More info about the books

This morning Lori and I (and of course Austin) went to church. Anthony is just now returning home from Nashville, and Dick worked today. This afternoon I finally got to talk to Destiny on the phone. She was so excited about the things she had gotten in the mail from me, and said she has written a letter to me, but she can't tell me what it says. I had sent her an extra piece of paper and a stamped, addressed envelope so she could easily write to me. I hope someone will get it to a mailbox for her.

In a comment on yesterday's post, my friend Cheryl asked if I could give just a hint what the Yada Yada Prayer Group books are about. So I went to Neta Jackson's website and copied the introduction to the first book in the series.

The Yada Yada Prayer Group^®

a Novel by

Neta Jackson

What do an ex-con, a former drug addict, a real estate broker, a college student, and a married mother of two have in common?

Nothing, or so Jodi Baxter thought. Who would have imagined that God would make a group as mismatched as that the closest of friends?
“I almost didn’t even go to the Chicago Women’s Conference—after all, being thrown together with five hundred strangers wasn’t exactly my ‘comfort zone.’ But I would be rooming with my boss, Avis, and I hoped that maybe I might make a friend or two.
“When Avis and I were assigned to a prayer group of twelve women at the conference, I wasn’t sure what to think. There was Flo, an outspoken ex-drug addict; Ruth, a Messianic Jew who could smother-mother you to death; and Yo-Yo, an ex-con who wasn’t even a Christian! Not to mention women from Jamaica, Honduras, South Africa—practically a mini-United nations. We certainly didn’t have much in common.
“But something happened that weekend to make us realize we had to hang together. So ‘the Yada Yada Prayer Group’ decided to keep praying for each other via e-mail. That worked for a while, but our personal struggles and requests soon got too intense for cyberspace, so we decided to meet together every other Sunday night.
“Talk about a rock tumbler!—knocking off each other’s rough edges, learning to laugh and cry along the way. But when I faced the biggest crisis of my life, God used my newfound girlfriends to help teach me—Jodi Baxter, longtime Christian ‘good girl’—what it means to be just a sinner saved by grace.”
The rest of the seven books in the series are a continuation of the things these women and their families go through, REAL LIFE situations, and the way they pray for each other and support each other through thick and thin. These are by far the best novels I have ever read.