Welcome to the Blog Blitz for The Mosaic Collection, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours! The author being spotlighted today is Eleanor Bertin. Find out more and enter the giveaway below...
The Mosaic Collection
Christian FictionHis Image Publications
Summary
For His glory...
The Mosaic Collection is an international community of women authors who use faith-based fiction to touch hearts with the good news that Christ's finished work on the cross has made us one family, and to nurture affection for the people God has placed within our circles of influence, so that the grace and glory of God may become visible and personal to everyone we meet.
...and our good
We are sisters, a beautiful mosaic united by the love of God through the blood of Christ. We have experienced the redemptive, restorative power of God's grace in our marriages and families, and we believe our God is able to heal, restore and redeem our brokenness. His love fills us with the courage to persevere, and to offer others a Christ-like compassion that is full of His wisdom and grace.
Visit the Mosaic Collection Website to stay posted on each new release & follow the collection blog for meaningful posts from the authors!
About the Author
In a fit of optimism at age eleven, Eleanor Bertin began her first novel by numbering a stack of 100 pages. Two of them got filled with words. Lifelines, her first completed novel, was published in 2016, followed by Pall of Silence in 2017, a memoir about her late son Paul.
She holds a college diploma in Communications and worked in agriculture journalism until the birth of her first child. The family eventually grew to include one daughter and six sons (the youngest with Down syndrome) whom she home-educated for 25 years.
Eleanor lives with her husband and youngest son, Timothy, amidst the ongoing renovation of a century home in central Alberta where she reads, writes, sweeps up construction rubble and blogs about a sometimes elusive contentment at jewelofcontentment.wordpress.com.
Cornerstone message from the collection:
Launch out into the far reaches of the universe. Delve deep into the intricate wonders of creation’s minutest particles. The farther humanity goes, the more awe I feel at the God whose power and genius spoke it all into existence. As a very young girl, I relished the delicious thrill of feeling tiny in the face of vast power, whether under a giant prairie sky, or failing in my count of the sparkling night stars. Like holding hands with a grizzly bear, God’s thundering bigness against my feeble smallness terrifies and quiets me.
That shivery awe fills the pages of the Bible, where God’s mighty power and fearsome holiness are vividly on display. There I read of a majestic King, both perfectly holy and utterly sovereign. That’s the terror part! He governs every detail of history, and every detail of my life.
But layered within that message is the constant harmony line of God’s pure goodness and the astonishing message of His never-ending love in the sacrificial death of His Son Jesus in my place.
“And from my smitten heart with tears
Two wonders I confess --
The wonders of His glorious love
And my unworthiness.”
(Elizabeth C. Clephane, Beneath the Cross of Jesus)
I’m flooded with joy knowing I belong to a trustworthy, loving God who forgives me and never leaves me!
Ten Favorite Things
Prompt: In no particular order, ten of your favorite things (i.e. hot cocoa, a warm breeze, the sound of my kids’ laughter, etc.):
Author: There are no warm breezes in Alberta. The first time I experienced such a thing was in 100degree heat in Texas. I was not amused.
- The swish of a tape measure
- The squeal of a power tool {These two reveal my eagerness to see our 16-year whole-house renovation completed!}
- All my grown sons kibbutzing together (they’re very witty!)
- A long conversation about Jesus and theology with whoever will indulge with me
- Listening to Handel’s Messiah
- Mowing our acreage, seasonally scented by lilacs, chokeberry blossoms, wolf willow, or alfalfa
- Reading to/chatting/snuggling with my 5 (soon to be 7) grandchildren
- Sewing (especially quilts)
- Flower gardening (Lilies! Roses! Delphiniums!)
- A deep discussion with my husband (or daughter, or sister, or mother, or friend)
Schedule
See tour landing page for a complete list of authors & book release dates.
Follow along at JustRead Tours for a full list of stops!
Blitz Giveaway
(1) winner will receive a $50 Amazon eGift Card & an ebook prize pack*!
- Where She Belongs
- Pieces of Granite
- Lifelines
- Christmas on a Mission
- Vigilant
- Other Side of the River
- The Third Grace
- Carolina Grace
- The Benefit Package (a devotional)
- Dance of Grace
- When Love Calls
Full tour schedule linked above. Giveaway will begin at midnight July 10, 2019 and last through 11:59 PM EST on July 24, 2019. Winner will be notified within 2 weeks of close of the giveaway and given 48 hours to respond or risk forfeiture of prize. Open internationally, but international winner will receive a gift card only *(may be substituted for a Book Depository gift card if winner cannot accept from US Amazon)
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