by Laura Elizabeth Salas | Jan 3, 2025 | Bible Study
What are your goals for 2025? And most importantly, on what values do you base your goals? As I wrote the original note, which was for my newsletter, I was sitting in my parent’s living room enjoying the laughter and games of my nephews and nieces and the jokes of my...
by Laura Elizabeth Salas | Dec 17, 2024 | Book Review
With Thanksgiving and Christmas preparations, November and December have been incredibly busy. But that doesn’t mean I abandoned reading and writing. On the contrary! Not only have I been revising my debut novel, I’ve also enjoyed a few holiday books. If you like...
by Laura Elizabeth Salas | Oct 1, 2024 | Book Review
Second chance romance ✔️ Small town ✔️ Spiritual growth arc ✔️ Hallmark feel ✔️ I received a free copy of this wonderful novel because I was part of the launch team to help promote its release. From beginning to end, the story engaged me. The plot and characters made...
by Laura Elizabeth Salas | Mar 9, 2024 | Book Review
Book Review: Leave the Lights On by Christy Barritt (Christian mystery and suspense) A disbarred lawyer in the quest to bring down those responsible for her fallout and a former Army CID agent searching for his missing fiancé join forces to stop a serial killer....
by Laura Elizabeth Salas | Aug 31, 2023 | Hope
“Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” (John 14:27 NKJV) When peace, like a river, attendeth my way, When sorrows like...
by Laura Elizabeth Salas | Jun 14, 2023 | Book Review
I recently had the opportunity to join Lori DeJong’s “Love’s True Calling” launch team. I met Lori a little over a year ago when we were both part of the same small critique group. Even back then, when Lori shared a few pages of her manuscript with me, her novel...
by Laura Elizabeth Salas | Mar 14, 2023 | Prayer
Morning, noon, and night I cry out in my distress, and the LORD hears my voice. Psalm 55:17 (NLT) You set up your alarm to wake up before dawn. With the house in silence, you mix the right amount of water and beans to make a cup of coffee, then add the milk of...
by Laura Elizabeth Salas | Apr 18, 2022 | Book Review
South Beach Love: A feel-good romance from Hallmark Publishing by Caridad PiñeiroMy rating: 5 of 5 starsHallmark fans, like me, enjoy sweet romance. This time, I also chose this book because of the blurb. Cuban food? Competition among chefs? South Beach living? Love...
by Laura Elizabeth Salas | Feb 25, 2022 | love
What is love? Many times, when we hear the word “love”, we think of perfectly plump red hearts. And during the weeks leading to Valentine’s Day, we associate love with red roses, chocolate-covered strawberries… perhaps a fancy dinner somewhere. Children...
by Laura Elizabeth Salas | Nov 7, 2021 | Hope
A Tribute to My Aunt Omaira Three weeks ago, my family and I said a final goodbye to my dad’s oldest sister, aunt Omaira, who left us after having been on this earth for seventy-four years. One of my earliest memories about her is when I noticed she was missing...
