Welcome to the newest entrant to our Impact Radio USA stable of shows, with "Impact Interviews and Music". The title says it all, as we provide exhilarating interviews with some terrific people and, of course, we augment the interviews with great music!

Each episode of "Impact Interviews and Music" airs LIVE every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 10:00 am ET, then repeats at 10:00 pm ET on the same date.

On today's show, we spoke with CHRISTINA RHOADS and KAREN MAY

CHRISTINA RHOADS

From Her Website:

"Christina Rhoads resides on an Arabian horse farm where she divides her time (when she isn’t fixing fence or stacking hay) between writing novels, painting and training equines. While studying creative writing, as she earned a BA in English from Indiana University, she fell madly in love with the act of creating characters and then sharing them with the world.

She often describes her ideal afternoon as one spent riding her horse, Major Temptation, and then curling up with a good book and cup of peppermint tea.

“Elsie?” the dust settled, and she took a deep breath, gathering her anger around her. Carefully, trying not to let her limp show, she turned toward the now famous natural horsemanship trainer. The Lakota cowboy, Corbin Darkhorse, and the very first man she had ever loved, stood watching her. He was even more handsome than she remembered: dark hair, dark eyes, with long-fingered hands weathered by the sun and wind. She swallowed a mouthful of dirty words and wondered why he had to be here, on this day, as she picked up her mustang for the competition.

Forgiveness had never been one of Elsie Rosewood’s strengths, and Corbin could see she hadn’t changed over the last ten years. In fact, she looked as wild, angry and stubborn as the mustang pacing in the corral behind her. His mind filled abruptly with the old image of Elsie’s face bloodied, as a previous wild horse threw her to the ground and trampled her limp body. Ten years was a long time to run, and Corbin knew if he ever wanted to have peace, and the trust of the only woman he’d ever loved, then he would have to prove how much he had changed.

The only thing standing in the way of a once- in-a-lifetime love is a Mustang Training Competition, $100,000, and a past neither forgotten nor forgiven."

KAREN MAY

From Her Website: "On the surface, my story doesn’t seem that interesting. I was raised Catholic, never left my faith, got married to my high school sweetheart, and am raising a family in suburban Texas. Most people’s lives look a bit like this from the outside. However, when we peek inside, we always see that there’s much more to the story.

Yes, I was raised in faith, and always believed that God was personal and invested in me, I was a child, and had the faith of a child. God was “up there” as a Great Puppeteer and would bend down to pull some strings and move some scenery when I really needed it.

My high-school sweetheart was an atheist. He was important to me, and I was pretty sure that this was the one God intended for me. Even so, when he asked me to marry him, I said that I would on the condition that he attend church with me each week. He agreed, we married, and he remained true to his promise – challenging, questioning, or complaining almost every time we left Mass.

Then, ten years into our marriage, he discovered that his challenges, questions and complaints were all leading to a discovery of God for himself. In fact, his challenges, questions, and complaints helped lead to an explosion in my own faith. Suddenly I was face to face with a God that was not only personal and invested, but was so close that I couldn’t separate myself from Him if I tried. Actually, there was no way I would ever want to at that point.

And GREAT music selected just for you!

Thank you for stopping in! Enjoy!