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Rose Allen McCauley: A Precious Gift & Book Giveaway

8/28/2011

 

This week we welcome Rose Allen McCauley to Author Memories. 

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Rose Allen McCauley is happy to live in the beautiful bluegrass region of Kentucky on a farm surrounded by God’s creation. She has been writing for over ten years and has been published in several non-fiction anthologies and devotionals. She is thrilled for this to be her first published fiction because Christmas books are her favorites.

A retired schoolteacher who has been happily married to her college sweetheart for over 43 years, she is also mother to three grown children and their spouses and Mimi to three lovely, lively grandkids!


A Precious Gift
by Rose Allen McCauley

As the oldest of seven children with an alcoholic father, my siblings and I had very few worldly possessions. Much of what we did have was given to us by church members or our grandparents. Since there were so many of us and so few possessions, after our parents died we divided up mainly small mementoes. Each of us daughters received one of my mom’s butterfly pins and got to choose the pictures that were special to us. I was surprised and pleased when my younger sisters decided that as the oldest I should have the family Bible.

This Bible is falling apart, held together with love and tape. The cover is black with faded gold embossing of a design and this verse on the front cover: “The Law of the Lord is perfect; the Precepts of the Lord are right; the Testimony of the Lord is sure; the Commandment of the Lord is pure.” There are gold index markers with the names of the books of the Bible on them running up and down the sides of the pages, so as I look through it, I place my thumbs on the same worn tabs my grandmother and mother’s thumbs used to guide them through God’s Word.
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My grandmother had bought this Bible from a traveling salesman in 1952 when I was only three years old. The Bible bears my grandmother’s and my mother’s handwriting of births and deaths and marriages and other milestones in our family. It is also the only record I have of my great-grandparents’ names. I can remember as a young girl reading Grandma’s Bible when I would visit her, and especially enjoying the bluish colored pictures telling the life of Jesus and a section with colored pictures of the Holy Land. This Bible also bears several passages underlined by my mother that encouraged her.

To someone else this Bible might not look like much. It might even be thrown away or put out of sight. But in my home, this Bible is placed on a bookshelf with pictures of my mother and other family members around it. It is tenderly handled with love for those who went before and our Lord Who had guided us down through the generations as our Heavenly Shepherd.
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Leave a comment with a valid email address by midnight, Sep 4th
if you want to be entered to win a copy of Rose's  book,
Christmas Belles of Georgia.
Name will also go in the draw for the
Welcome Prize Giveaway.
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Christmas Belles of Georgia, Barbour Books
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back cover blurb:

Surprised by Life—and Love—at Christmas

Four letters are mailed from Monticello, a small antebellum town in Georgia. Sisters once, now heirs to a historic plantation, each young woman must come to terms with the circumstances of her birth. . . .

When she learns in a letter she’s adopted, Holly feels betrayed by her parents—and she books a flight out of Missouri immediately. Will she ever be able to love again?

Raised in a wealthy, loveless home, Carol rushes to Monticello from college in Atlanta when she receives her letter. She’s searching for family, but finds instead a boy she once mistreated. Will he remember her? . . .forgive her?

In one year, Starr has lost her parents, boyfriend, and job, so she’s sure her letter is more bad news. When the attorney flies to California to offer proof, Starr takes a second look—at the message and the man.

Noelle always knew she was adopted—and she’s always loved the foreman on her father’s Texas ranch too. But he’s so distant. . .perhaps a trip to Georgia is the break in life she needs.

Will the sisters receive a traditional Christmas gift. . .of love?

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You can reach Rose through her
website at  
www.rosemccauley.com or
blogsite at
www.rosemccauley.blogspot.com

Debra Ullrick link
8/28/2011 06:53:58 am

What a beautiful story, Rose. I have my grandmother's German Bible and I treasure it too.

Don't enter me in the drawing, I'm one of the authors in Christmas Belles of Georgia.

Debra Ullrick

DeAnna Julie Dodson link
8/28/2011 07:02:22 am

That's a lovely story. One of my very favorite memories is when we spent the summers at my grandmother's, and she would read to us from the Bible every night.

I wish I had one of her Bibles. :)

Anita Mae
8/28/2011 07:46:15 am

Thanks for sharing on Author Memories, Rose. I don't have a Bible that's been handed down to me, but I started a new one when I married and it will be passed on to someday.

rose link
8/28/2011 09:29:48 am

Thanks for hosting me Anita. Glad you will pass on a Bible someday.

And thanks to Deb and DeAnna for taking time to stop by and comment.

Carole Brown link
8/29/2011 04:21:10 am

This book sounds great; I love Christmas stories too! And I positively adore most stories about family life. Such interesting facts! :)

Thanks for sharing.
browncarole212(at)yahoo(dot)com

debH
8/29/2011 05:44:45 am

thanks for sharing with Anita about your special memories about your family Bible. I can understand how special it would be. All that family history along with the memories of reading it as a child is pretty neat.

I love the blurbs about your book. As an adoptee, I'm very interested in reading it. I'll have to put that on my list to buy for reading.

thanks again for sharing.

debH
8/31/2011 06:42:28 am

oops, fogot to leave a valid email addy. the book sounds great.

nm8r67 at hotmail dot com

Lorraine Nelson link
8/31/2011 10:51:32 pm

Hi, Anita Mae! Thanks for introducing Rose.

My aunt, mom's oldest sister, has Grammy's Bible. Grammy read it to her kids (13 of them) every night. Hoping it comes to me some day.

I also love Christmas stories. They are so filled with faith and love, it's a joy to read them. This book sounds wonderful, Rose. Please enter me in your giveaway.
lornel AT xplornet DOT ca

MaryAnn Diorio link
9/4/2011 02:22:48 am

How exciting to see this news about the release of your book, dear Rose! May our Lord prosper this work of your hands and of your heart, for His glory and for the building of His Kingdom!

Blessings,

MaryAnn

caralynnjames link
9/4/2011 02:45:23 am

What a nice story! I had a family Bible too. The first date in it is 1851. The dates of the births and deaths gave me insight into the difficult lives they had and the prevalence of childhood deaths.

Congratulations on your debut book, Rose!

Anita Mae
9/5/2011 10:08:17 am

Okay, I've drawn a winner (with the help of random.org) from all those comments leaving a valid email address and the winner of Rose's book,
Christmas Belles of Georgia is:

Lorraine Nelson

Congrats, Lorraine! Rose will be in contact with you about the book.

Thanks for stopping by everyone and come back soon.


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