Yay me! Yesterday I learned that I am one of seven authors to receive a prestigious KIMBER AWARD! Don’t know what that is? Check out the announcement on Pages & Paws where Kimber and Mom write my favorite book blogs. They reviewed my book last year and I’ve been following their work ever since. You may want to subscribe and follow also.

I appreciate the acknowledgement. It’s a special treat to get a shout out for the thoughts and feelings I put on paper as I go through my daily life. It’s validation – and that’s a word that’s been on my mind the last few weeks. Validation. I think it’s something we all want. We want to be visible, to know that we matter, to feel like our presence makes a difference in this world. We want to know that we are of value and that we bring something to the world.

I pray that you get a good dose of validation, too, as we come into the 2022 homestretch. That you will know that you are valued and you do matter. You have something special to give to the world, something worthy of an award, something you may not even yet know you have! So to you I say, “Yay you!”