Five Sisters Must Marry Cousins to Keep Inheritance.

That would have been the headline in the Israel Daily Times, printed during the Wilderness Wanderings. The article would have been written by Moses some forty years after he lead the Jewish nation out of Egypt.

Odd headline, right?  Five sisters must marry cousins? Yes, odd, but it's not fake news. 

Okay, here's the history. The twelve tribes were promised an inheritance in the new land, and they were now on the border, ready to enter. These five sisters had no husbands and their father had died. Well, guess what? Women couldn't inherit land, animals, money, etc. If anything came to them, it automatically went to their husbands.

These ladies had no men in their lives, so they gathered their skirts together and boldly went to Moses. They asked him why they couldn't have the inheritance. If they received none, there would be no allotment due to their family.

Moses took it to the Lord, and the Lord agreed with the ladies!

Yay! Chalk one up for women with courage and a sense of fairness.

God told Moses to "give them property as an inheritance among their father's relatives and turn their father's inheritance over to them." Numbers 28:7.

These ladies were descendants of Joseph and were of the tribe of Manesseh, Joseph's son. Now get this. The family heads of the Manesseh clan went to Moses. They had begun to worry. Together, they voiced a legitimate concern. "What if the sisters marry men other than an Israelite? Then their inheritance will be taken away and given to a non-member of the nation." Numbers 36:3.

So Moses made another trek to speak to God. God says the daughters may marry whomever they want as long as they marry withing the tribal clan of the father.

So the ladies married cousins on their father's side, and everyone had a happy ending.

Great story, right?

These noble women obeyed the Lord.  I wonder if they had happy marriages?  Relatively speaking, of course. 

All my books have happy endings. Have you enjoyed any yet? I hope you will. 

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A Fresh Start Motivates.

A New Year Designates New Plans

A motivation I have is to plan a 2020 vacation. And diet. Weight loss is always on the daily agenda, but I won't diet while on vacation.

At this moment, we, hubby and I, are looking into an Amtrak train trip to New Orleans. 

Have you ridden a train?  I have. Many times. 

One similar to the picture above.

 As a child growing up in Irving, TX, we caught the train to Dallas to go shopping. It was quite fun. I also rode one with my mom to Alabama, but I've never been on Amtrak.  

From Houston to New Orleans via Amtrak is an 8 hour trip. We'll stay a few days and return. We've been to NOLA often, but we haven't been lately. The food is amazing, and I want to tour the WWII museum.

When we go, I'll take pictures and post them on this blog. Many of you enjoyed my posts from the California trip.  Here's a link if you want to check it out. https://gaynlewis.blogspot.com/search?q=California

I love travel. After my dad died, I took a cruise all by myself. I few from Houston to Los Angeles and boarded a ship headed to Ensenada, Mexico. An excursion was planned for Catalina Island. Many of the adventures I experienced on that trip appear in my book, Sarah and the Midnight Cruise to Catalina Island.

Someone asked me recently if I had a book featuring travel and romance. Yes! I do. It's also filled with humor.

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Here's a 5 star review from Readers' Favorite.

Review

Book Review

Reviewed by Gracie Bradford for Readers' Favorite

Sarah and a Midnight Cruise to Catalina is written by Gay N. Lewis. This Christian based fiction book is a well-written story about two angels sent down to Earth on a voyage by way of a cruise to Catalina Island, focusing on the same target but with different expected outcomes. One angel (Sarah/Hope) is the real angel. The other angel is the evil minion, Talen. An angel named Gabriella and Mother Goodness also make an appearance. Sarah and the evil minion's charge is to find the right man for a virgin named Carolyn. When both transform from angels into human form, it's hard to tell the good angel from the evil angel. Both angels engage in many hilarious and devious shenanigans.

Sarah and a Midnight Cruise to Catalina by Gay N. Lewis is a captivating story about the role of an angel, using human behavior which keeps the reader laughing. The author uses southern slang when the heavenly angel transforms into a human disguise to depict humor and identify with the characters. It is hard to put the book down from anticipating what the two angels will do next to achieve their individual goals. The book is written as a self-help book with an impressive entertaining twist and motivational quotes from the Bible. Most people's image of an angel differs widely from Sarah. Sarah's character was being tested by her superior beings who had oversight over her moment by moment escapades. Sarah even experienced adverse symptoms from eating and taking certain kind of medicines. The storyline with the red shoes is alone worth reading the book - just hilarious.

Here's what I wrote about the book.

From the Author

Carolyn, the heroine in the book, takes a cruise alone in August. The ship docks on Catalina Island, and she explores the area. I actually did that! All by myself. Many of the incidents in the book happened to me. My luggage got lost. I went to Los Angeles to catch the ship, the luggage went to Dallas. Carolyn's dad had just died. Mine had too--three weeks prior to the cruise. The cruise proved a healing experience. The small cabin was organized and orderly. My life was not. Others cooked, cleaned, and presented refreshing, soothing moments of escape. I didn't meet a handsome stranger who kissed me at midnight, and I didn't have a haphazard angel helping me, but I suspect a kind angel was near at all times. An experienced angel who helped me overcome grief. In this book, Sarah helps in a chaotic way, but she gets the job done, and she makes one smile as she does it.

I think you'll like it.  Let me know!

New Year! New Start!

A new start to any project is welcome, right?

What do you plan to begin? A diet? Yes, me too.

I'm not looking forward to it.  Are you?

If we were Sarah, it would be simple. Sarah, my chaotic angel, can rearrange her size at any given moment. I write fantasy. It doesn't happen in real life. I wish it did.

In my book, Sarah and the Angelic, Magical Makeover, Sarah helps Valerie lose a few pounds and develop confidence.

Maybe we need a guardian angel to help us.

But Sarah is dyslexic. If she helped me or you, she'd probably get it backwards and instead of making us a twig, she'd turn us into a Redwood tree trunk. 

Here I am with hubby in Yosemite. See how big this tree is? Since Sarah gets measurements backward, she'd probably make us this size.  Then she'd have to call on her superiors and ask for a pardon. We'd better stick to proven methods. Like a normal diet.

Sarah is a regular hoot.  Kinda like us. She messes up royally. 

This book is available on Amazon and all Internet book sites. Here's the Amazon link. Amazon