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Do you thrive in chaos? (Blog Post at Seriously Write)

July 31, 2020 By Jan Thompson

Today, I guest blogged over at Seriously Write about writing through chaotic times.

https://seriouslywrite.blogspot.com/2020/07/do-you-thrive-in-chaos-by-jan-thompson.html

Check it out!

Featured is my entire Savannah Sweethearts collection of 11 books. The series is complete!

JanThompson.com/savannah

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Many years ago, when my son was in preschool, I chatted with another mother at our church nursery. Two of her kids were running in circles around her, and she was carrying her toddler on her hip. She did not have a diaper bag with her. The toddler was missing a shoe, and the mother said she might have left that one shoe at home…

In spite of the chaos around her, my friend looked calm and peaceful. Like she was in the eye of a hurricane, you know? And all her kids survived to adulthood. God provided!

“For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints” (I Corinthians 14:33, KJV).

There is a big difference between confusion and chaos. While some Bible translations use the word “confusion,” other translations use the word “disorder.” Strong’s Concordance says that the original Greek word for confusion is akatastasia, which means instability or tumult. In fact, Strong went on to describe an environment filled with “disturbance, upheaval, revolution.”

The word chaos first appeared in the fifteenth century out of the Greek word khaos by way of Latin and French. My dictionary says chaos means “complete disorder and confusion.”

The world might be chaotic around us. Our lives might also be chaotic. But Christ in us, the hope of glory (Colossians 1:27), keeps us from total confusion!

 

Is there chaos in your writing life?

When I was thirty years old, I prayed about what I would like to do for the rest my life, and it was clear to me that I should fulfill my life-long goal of being a full-time writer. However, shortly after I made the decision to leave my IT career for a writing career, God gave us a child, and I finally became a mother after many childless years. God blessed us with a super busy life all the way from the diaper stage through many years of homeschool and then college life.

As an empty nester now, I assumed I would be free to write all day long and I could spend the rest of my life writing all the books that I have planned for decades.

Not so fast!

Ever since my son finished high school, I have been beset by health problems. After his senior trip overseas, I fell sick for the rest of the year and into the next year, which derailed my plans to write many books. When I recovered from those bouts of recurring colds, I was diagnosed with heart issues.

After God provided a cardiologist for me, the COVID virus pandemic swept the world, shutting down most of the USA, and thus our normal life. My son’s college campus closed, and he was home for online school. To go out or not to go out? To mask or not to mask? So many questions with few answers.

And now my husband has heart problems, too. Seriously?

On top of all that, in the middle of the pandemic, I was also diagnosed with a frozen shoulder. Frozen what? I had never heard of such a thing. It was a new medical terminology for me. My orthopedic specialist said it could take one to two years to thaw it out. I ended up in physical therapy twice a week and will be in it for the rest of this year and probably next year. I hate to admit that I cried at PT—even as I wondered if those painful sessions could be written off as book research. Hmm…

I never expected to semi-retire into an empty nest full of health problems. It was one thing after another, not to mention all the other events that happened in the family, including an aunt passing away in the middle of COVID season. Social distancing prevented us from attending her funeral as well as preventing me from visiting my widowed mother in fragile health.

Chaos after chaos. And yet…

 

How is God’s Word true for you in a chaotic world?

I am thankful that God is always faithful. God never changes. He is always the same (Hebrews 13:8). The Lord is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end (Revelation 22:13). He is the author and finisher of our faith (Hebrews 12:2).

“For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:38-39, KJV).

No matter what goes on in the world, I am grateful that God’s peace still prevails and surpasses all comprehension (Philippians 4:6).

At the end of the day, if Christ shines through the chaos of life, then regardless of what happens, I am where I need to be: in the palm of His hand. After all, He who began a good work in us will also complete it (Philippians 1:6).

“Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ” (Philippians 1:6, KJV).

Do you live in a chaotic world? How does His perfect will prevail for you in your times of chaos?

May God always keep us safe in His care!

Joyfully in Jesus,
Jan Thompson

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Do you have the KINDLE app to read my ebooks?

