{"id":147,"date":"2009-04-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/?p=147"},"modified":"2009-04-14T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T12:00:00","slug":"linda-goodnight-honors-her-mother-in-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/uncategorized\/linda-goodnight-honors-her-mother-in-law","title":{"rendered":"Linda Goodnight Honors Her Mother in Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_n-AHFKBV0rY\/SeO_K42oRoI\/AAAAAAAAAMw\/GW7MLG0NAQc\/s1600-h\/Linda+Goodnight.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer; width: 139px; height: 166px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_n-AHFKBV0rY\/SeO_K42oRoI\/AAAAAAAAAMw\/GW7MLG0NAQc\/s320\/Linda+Goodnight.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324309378263172738\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">Today my guest is another Love Inspired author Linda Goodnight, a RITA award-winning author (I sat beside her last year when she won it and heard her scream.) Linda pays tribute to her mother in law. Here&#8217;s Linda:<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">&#8220;I\u2019ve had so many strong women  in my life-Women who influenced, encouraged and just plain blessed me.  Since my current book is Mothers and Daughters I thought  I\u2019d talk about a mom. Not my own mom, but my mother-in-law, Lorene. By the world\u2019s standards, Lorene  was not a particularly successful woman. She was poorly educated, having  gone only to about the 5th or 6th grade. Most  of her life, she worked as an aide in nursing homes\u2014and did it with  great love and caring, I might add. She suffered many hardships from  being abandoned by her father to living in a dirt-floor tent to losing  a child. And yet this woman was a fortress  of quiet, uncomplaining strength.<\/p>\n<p>A gentle, Christ-like nature just  flowed out of her. Material possessions meant little, but people meant  everything. No matter their issues, their mistakes, their illness or  how \u2018unlovely\u2019 they might be, Lorene accepted them, prayed for them  and tried to help them. Even when someone wronged her, Lorene never  reacted in anger. Never. It\u2019s hard to believe, but it\u2019s true.  I loved her, and thank God that  I was blessed to be her daughter-in-law. So it is not surprising that I  dedicated my Mother\u2019s Day anthology to Lorene.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_n-AHFKBV0rY\/SeO-wRA1spI\/AAAAAAAAAMg\/HwBDVFlaj-8\/s1600-h\/Linda+Goodnight+cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_n-AHFKBV0rY\/SeO-wRA1spI\/AAAAAAAAAMg\/HwBDVFlaj-8\/s320\/Linda+Goodnight+cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324308920891978386\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\"><br \/>Mothers and Daughters  includes two novellas. One is by bestselling author, Deborah Bedford,  a beautiful story, by the way. My contribution, \u201cUnforgettable,\u201d  tells of two strong women, though the daughter does not recognize her  own strength until the flamboyant, sometimes embarrassingly outrageous  mother, Granny Frannie, is faced with an uncertain and frightening future. I hope you\u2019ll pick up a copy  of Mothers and Daughters and let me know what you think. It\u2019s  a perfect Mothers\u2019 Day gift, too!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today my guest is another Love Inspired author Linda Goodnight, a RITA award-winning author (I sat beside her last year when she won it and heard her scream.) Linda pays tribute to her mother in law. 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