Anna M. Aquino

              Greetings to all of you my fabulous people!   I pray that you all had an awesome Christmas season.   My family and I just returned from Canada and I am excited to share with you the word that I feel the Lord gave me for 2016.               I want to take a moment to preface this word though with the admission that if any of y’all know me well you know that I’m not quick to try to come up with a catchy word from the Lord.   This is something that I always pray about and seek the Lord regarding, and it’s a great privilege to get to share what I believe the Lord is saying to His people.   I want to hear what God is saying to us   as a corporate message and not just jump on the prophetic bandwagon.   It’s always been really cool in the years past to see how these words have come to pass throughout the years even if they...

Hello my super fabulous awesome readers! I just wanted to give a quick shout out to wish you all a very Merry Christmas.  May you have an amazing season! He is the reason! My family and I will be traveling in the next week, but I will be back late in the week to deliver what I feel God is telling me for 2016.   Remember, God has awesome plans for your life.  So get excited!  Super Smiles!

  I was thinking this morning how much our society has changed in the last twenty years.   I sit here in my late thirties and I feel as if I stand on the bridge of being able to see both the past and the future and I’m concerned.   The younger generation needs to see what morality is, and raise a standard for the next generations.   We are living now in a world that has gone beyond an “I’m okay, you’re okay” world.   It’s become “I’m okay, and if you don’t think I’m okay then I’ll pester you or sue you until either I gag you, silence you or change your mind” mentality.   I find this beyond concerning.   People have a right to have a difference of opinion.   If you don’t agree with me, then that’s your choice.   Jesus NEVER threatened to cut someone’s head off, sue them for ridiculous amounts of money, or forced people to follow him.   He loves people.   Getting offended because someone doesn’t believe like you do is immatur...

              I was contemplating today about some of the things I’ve learned through my years writing.   After the holidays I will begin a new YA trilogy, and my brain has finally started to step into brainstorming mode.   Since these books will be #24, #25, and #26 in my list of manuscripts I think that in writing this blog I may have been around this mountain a few times.   I hope my random lessons can help some of you write the visions that God has put in your head. 1)        Write!   My dear late spiritual mentor used to always say, “It’s harder for God to move a parked car than it is for Him to move a moving one.”   Was he belittling the power of God by saying this?   No.   What his point was, is that often you have to just move forward in what you sense God is leading you, and allow God to steer things the way He is guiding you.   People ask me al...

God has awesome plans for your life.  Be Thankful for what is behind, and get excited for what is ahead!  Happy Thanksgiving!

              Most of you know my story.   God called me into ministry at the age of 12, and to write my first book at the age of 16.    I was a kid that no one would have expected this out of: I wasn’t the greatest writer, I always just wanted to fit in, and would have NEVER dreamed that I would be doing the things I am doing today.   I had this crazy notion that it would be an easy adventure, and that the hard part would be writing the books.   It hasn’t been the easiest journey, and honestly the easy part is writing.   The part that has felt like it was the wall of Jericho has been the publishing side. It took me a few years to really start working towards this goal, and I really started this journey in 2000. God broke through that in 2012 when Cursing the church or Helping it? was released and then earlier this year a publisher picked up Confessions of a Ninja Mom .   ...

Hello Fabulous People! Very excited to get to send this video out to y'all.  Here's my latest TBN interview! https://youtu.be/Zeu_5UDSgu0 God has awesome plans for your life.  Get excited!

             This weekend I had the awesome opportunity to attend my church’s woman’s conference in Johnstown, OH.  The New Vintage Conference at Faith Life Church was everything one could expect.  As always, my church knows how to put on an event.  I was blessed to be there and people came from other states, cities and countries.  I was in a workshop about using the creativity God gave you for the kingdom and I noticed that one of the attendees mentioned she was from my hometown.  I made a mental note of it, and enjoyed the workshop. Later in the day I ran into the woman in the bathroom and in a moment of trying to make small talk, I introduced myself.           “Hello, I grew up in Marion.”  The woman looked at me like I was crazy.  It was an awkward moment and standing at the sink I was trying to keep the conversation light.  “I heard you say you lived in M...

I'm pretty excited about this!  I hope to see some of y'all there! And check it out!  I made the B&N website! http://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780061728530-0

            Most of my readers have heard my story dozens of times.  I should have died in a car accident at 2 ½.  God called me into ministry when I was in the 6 th grade.  At the time to me in my Lutheran raised mind I thought that meant I’d go be a Lutheran Pastor, but God had other plans.              When I sat in the movie Forrest Gump the summer between my junior and senior year of high school, I had no idea that the movie would change the course of my life.  I know saying God used a movie changed your life may sound a little overly dramatic to some, but it did to me.  There were so many scenes with Forrest in Vietnam; something deep on the inside of me struck a chord.  I’d grown up with my father’s Vietnam stories and I wanted to tell his story.  In fact I knew it was God’s mandate on my life that I would do so.  I wen...

Hello Super Fabulous People! Just wanted to encourage y'all to check out this article that I wrote for Inspire Me Today! http://inspiremetoday.com/brilliance/embrace-the-journey-of-life/ Love y'all, Anna

            Hello my dear readers.  I know it’s been way too long since I’ve blogged and I find there are moments I really miss it.  The TBN taping went awesome, and I am still waiting to get my hands on the DVD so I can upload it.  When I get it, my media team (Dan) and I will work on getting it on YouTube.             Anyway, as many of you know if you follow me on social media, that I finished my 22 nd book a few weeks ago.  This week I finished the first read through.  It’s funny that with every book I’ve ever written there has been an internal monologue as I’ve written it.  Voices that are always telling me that “This book is the worst I’ve written.”  “No one will read this.” or “You don’t have enough for a whole manuscript.”  All through the writing process I fight these thoughts and fears.  I often spend entire books like...