{"id":114,"date":"2009-01-27T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/?p=114"},"modified":"2009-01-27T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T13:00:00","slug":"my-friend-irene-brand-her-heroine-and-her-own-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/uncategorized\/my-friend-irene-brand-her-heroine-and-her-own-strength","title":{"rendered":"My friend Irene Brand&#8211;Her Heroine and Her Own Strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_n-AHFKBV0rY\/SXUAXsuLrII\/AAAAAAAAADo\/YoMvFk7iEhI\/s1600-h\/Love+Finds+You_Valentine_HR.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 208px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_n-AHFKBV0rY\/SXUAXsuLrII\/AAAAAAAAADo\/YoMvFk7iEhI\/s320\/Love+Finds+You_Valentine_HR.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293137344185740418\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Today Irene Brand, one of my dear writing friends, is my guest. She has a new book and a life story to share with you.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Irene:<\/p>\n<div  style=\"margin: 1ex;font-family:times new roman;\">\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">Kennedy Blaine, heroine of <u>Love Find  You in VALENTINE, Nebraska<\/u>, is a strong woman. Life\u2019s circumstances  gave her no choice.  An only child, at Kennedy twenty-six,  loses both of her parents. She is alienated from her other relatives  because of an age-old feud between her maternal and paternal families.  Added to this, Kennedy inherits a multi-million dollar fortune.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">      <\/span><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">While  most might think that this inheritance would be a boon to a successful  and happy future, for Kennedy that wasn\u2019t the case.  Her inheritance  includes the Circle Cross, a family ranch in the Sandhills of Nebraska.  In the process of settling her father\u2019s estate, Kennedy travels to  Nebraska. There she encounters situations that call into use the strength  and determination she\u2019s inherited from her forbears.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">      <\/span><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">Although  Kennedy didn\u2019t suspect that she had an enemy in the world, suddenly  she becomes the victim of harassment. Is it designed to scare her away from  the Circle Cross or does it have another more dangerous purpose? And most distressful of all, for the first time in her life, Kennedy is tempted to give her heart away \u2013 to Derek Sterling, the manager of the Circle  Cross. And Derek has no intention of marrying  anyone. Only her strength sustains  Kennedy when at last she finds something that money can\u2019t buy.<br \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">Kennedy is one in a long list of my  heroines, all of whom have displayed notable strength. I couldn\u2019t  write about a heroine who wasn\u2019t strong, and I attribute this to the  fact that I consider myself a strong woman. Perhaps there\u2019s a difference  in being <i>strong<\/i> and <i>strong-willed<\/i>, but in my life I\u2019ve  dared to do many things that took strength. I take no personal credit  because, in my own right, I\u2019m a very weak person. However, all of  my life I\u2019ve been sustained by the strong hand of God. In many endeavors,  He\u2019s given me the strength to take the first step and has walked with  me every step of the way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">      <\/span><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">I  grew up on a farm in rural West Virginia. My education started in a  one-room school when I was four-years-old. Due to double-promotion,  at the age of fifteen, I graduated from high school, the first of my  family to do so. That isn\u2019t as easy as it sounds.  We lived sixteen  miles from the nearest high school, and the closest bus route was almost  three miles from our home. We didn\u2019t have an automobile. During my  four years, I walked each day to the bus route. During the winter months,  I left home before daylight and didn\u2019t get home until after dark.  Still, I had a high attendance record. I didn\u2019t graduate with high  honors, but after my ninth-grade-year, I was on the Honor Roll all of  the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">      <\/span><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">Because  of monetary issues, my age and a fifty-mile-distance from a college,  higher education wasn\u2019t an option.  I found a job soon after  I was sixteen, eventually married, and after being out of high school  for several years, I started to college.  This also took strength.   We still lived fifty miles from a college or university, and we had  only one car. I drove back and forth to college alone. But with sacrifices  from both my husband and me, I graduated 4 \u00bd years later with a Bachelor\u2019s  Degree in Education, (French and Social Studies), holding a 3.82 GPA.  I started teaching and taught for 23 years at a local Junior High School.  Going to school during the summer, I was awarded my Master\u2019s Degree  in History 4 years later with a 4.00 GPA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">      <\/span><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">During  this time, I had never forgotten my childhood call to become a writer.   After I earned my MA degree in 1970 I told myself, \u201cYou are now a  writer.\u201d  I started writing, submitting manuscripts and attending  writers\u2019 conference, but my first books weren\u2019t published until  1984.  Only the strength provided by God kept my dream alive during  those disappointing years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">      <\/span><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">From  the time I became a Christian until now, I\u2019ve always considered that  God had priority on my life, and I\u2019ve attempted to put His work first.   I\u2019m still active in our local Baptist church, where I became a member  when I was eleven-years-old and was teaching a class of my peers by  the time I was fifteen.  I\u2019ve taught in our church since that  time. To list the things I\u2019m doing\/have done through the local fellowship  of Believers would take the glory away from God and focus on me, so  sufficient to say that I\u2019m still actively serving in the church.<br \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">As for affinity with a strong biblical  character, I\u2019ve always considered myself a \u201cMartha.\u201d  She  was a \u201cdoer,\u201d and so am I.  She was strong enough to carry  the burdens of her family, which I have done.  However, there are  characteristics of Martha that I don\u2019t admire, and I often like to  think that I\u2019m a mixture of Martha and Priscilla. Although we don\u2019t  find much in the Bible about Priscilla helping to establish the early  church, there is enough information to indicate that she was a strong  and brave woman. This is exemplified in her many journeys throughout  the Roman Empire with her husband, Aquila, as they supported the Apostle  Paul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">      <\/span><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">Priscilla  was a friend and encourager, which I try to be. In her book, <u>Women  of the Bible<\/u>, Frances Vander Velde wrote, \u201cPriscilla\u2019s home  was devout and peaceful, a place to which Christians gladly came and  where they shared great spiritual experiences. Priscilla was no half-way  or part time Christian. She was consistently energetic and loyal in  the work of the Lord all her life long.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">      <\/span><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">God  leading, I pray those words will someday be my epitaph.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">Many thanks, Irene! To find out more about Irene&#8217;s latest book, LOVE FINDS YOU IN VALENTINE, NEBRASKA, drop by her website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irenebrand.com\/\">http:\/\/www.IreneBrand.com<\/a> and view her book trailer. You can also buy the book from her site. Thanks again, Irene, for telling us so candidly of how you faced life&#8217;s challenges and achieved your dreams with God&#8217;s help.<\/span>   <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Irene Brand, one of my dear writing friends, is my guest. She has a new book and a life story to share with you. 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