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December 15, 2018 at 8:31 am

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I so love having local hope*writers near by and the opportunity to host our first 2020 meet-up! * What a great morning with a few of my Cleveland @hopewriters friends. We got had a great productive morning together and had fun doing it TOGETHER. We shared our writing journey updates - brainstormed ideas together - gained clarity on some things - supported each other’s projects - shared other hope*writer books (@meredith_mcdaniel / @inwantandplenty ) ...helpful tools (@powersheets / @laracasey / @cultivatewhatmatters)... and amazing courses like @annkroeker )We also set our next meet up date and left our time together. * I’m so grateful for this special writing community - those far and near - for the relationships being forged around our common love for words and our God who compels us to share his love and hope with others. * I look forward to seeing the progress we make this year! #hopewriterlife #hopewriters #iamahopewriter #hopewriter #writinghopethings #writingcommunity #writersofhope

So excited to share this life-giving, life-changing, life-lifting book with you by my sweet friend @meredith_mcdaniel * If you’re not following her - I’d like to invite you to do so now. You’ll be glad you did. And I ain’t lyin’! #inwantandplenty #manna #foodforthesoul #hopewriterlife #author #younglife #bookstagram #goodbooks

H A P P P Y N E W Y E A R! Let’s get this decade started! 2 quick questions: What are you looking forward to this year? What are you dreading? Before you answer, can I remind you right out of the gate.... (as I remind myself)... of this one important truth: Our God already knows it all. He knows our beginning and our end and everything in between. - He knows all the good and hard things that lie before each one of us. - He also know what he wants to accomplish in our lives. - He knows who he has made is to be and who he wants us to become. For me...this is another milestone year for me as I approach my 60th birthday (April) I’m working on some personal goals and I’ll be inviting you into my next chapter journey as I leave behind my 50’s and begin this new decade of midlife. I hope you’ll join me in the journey. Come what may. #2020 #1960baby #turning60in20202 #babyboomer #aginggracefully #turning60 #milestonebirthday #aboveandbeyondmidlife #letscelebrategodsgoodnessallyear

Happy 40th to us. ❤️ What a life God has blessed us with. #grateful

Six of our eight kids gathered together this Christmas- of course we are missing our other out of towners - @thebigdoubled @stretaramber @paytonstretar @official_stretar44, Olivia and @bradstretar @courtneystretar and Evie. #sothankfulforallofthem

Merry Christmas one and all.🎄

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A quick FaceTime chat today with this fun-loving adventurous grandboy made my heart leap with all kinds of goodness!!! There’s something about seeing kids use their imagination that tells me all is well in the world. Little minds engaged in good wholesome childhood play is always a good thing. Their little minds imaging all the things. Racing with possibilities. Engaged in becoming more than they presently are. This sweet Spider-Man boy is turning 3 in a few weeks and sadly, I’ll be in Dallas at a conference and enjoying some sweet fellowship with two dear friends - and I’ll be missing his big #3 birthday party. ( so I secretly hope he wears his Spidey costume when we go out for our donut date next week.) I can’t wait to see who this sweet boy becomes over time. * Our little “Acorn Bert” is being firmly planted in the dirt - and becoming “something grander this I know! #tommysturningthree #imagination #spiderman #growingup #acorngert #acorngertandbrotherbert #childrensbooks #booksthatteachgoodstuff #publishedbooksforkids #acorngertbooks #booksforkids #thepathofpotential #helpingkidsreachtheirpotential #booktomakekidsthink #multiethnicbooks #kidsbecomingmore #authorofchildrensfiction

