FREE Subscription - Hope for Women magazine (one-week only)

Sunday, September 17, 2006

As a contributing writer for the national Hope For Women magazine, I am passing along to you a letter I was emailed today from the publisher, Angelia L. White, announcing a one-week special opportunity to sign up for a FREE subscription. A savings of $14.95 year subscription and significant discount from newsstand price.


Please read my article in the Sept/Oct issue entitled, Empowered by Faith.

I do hope you will take advantage of this generous offer, your friend, Stanice Anderson (In your email include the promo # and let them know that you are a friend of Stanice Anderson)


Letter from Angelia L. White, Publisher, Hope For Women

Greetings,

It’s been five years since the world witnessed the attacks on the World Trade Center and our nation’s Capital that took place on September 11, 2001. On that date, we all watched the television, whether at home or work, with silence, dismay, and a sense of bewilderment. One central thought seemed to be on the minds of most Americans: “Could this really be happening?”

Many people painfully learned that day just how vulnerable we are without God’s protection. We have since learned that we must actively seek God’s love, guidance, and protection everyday--without taking any of our many liberties for granted. People every where are needing hope, now more than ever.

To honor the memories of those lost in the World Trade Center, Pentagon and United Airlines Flight 93, Hope for Women magazine is offering a one-week special for the first 911 individuals (responders) who email us at, Promo0911@hopeforwomenmag.org and sign up for a subscription. We would like to offer the first 911 responders a one-year free subscription. Please include your name, address and email address and don’t forget to mention the Promotional code PROM0911

Get your Hope for Women magazine subscription today!

You may mail us also at:

Hope for Women magazine
Attn: Promo0911
PO Box 3241
Muncie, Indiana 47307

Be Blessed
Angelia L. White, Publisher
www.hopeforwomenmag.org

Flashback 2001: 910 + 911 = Emotional Rape

Hello Chosen One:
These are the unaltered entries that I made in my journal before I cried myself to sleep on the nights of September 10th and 11th 2001.

September 10, 2001 My husband left me tonight...but life goes on...God being my helper. I will not be defeated!! I will not worry...for it changes nothing...My God promises that He will supply all my needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus. I will stand on that Word. Yes, I cry for what is lost. I cry...but only when I focus on my situation without factoring God into my situation. But with God, I know that all things are possible! Because Jesus is alive and real...I know the end of this story...I WIN!!!!!
posted by Stanice Anderson at 11:20 PM September 10, 2001



September 11, 2001 The scene is so horrific, surreal, and apocalyptic. The World Trade Center Towers, the pentagon...airplanes crashed into these buildings. Towers actually collapsed! untold number of people dead, maimed, missing, in hospitals, trapped...there is chaos in America...satan is celebrating as is his job to manipulate us to seek, kill, steal, and destroy each other. My God, come soon Lord Jesus....mankind is not doing well on it's own at all. Reports of mothers and fathers killing their children...signaled to me the beginning of the end to life as we once knew it...i knew it had to get worse. And today...it has... All that has happened today...makes my concerns seem scrawny and trivial. So my husband left me last night...I sit here typing---updating my website in the comfort of my home. Many, because of the events of this day, will never come home again. I mourn not for the seeming death of my marriage, but with my nation...my people...the hopes, dreams, lives lost. And I cry with those who love them whose lives will be forever changed because of the events of this day. God strengthen, hold in the palm of Your hands, those that will be unable to sleep tonight, those who are crying out to you for mercy and to bring their loved ones home. Please give us what we need at the exact moment that the need arises...the things that we need that we cannot give to ourselves like peace in the midst of the turmoil, your perspective, courage, and fearlessness. For you have not given us a spirit of fear but of power, love and a sound mind. And, God thank you that you will render justice on behalf of your people.
posted by Stanice Anderson at 1:10 PM September 11, 2001

(c) 2001, Stanice Anderson www.stanice.com

Website Award Finalist - please vote for my site

I found out yesterday that...



My website, Stanice.com, is among the 7 finalists competing
for the 2007 Black Web Award for "Best Author Site"

Click here to cast your vote for Stanice.com.
(Knowledge & Education category, Best Author Site)

Thank you!

A quick way to say Thanks to a Soldier

Let's Say Thanks


If you go to this website, www.letssaythanks.com, you can pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq.

You can't pick out who gets it, but it will go to some member of the armed services.

It is FREE and it only takes a second.

Our men and women over there need to know we are behind them.

Stanice on FAQQLY

Visit my page, FAQQLY - Stanice's FAQ and ask me a question. It's a new online community. Check it out. On my page, you will also notice that I set up 2 groups: Writers for Jesus and 12-Steppers for Jesus. Feel free to join. All free of course.

Have I tasted God's love? Oh yes! I devour His Love in THE WORD . The Bible reminds me just how high and wide and deep and UNCONDITIONAL the love of God is. God Is. And I am because of Him. Have I tasted? So sweetly when He delivered me from a 15-year addiction to heroin and deposited me into a new life…in Him. I tasted Him when He removed my desire for cigarettes and after smoking since 15 years old—I’ve been free from nicotine for 5 glorious years. Thank you—your question reminded me of the scripture “Taste and see that the Lord He is good” He is truly good!

Empowered by Faith (article by Stanice Anderson)

Look for Stanice's article, Empowered by Faith, in the Sept/Oct issue of
Hope for Women Magazine.
Order your subscription today. Only $14.95 for one year.

