Jodi's Journey

Awesome Book Giveaway Of 'The Widow Of Saunders Creek' By Tracey Bateman

I am going to do something a little bit different on my blog. I am going to host a book giveaway. This is an awesome book I posted my review of this book here. This is the type of book you can't put down. Please enter below, the more points you get the better chance you have of winning! I would like to give something back to my readers (friends), a way of saying thank you for being faithful, folowers, readers, and my wonderful blogosphere friends, that I am so thankful to each one of you for many different reasons. Good luck!

Overview: A grief that knows no boundary. A love without any limit. A need that doesn’t end at death.

Corrie Saunders grew up in a life of privilege. But she gave it all up for Jarrod, her Army husband, a man she knew was a hero when she vowed to spend her life with him. She just didn’t expect her hero to sacrifice his life taking on an Iraqi suicide bomber.

Six months after Jarrod’s death, Corrie retreats to the family home her husband inherited deep in the Missouri Ozarks. She doesn’t know how to live without Jarrod—she doesn’t want to. By moving to Saunders Creek and living in a house beloved by him, she hopes that somehow her Jarrod will come back to her.

Something about the house suggests maybe he has. Corrie begins to wonder if she can feel Jarrod’s presence.

Jarrod’s cousin Eli is helping Corrie with the house’s restoration and he knows that his dead cousin is not what Corrie senses. Eli, as a believing man and at odds with his mystically-oriented family members, thinks friendly visits from beyond are hogwash. But he takes spirits with dark intentions seriously. Can he convince Corrie that letting go of Jarrod will lead to finding her footing again— and to the One she can truly put her faith into?

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Feb 23, 2012

Michael Vick The SICK Dog Fighting PIG - I Don't Believe He Has Stopped His Dog Fighting Ring - PLEASE DON'T FORGET AMERICA!

Little Red, a pit bull seized last year from football star Michael Vick's estate, rests near staff member Ed Fritz at the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Utah. Vick served a 23-month prison sentence for his role in an illegal dog-fighting ring on his property in Virginia.

Out of 51 dogs rescued from the operation, 22 now live at the no-kill animal shelter, where many could need lifetime care, experts say.

LUCAS

One of Vick's champions, he is under court order to spend the rest of his life in a sanctuary. Sick from time to time with babesia, a blood-borne parasite common in fighting dogs, Lucas is in Canine Good Citizen training and has even had a girlfriend, a female pit bull who would lick his face through the fence. I cal what he done to Lucas EVIL!

Bonita

Bonita, died in 2008

Bonita liked to sit in any warm lap she could find, and her sideways grin was probably, and heartbreakingly, from nerve damage. She suffered from babesia, a blood-borne parasite common in fighting dogs, and her scars and broken, worn-down teeth--and the way she ran away from other dogs--led her handlers to wonder if she had been a bait dog. In February 2008, she went for dental surgery and never woke up from the anesthesia. She's buried at the Best Friends cemetery.

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Something bothers me and will always bother me until I am no longer on this earth, and that is the lousy punishment Michael Vick's got for running a dog fighting multi-million dollar ring. But yet the punishment the animals endured was way beyond what this punk got for getting caught! His speech is just to make himself look good, but can that kind EVIL go away? I say NO!

I don't like this guy and I know as a Christian I am supposed to forgive in order to be forgiven, and I struggle with this every day. I don't like the idea that some people have forgotten what he has done to dozens of animals and the lives of animals he took, and why? MONEY! He is a sick pig!

I am sorry, I know many of you don't know this side of me but when I had my animal blog, many of my followers knew this side of me because I am an ANIMAL ACTIVIST and MICHAEL VICK is still on my top PIG list! This guy had dogs tied to a bar (called bait dogs) so other dogs could go after it, HE IS SICK, and this kind of evil never goes away people, if it does I would love to see it, he is interested in money and bling bling and giving his girlfriend million dollar gifts, what the hell ever!! He is EVIL.

I read this today "Michael Vick has gone from earning 12 cents an hour washing pots and pans in prison to once again earning multi-millions playing quarterback in the NFL." BIG DEAL! The NFL are also PIGS, to let this vicious snake back into the NFL to begin with. He can never hide what he has done to those poor animals, and I DON'T want the public to forget the pain and misery he caused these poor animals.

God bless you all, Jodi