When I first created the concept of Acorn Gert back in 2000 - I was teaching a racially diverse group of teen mom about their amazing hidden potential. * Sixteen years later I published Acorn Gert and Brother Bert - to teach children of all racial backgrounds about their incredible value and their personal al potential. But I made an epic fail by not making the front cover characters visibly diverse. So six months later - I went back to my publisher and told them I wanted to creae a 2nd edition of the book (shown here). * If I had it to do all over again, I would have had the cover include both light and dark skinned characters because I do not want any child who reads this book to feel excluded because of the color of their skin. * Potential within is a message we all need to hear! Every single child needs to know this - no matter who they are!! Our beloved and fearless leader Martin Luther King knew this truth and he (and others like him) led the way for our country to see the human value and potential of every human being. * I’m so grateful that I grew up in a racially diverse city. At the time when forced-bussing was just getting underway- I actually chose to go to a racially diverse high school (where I was the minority) and enjoy the rich experience I had having had so many friends and classmates of color. But I didn’t think of them as friend of color- they were just “my friends”. That experience made me who I am today. I’m so grateful for every single one of my friends (those of all races and color) who make my life so much richer and colorful in every way possible. So today, me and my friends Gert and Bert would like to honor Mr. King by giving away 10 multicultural books to one of my favorite organizations, @younglives @cleve_younglives @younglives_eastern_division (teen mom ministry.) “We love because God first loved us.” 1 John 4:7-8 #happymlkday #mlkday #diversechildrensbooks #acorngert #acorngertandbrotherbert #childrensbooks #booksthatteachgoodstuff #publishedbooksforkids #acorngertbooks #booksforkids #thepathofpotential #helpingkidsreachtheirpotential #booktomakekidsthink #multiethnicbooks #kidsbecomingmore #authorofchildrensfic

Happy Friday Friends!!! ❤️ Here in Ohio, the air is cold and so far, we’ve had only small bouts of snow this winter. The large oak tree that sits on the east side of our home 🏡 stands tall and bare with only a few brown leaves still dangling from a low-hanging branch. The leaves and acorns from the past season hide deep within the earth now lie in a secret place of hiding ...transforming and becoming something different, something new. Over the next several months I want to invite you to follow and share my friend @acorngert (and her brother, Bert) as we look beneath the surface to consider the amazing potential that lies within the acorn. I wrote this life-learning book to help children understand the amazing potential that lies within them. And I want to spread the word to as many mommas and daddy’s as possible. Would you help me do that friend? If so, would you please follow, comment, share, and tag your favorite mom or dad? For more information about purchasing this important life-learning book please refer to the link in my bio. (Or feel free to DM me for details on purchasing a personally signed book 📖 for the littles in your life). 😊 I’ll be sharing some fun activities and creating some exciting giveaways as we head into Spring and Summer- and I’d love ❤️ to have you join me. 🌳🐿 I’d love for you to help me, help more kids take hold of their smallness and begin to understand that God has put greatness with them - to become something much grander than they ever imagined! Thank you!!! Betsy #acorngert #acorngertandbrotherbert #childrensbooks #booksthatteachgoodstuff #publishedbooksforkids #acorngertbooks #booksforkids #thepathofpotential #helpingkidsreachtheirpotential #booktomakekidsthink #multiethnicbooks #kidsbecomingmore #authorofchildrensfiction

This sweet girl just got her signed book her sweet momma @courtneyjones37 asked me to sign to her and my heart couldn’t be any happier! :) I love knowing that my book is “falling” into the hands of precious children like this cute love bug. May you grow to become all God made you to be darling! I know his plans are good, grand, and wonderful. Happy Thanksgiving friends!! #acorngert #acorngertandbrotherbert #acorngertbooks #iamahopewriter #childrensbook #booksthatinspire #booksforkids #christmasbooks #getoutside #kidsbooks #booksforchildren #booksforchildrenofcolor

My heart ❤️ and brain 🧠 are full and ready to take hold of my next right writing thing! I’m so grateful for this past weekend at the @hopewriters conference in Charlotte NC with some of my favorite people!!! And so thankful for the opportunity to meet @mariadismondybooks of @cardinalrulepress * Thank you again @hopewriters for everything you did to make this conference a great event and for letting me sell my book in the @hopewriters bookstore :) I’m praying that seeds of potential will be firmly planted in the tender hearts and lives of my new little readers! #hopewriters #iamahopewriter #hopewritersconference #hopewriterlife #acorngertandbrotherbert #acorngertbooks #acorngert #booksforkids #childrensliterature

Aaaand this!!!! Two more cuties learning about the amazing potential hiding within them!!! Love this!!! Thank you for buying my book and sharing it with your sweet girlies @cherideejohnson !!! May they grow to become all God made them to be!!! #acorngertandbrotherbert #authorofchildrensfiction #childrensbooks #booksthatteachgoodstuff #publishedbooksforkids #acorngertbooks #booksforkids ##helpingkidsreachtheirpotential #booktomakekidsthink #multiethnicbooks #kidsbecomingmore #family #hopewriterlife #hopewriters #iamahopewriter #acorns #fall #oaktrees #kidslovebooks

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