Georgia I met last year when I did a conference at their church. Yes, I asked permission before clipping out this section of the order and posting it, and yes, I&#8217;ve laughed today every time I&#8217;ve thought of it, which is why I share it with you. With that, I give you the second order, lovingly placed by the daughter of the duo. &#160; &#160; &#160;  Are you laughing?]]></description>
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