November 17^th

Life is going well. I hope the same is true for you and yours. Here is a cliché for folks who stay away from church because it’s filled with hypocrites. ”Church is a hospital for the sinners, NOT a museum for saints.”

Funny signs:

On a Taxidermist's window: "We really know our stuff."

On a Fence: "Salesmen welcome! Dog food is expensive!"

At a Car Dealership: "The best way to get back on your feet - miss a car payment."

Outside a Muffler Shop: "No appointment necessary. We hear you coming."

The book fair went nicely. I sold six books that day and a number of others took information. I figure people come to the mall to shop. Seeing us selling books is interesting, but not what they came for, so I’m happy for the sales.

The next step is to ask others to tell their friends about the books. The people on my E-mail list received a two page overview of both books. Here is that notice:

Dear Family and Friends,

I’m proud to announce that I have two books self-published. This means all the promotion is up to me and anyone who will aid in the effort. I request your help and indulgence in asking you to forward this E-mail to people on your list. The rest of this mailing is an overview of both books.

God bless you for your help, Ed Reinagel

Eight PROVEN Ways to share Your History

By Edward Reinagel

If you considered preserving your history for future generations, you will find eight tested ways and the step-by-step directions to accomplish your goal.

WRITING POINTERS are at the beginning to help people with form and style.

WRITING AN ANECDOTAL HISTORY spells out how to share your history, story by story with ways to have fun gathering memories from other family members. Included are ideas for organizing to keep your history in logical progression, and dozens of questions to prod memories.

VIDEOS / CD’S / DVD’S This chapter covers how to edit, add your voice to existing recordings, and enliven already gathered histories.

AUDIO HISTORY Here I give ideas about gathering existing tapes, re-taping with added information giving more meaning to the listener.

PHOTO ALBUMS AND COMBINED PICTURES How many pictures and albums are stored in your house? Here are ways to share those pictures with younger generations so they remain as active memories for generations to come.

JOURNALS AND MEMORABILIA Beside already written journals, several specialty kinds of journals are explained in detail with examples to guide your work.

OLD MOVIES What good are they if you don’t have a movie projector? Here I spell out exact ways to get your movies on to video tape, edit it for your branch of the family, and name the people as they appear on the video. What good are pictures to future generations if they have no idea whom they are seeing?

CRAFTING A HISTORICAL NOVEL If this is the way you choose to share your history you will find helpful pointers to guide you in starting, gathering information and completing your project.

PROBLEM PREVENTING SUGGESTION This chapter is included to save you frustration. I share problems I overcame, so you don’t suffer the same frustrations.

GENEALOGY If you want to stay strictly with a genealogy you will find web information, lists of web sites to check, and various other places to garner historical facts about your ancestors.

These Starter Questions may help you write some of your memories.

Some will only be a few paragraphs long, but all together they will add up to sharing family history.

• First Home- where was it? What kind of neighborhood do you remember? Were there many kids for you to play with? What games did you play? Did you play in one another’s house, or did you play outdoors? Did you have your own room, or did you share a room?
• Picnics – Did you have family picnics? Is there a special park you love and remember?
• Fourth of July – How did you celebrate the 4^th as a child and when you celebrate now as an adult? What does the 4^th mean to you?
• W.W.II – How did your family handle rationing? Did you raise food and save recyclable materials?
• Television – Who was the first in your neighborhood to get a TV? What were your favorite programs when you did get one? Was it color or black and white?

This book can help you prepare and share your family history. Each method listed is treated with how to examples, and explanations. On my blog you will find pieces of my books, as well as humor, poetry and whatever. I post new material once a week. Google: http://www.ed-reinagel-writer.blogspot.com/

You will also see the following: Book order site. Highlight this address on my blog site and right click; open hyperlink. http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fStoreID=2294204 Or you can just enter the web site.

Pump Up Your Prayer Life

Chapter titles:

Personalize Your Prayers.

Get the Prayer Habit. Books are great gifts ~ anytime.

Spiritual Insurance From me, each book is $10.

Take Forty, Practice Patience Plus $2.38 Mailing for 1 0r 2 books.

On line Pump Up is ~ $13.90

Get off Center and on Target On line Eight Ways is ~ $12.74

I See You.

Pray When? Who’s Got Time?

Bloom where you are planted.

Thankfulness

Sacrifice Why Bother.

Spiritual Speed Which of these subjects could help you draw closer to God?

Each chapter shares ideas, Bible passages, stories, personal experience and helpful pointers. The last chapter in the book repeats ideas from the other chapters for easy paging back to for a quick reminder. I am including some of them here for your consideration.

• Adding meditation to formal prayers is one way to personalize prayer.
• Simply talk to God as we do to friends.
• Say things like ~ thank You Lord for getting me to do the outside work yesterday before the rain returned. Help me patiently listen to this person; help me understand their need to be heard. I offer these acts of charity to You in reparation for all the times I injured You.
• Have you ever timed a traffic light? Most last about three Lords prayers. Pray instead of getting edgy or fuming when stopped for a light pray for someone.
• Thank you God for the gift of this day, may I use it in ways that are pleasing to You.”
• “Thanks for giving me an idea for dinner. Thank you for having my friend call today, I needed that.
• Lord, as I complain about the little thorn in my finger, I remember Your crown of thorns for me. Forgive me Lord, for my complaint about my little hurt. Your pain was infinitely worse.
• The gifts and talents You gave me are a great pleasure. Help me use them to please others.
• Forgive me for my selfish attitude about caring for the family You gave me. Help me remember we are all Your children and You give me the grace to be Your servant.
• End every day with counting your blessings and thanking God for each gift.
• We can get in the habit of offering every act to God. Start with a little prayer like, God I offer this to You, and then do cooking, cleaning, laundry, shopping, earning a living, and every other thing that keeps us busy.

See the other side for my blog page and ordering information.

God bless you; Ed Reinagel Call me at 530-241-5779

Until next time, God bless you, Ed

Well life is good as it always has been. The good Lord is still taking care of us, and so is our family. We had a great celebration cruise thanks to family. This weekend I will participate in a Book Fair in the Shasta mall. where once a year writers gather to tout their wares and hopefully sell some books. It's nice to say I finally published both books. Now my job will be to promote them. In case you don't already know, they are: "Pump up Your Prayer Life" Build a constant conversation with God. The other one is, "Eight Ways to Share Your Family History."
Until the next time, God bless you, Ed