Anna M. Aquino

            A few nights ago around the dinner table, Dan and I began reminiscing of some of the supernatural stories we had the first few years that we lived in Florida.   There was the time my oldest daughter was set to be born and we had really bad insurance so the doctor waited a couple of days before he induced me.   Our insurance changed on a Monday and I had her by C-section on a Thursday.   There was the time when my husband knew he was supposed to work for this one company and essential called them every week, and sent the boss a get well card.   When one job ended, he never missed a day of work.   He went right to the job he knew God had wanted him to get.   There was the time we bought our first house and technically neither of us had a job because the place Dan was working ran out of work on a Wednesday and we closed on the new house on a Friday, and in faith we went through with it. ...

My oldest daughter is working on a history fair project and she had to pick a turning place in history and do a project on it. I jumped at the chance to get her to do a project on Vietnam. As many of you know my dad was a grunt soldier in the war and essentially it’s my dad’s story that God used to get me writing. Watching her interview my dad and me has opened up some great dialogue in my house. It’s reminded me yet again why I am so passionate about talking about my father’s story and one day getting my book about him published. I want the next generation to know what happened. It’s something deeply rooted within me. It’s also making me want to dust off my first book again and see if I can generate any interest in it in the world of publishing.It can be easy when you go through life to get so caught up in the current project that you lose sight of the foundational things that are within you. But you need to take moments to reevaluate in life where you are and where you are go...