Hide and Watch by Jill Hicks Lawson book Review and book giveaway announcement

Most of us have had a point in our life when our struggles are almost more than we can bare. Some have even struggled through helping a loved one during an illness. Hide and Watch by Jill Hicks Lawson is the amazing story of one daughter’s journey as she not only deals with her own personal health and life struggles but tells of the struggles she endured helping her mother struggle through kidney disease.

This quick read will transport you into the life of author as she tells her testimony of her walk through her mother’s illness, her personal sacrifices, her health issues, and her own Christian strength. The story is written as if you were sitting down with the author to listen to her tell of the amazing journey she went through to get to the other side of an intensely difficult situation that spanned several years and many tears. You can feel her pain, her hope, her joy, her sorrow, and her faith. Mos of all you will walk away from this book with a feeling of hope and strength that you too can make it through anything with faith.

Amazon Product Description 
Have you noticed that it is easy to speak of God's faithfulness in times of prosperity, but that in times of suffering, such praise becomes lost?
In Hide and Watch, a true tale of sorrow and distress, of hope and triumph, Jill Hicks Lawson shares how she was spiritually transformed by overcoming her doubt in God during times of struggle. From enduring her battle with weight, her mother's kidney disease; to experiencing debilitating infertility and painful divorce; and eventually to becoming her mother's only hope for life, Lawson's personal accounts speak to the universal human experience of suffering, both physical and emotional, providing firsthand proof that, regardless of circumstance, God is in the business of giving hope.
By recounting moments of pain and progress, Lawson demonstrates that anguish is the only pathway to experiencing the dramatic joy and peace that result from God's intervention and healing, assuring those amid the battle that, in the end, what does not kill your faith makes it stronger.                                                      
 Now for some fun. I'm giving away a copy of this great book to share this great story. Here's how it will work.

  • Leave a comment below this post, the interview post, and/or the video posting in the next couple of days. For each comment you get an entry. 
  • Share the link with your favorite social network get another entry for each one. 
  • Share it on your own blog get another entry.
  • For any purchase you make in the Corner Store between now and February 24th you'll get five entries. Simply email a copy of your receipt through the Contact Cat link before February 25th
  • Follow this blog get an entry.
  • Finally, answer this question: What is the most inspirational book you've read? 
  • Share your links from above in your post below. 

I'll use Random.org to pick a winner on Friday, February 25th (My Birthday) and announce the winner on here. For everyone's privacy and protection don't include your email address in your comments. Instead, check back here on Friday, February 25th  and the winner will have 48 hours to contact me. After which time, if I don't hear from the first place winner in that time frame, I'll go down the line until someone claims their prize. 


**Just to clarify you can get points for each of the three days I post on Hide and Watch (review, interview, and video posting) so you can really rack up the points**


Thanks for playing along and good luck to everyone. 

31 Days in pictures: Day Thirty One Wrap Up Day

WE MADE IT!!!

Thanks for following along in my 31 day madness. I don't know about you but I learned a lot. About myself. About a few of my virtual friends. And about my photo collection that desperately needs organizing. But best of all, I had fun. 

For today I just wanted to do a wrap up so here's mine. 




This was my first attempt to make a video for this blog. I'm a little proud of myself. I had fun with this months little meme. I hope everyone who followed and especially those who joined in enjoyed it as much as I did. 
So now what can we get in to? mmm

31 Days in pictures: Day Thirty

Day 30 - A picture of someone you miss.

Ok this isnt a picture picture but I don't have a scanner and I realized I don't have a digital image of my Aunt Edith - my dad's sister, my  mom's best friend. Digital photography was only something from the Jetsons when she left us. My Aunt Edith was killed by a drunk driver 17 years ago. I miss her so much. She was a tiny woman full of life. I can still picture her with an Old Milwaukee's Best and a long Virginia Slim one in each hand. She had a hard life but seemed to be finding happiness when it was all taken away. I have forgiven the driver as much a my family my not understand but he too lost someone he cared deeply for. She was in his car when the accident happened. And yes they were both drinking. Forgiveness is what keeps me from falling apart inside. I miss her deeply and hate that she never got to meet her grandchildren but so happy I got to have her in my life. She forever made a mark on who I am. I love her so much and miss her even more. 

31 Days in pictures: Day Twenty-nine

Day 29 - A picture that can always make you smile. 
taken by Crisco
SUNSHINE!!!! Sunshine always makes me smile. This image was taken by my oldest son and makes me smile ten times over. We've had such a wonderful winter that I crave the feel of the sun on my skin. Oh how I miss it. Looking at this picture I can't help but smile as my mind remembers the sounds, feels, and smells of what it had to be like on this sunny day.

Side note: sorry this post was so late.I am a Bipolar. I and my entire family suffer from days when I can not clear the mess that is in my head. I've fought with it all week to keep it in check. Today was my reboot date only I didn't figure it out until about 4:30 today and slept for the past 5 hours. I can say that I'm rebooting back up in a positive way but it's always a battle. I'm so thankful for sunshine in the form of three amazing young men who accept me the way I am and parents who are so supporting. Mental illness or whatever you want to call effects more than just those of us stuck in it. I appreciate that those in my life who have chosen to stick by me do so with so much love, understanding, and encouragement. If I could put that in a picture, that would be my smile picture for the day. 

31 Days in pictures: Day Twenty-eight

Day 28 - A picture of something you're afraid of. 

There's many things in this life that I'm afraid of but I'm going with this one. Clowns. I don't trust them. I don't like them. Never have. Never will. I know they are suppose to put a smile on our faces but I not me...especially the one in the bottom left hand corner of this picture. Burr! Gives me the willies. Now I'm not a complete Coulrophobia but I can go without having to deal with them. The only clowns I can handle are Ronald McDonald and Bozo. Not sure why but neither of them intimidate me and I'm go to go. As for the rest of you clowns, please keep away.  Thank you!



31 Days in pictures: Day Twenty-seven

Day 27 - A picture of yourself and a family member


This is Crisco and I about 21 years ago. He turned 21 this past Sunday. He's an amazing young man who has come through so many things. He's been braver than I could even begin to hope to be. He's made me who I am today by being who he is today. 
He'll never know how proud I am of him and how proud I am of who he's made me.

31 Days in pictures - Day Twenty-six

Day 26 - A picture of something that means a lot 
to you.

My family 
My family is the one thing that means the world to me. Other than my brother, who calls but doesn't visit, this my entire family. It's small but we have big hearts and a lot of love. My Grandmother, Mom, and I are the last females on my maternal side and I am so thankful I have both of them with me everyday.