July 31, 2020 By Jan Thompson

Most of my ebooks are now on Amazon Kindle Unlimited, where voracious readers read a mile a minute. However, if you prefer to buy my ebooks, you can also find them on Amazon. It’s easy and you can download the free app software here:

https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/fd/kcp/

 

 

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The Families of SAVANNAH SWEETHEARTS

July 30, 2020 By Jan Thompson

The Savannah Sweethearts Christian beach romance collection features eleven couples in a multiethnic Christian community in the coastal city of Savannah, Georgia, and its adjacent beach town of Tybee Island on the Atlantic Ocean. Against a backdrop of ocean, sand, and sun, this mix of clean and wholesome novels and long novellas showcases various aspects of the human need for God and for one another. Have some tea, settle in a comfortable reading chair, and enjoy these sweet celebrations of faith, hope, and love in Jesus Christ.

The Savannah Sweethearts series is complete. You can begin reading Know You More (Book 1) or you can read the first 3 books (including the prequel, Ask You Later) in a boxed set. All the books in this series are available for purchase on Amazon or to rent/borrow via Kindle Unlimited.

 

Prequel to Savannah Sweethearts & Vacation Sweethearts:

  • Book 0: Ask You Later

 

Wei Family:

  • Book 1: Know You More
  • Book 2: Tell You Soon (Romance with Suspense)

 

Dupree Family:

  • Book 3: Draw You Near
  • Book 4: Cherish You So

 

Hometown Families:

  • Book 5: Walk You There
  • Book 6: Love You Always (Romance with Suspense)

 

Patel Family:

  • Book 7: Kiss You Now
  • Book 8: Find You Again

 

Untermeyer Family:

  • Book 9: Wish You Joy (Romance with Christmas)
  • Book 10: Call You Home

 

You can find the entire series here (without prequel): JanThompson.com/savannah-amazon

You can find the first 3 books (with prequel) in a bundle here: JanThompson.com/markers-amazon

 

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SING WITH ME is Coming Soon!

July 29, 2020 By Jan Thompson

My latest Seaside Chapel novel will be released in one month, readers! Preorder SING WITH ME now to save $4 per ebook. This romantic women’s fiction is about a widowed billionaire who falls in love with a Christian chef who sings hymns at church.

JanThompson.com/sing-amazon

 

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Have you read ONCE A HERO?

July 28, 2020 By Jan Thompson

A former FBI agent and a treasure hunter must join forces to defeat a mutual enemy in a race to find treasures from the lost Amber Room.

Emerging from a deep undercover operation gone wrong, FBI Special Agent Jake Kessler finds himself suspended without pay and left out of the remaining hunt for the most notorious terrorist in the world. The only person who might be able to help him is a random stranger he meets in San Francisco, who wants something in return even when there is a price on her own head.

Once a Hero is book 2 in USA Today bestselling author Jan Thompson’s Protector Sweethearts Christian Romantic Suspense series. It follows the story of FBI Special Agent Jake Kessler, who first appears undercover in Reach for Me (Vacation Sweethearts Book 2), where the hunt for an international terrorist forms the undercurrent of that novel.

  • Amazon USA: JanThompson.com/hero-amazon
  • Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07Z6DCJ81
  • Amazon Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07Z6DCJ81
  • Amazon Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B07Z6DCJ81

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Have you read ONCE A THIEF?

July 27, 2020 By Jan Thompson

A private investigator looking for her missing mother.
A reformed art thief getting a new lease on life.
Twelve bejeweled eggs with secrets of their own.

Private investigator Helen Hu’s mother vanishes while trying to make amends for stealing some bejeweled eggs connected to the Amber room. The best way for Helen to rescue her is to go underground where thieves and robbers live. Her only ticket into that nefarious world is another art thief. He says he is reformed. Or is he? Once a thief, always a thief?

Five years into his incarceration, art thief Reuben Costa is released early prison for helping INTERPOL and the FBI shut down some jewel thieves even more notorious than his own art thief family has been. The work is done, and Reuben is now a free man. He isn’t sure if he wants to return to the underworld to find a woman who might have something to do with his father’s death.

However, Reuben is the only person who can help Helen. As Helen and Reuben rush to rescue Mama Hu before the matriarch gets herself killed, the unlikely partners end up bargaining for not only life and death but also their own hearts and souls.

Amazon: JanThompson.com/thief-amazon

 

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Raised on a tropical island, USA Today bestselling author Jan Thompson can hear the ocean when she writes her Christian beach-town romance novels. Besides small-town stories, Jan also writes big-city romantic suspense and international technothrillers, a nod to her background in computer science. Jan’s books are for readers who enjoy stories of faith, family, and friends. Other than being an author and publisher, Jan is also a wife, mother, reader, sewing enthusiast, piano player, an artist, and chief of staff to the family cat.

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