Also check out promotion issue (July/Aug. cover below)which featured another Stanice article entitled, The Hour I First Believed


Mark your calendar--Stanice has a booth reserved at the 2nd Annual Capital BookFest '06 presented by The Washington Post (co-produced by Carla A. Nelson and Kwame Alexander) on Saturday, October 7, 2006, from 10 am to 7 pm at BLVD at the Cap Centre in Largo, MD.

This one day multi-cultural book festival will feature author readings, panels, writing and publishing workshops, poetry performances, live music, children's storytelling, and exhibitors from the Washington Metropolitan area, celebrating the literary arts and promoting literacy in Prince Georges County, Maryland.

In addition to Stanice signing her book, I Say A Prayer For Me: One Woman's Life of Faith and Triumph, you will be able to sign up for subscriptions (for yourself and to give as gifts) to Hope For Women Magazine. She will also have on hand copies of Sept/Oct issue for sale and FREE copies of the promotional July/August issue (while they last).

An article in Gannett newspaper - Muncie woman to launch Christian-based magazine for women | The Star Press - www.thestarpress.com - Muncie, IN

Lord, Search My Heart

Photographer: Maya Gilliam
I have a Feast on THE WORD Gathering at my home once a month. Well, at the one two weeks ago...my son had a special request. He asked the ladies, "Before leaving could you pray for my mom about finishing a writing project. She's really having major problems." Well, right there at the door my six sisters in Christ and my son, laid hands on me and asked God to get my creative juices a'flowin'.

The resulting testimony? Talk about getting real...

Days prior, through prayer and talking with my pastor, the Holy Spirit revealed that I had not truly forgiven my mother. In addition to confirmation, my son's request and the subsequent laying on of hands shed light on the connection to my unforgiving spirit and the blockage in my writing. I needed to deal with that FIRST--forgive once for all.

I made a conscious decision to forgive my mother and once i did that (God brought an opportunity that I seized. This past Sunday, my granddaughter and I went to see my mom with her favorite food--cooked Maryland crabs in tow. From the moment my mom greeted us at the door I noticed that all twinges of resentment and uneasy feelings that I alway felt in her presence...WERE GONE. we had a blessed time together.

After that visit, the writing and a whole lot more broke loose and began to flow!!! flow and flow.

At 4:00 a.m. this morning, (7/20) I clicked "send" on and email to my agent with the "Introduction" attached for what I hope will be my next book. She asked me to write it and send it to her in March. Try as I did...it was not happening. I felt like Jacob must have felt wrestling with God and I was loosing--until I obeyed and forgave. I'm shouting my granddaughter, Michal's favorite praise, Halleleujah! Thank you, Jesus!!!!

© 2006, Stanice Anderson, www.stanice.com
Also check out my blog, Stanice's Open Mic, which features YOUR testimonies and talents.

Inspiration Cometh...Soon Lord?

Recently, the founder of a national book club* asked, "What inspires you to write?"

My answer?

Gratitude and my fervent desire to fully use my gifts and talents so that God gets as much glory as possible out of this life that He so graciously spared—compels me to write. For me, compelled begets inspiration. While procrastination is one of my weaknesses, discernment and faith are two of my strengths. Thus, when the pain of not writing becomes greater than the pain and toil I often find within the act of writing—then, I write. Writing is my cross and reward.

What is it that you love to do and what inspires you to do it?

Your answer?

Post your answers here under "comments." And/Or e-mail them to me, Stanice Anderson, at stanice@stanice.comand I will post them on my blog, Stanice's Open Mic, which features YOUR talents and testimonies. Submissions should be no more than 100 words. (My answer above is 85 words.)

Also email this to others...so we might have the blessing of their input. Click the envelop below by comments icon. All submissions should be posted and/or emailed before July's end so that I can post the first week in August. I can include a link to your website or web page, if you add my link to yours (at least for the month of August). I enjoy 17,000+ visits to my site and blogs per month.

© 2006, Stanice Anderson, www.stanice.com
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*Also Visit The Sistah Circle Book Club . They've really been good to me.

The now-Late Kenneth Lay

When first I saw the headline in the NY Times this morning:

Ex-Chairman of Enron Dies
"Kenneth L. Lay died of a heart attack, early reports said. He faced a long prison term for ten counts of fraud and conspiracy..."

I thought, "Wow, he got away!"

But my second and most peaceful thought was:

"No, now like the Hebrew National Hot Dog commercial says, 'We have to answer to a higher authority.' And so does, the late-Lay."

WORD...

"Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment..." Hebrews 9:27 (NIV)

"For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil." Ecclesiastes 12:14 (NIV)

So it is...so shall it ever be.

THE TESTIMONY

THE TESTIMONY (a 4-min. video) is my Soul Shout offering today. I pray that God continues to use my testimony to get as much glory as possible out of this life that He so graciously spared.

This is the Word that undergirds the writing and speaking ministry entrusted to me:

“They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony…” Revelation 12:11 (NIV)

“For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11-14

God is blessing us, right now! He's already assigned people to read, see, and hear this multimedia message of hope. Should you feel led, please pass it on.

A loving thank you to the New Life Bible Church Family in Fayetteville, NC for hosting me and providing the video of which THE TESTIMONY is an excerpted clip.

If you're unable to access the video using the link above, copy and paste the link below onto your browser:
http://www.stanice.com/video/THE.TESTIMONY.stanice.anderson1.wmv

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