This week has been a celebration, as I enter my 29th year of life here on Earth starting on September 29th. Let me first say thank you to all those who wished me happy birthday earlier this week. Your love, blessings, and support mean a lot.

For the month of October, I will focus on short stories, GFJ Lip Sync Choir skits, gaming videos, and poetry. I’ve rescheduled all September Announcements this month to navigate through a lot of material to either ready or publish from today to the end of 2025.

Earlier this year, I published my first ever book, a poetry book entitled Blue Skies. Next year, I’m planning to release four poetry books throughout 2026, including a bonus already in progress. Though I published this year, 2026 will mark the beginning of my journey as a creative writer. Many stories and ideas I’ve stored throughout my young years will now be shared with you and the world. As a result, I will publish blogs and poetry on WordPress less next year. Yet, I will continue my impromptu poetry to continue crafting my poetry writing to prepare for my upcoming poetry books. I’ll give more information about all these books at a later time.

If you haven’t purchased Blue Skies., it’s available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble for paperback and the BookLeaf Publishing website for e-book. I will post both flyers below on our various social media platforms. You can download these flyers to post them on your social media; be sure to tag us if you follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, LinkedIn, Blue Sky, & Substack.

Lord, thank you for your blessings and grace bestowed upon us. God, give us peace in this dark and uncertain world. Hear our sincere and deepest prayers from our hearts. Calm our fears and anxieties. Give us faith to trust in Your ways and Your Word. Give us hope to persevere through our trials and dark moments. Help us enlighten this dark world with the light You’ve showed us when You delivered us from our pits and our dark nights. Help us walk in Your hope, so others can find hope in their own lives. We need You, Yeshua! Draw us closer to You, so Your presence will comfort us, even in the dangerous places of the world. Open our eyes to the injustices. Give us the right words and actions to uplift the depressed. Whatever your people ask, Yeshua, do it for them, so they will know You are the One who looked out for them. Even when we are there for them, let You be glorified and be recognized through our walk and our works. Help us to be sincere and genuine in our walk with You, even when the world is unimpressed, so we can live to worship You now and forever. In Jesus’ Name by Your Holy Spirit, I pray. Amen.

COMBINED DEVOTIONAL. Year 2026 will host two combined year devotionals, PSALM 2025 and Healing & Meditation. A new combined schedule will be included in our Google calendar and our 2026 Handbook coming this November.

2026 Devotional. “Healing & Meditation” will focus on wisdom and life lessons about healing from traumas, grief, or other life-altering, life-changing circumstances or situations. This will be a continuation from 2024 devotional, “Change of Circumstances,” which focused on how our circumstances change us or how we change through our circumstances. I will post the devotional, as well with PSALM 2025 and Healing & Meditation throughout the year.

PSALM 2025 BOOK READINGS. We postponed our Psalm 2025 Readings into next year. We will create a new schedule by November 2025. Stay tuned for more information.

BOOK READING. You can read Psalms for the Anxious Heart: A 30-Day Devotional for Uncertain Times for the rest of the year. No journal prompts or devotionals for these readings, so read this book whenever you have time.

CREATE YOUR OWN PSALM ASSIGNMENT. The CYO Psalm Assignment will extend to December 2026. This assignment is to create your own psalm, writing a hymn, poem, prayer, or expression of thanksgiving, similar to the themes and writing of the Book of Psalms.

Optional: You’re obligated to share your psalm as a testimonial by sharing on social media, using the hashtag, #PSALM2025, and tagging us. If you want to publish your psalm on our platform, email us or submit your form on “REQUESTS.” By submitting your form, your psalm will be a part of our testimonials for next year’s (not this year’s) End-of-the-Year Celebration.

PSALM 2025 BOOKS & ACTIVITY BOOKS. If you received your PSALM 2025 Christmas package last year, your PSALMS books and activities can be used for next year. To our new subscribers, I’ll add a list of those books in the 2026 Handbook.

BOOK REQUESTS. If you would like to suggest books for 2026, the deadline for book requests is extended to Saturday, November 15th, 2025. Votes for book requests will take place a week before Thanksgiving. After Thanksgiving, we will select three books for Summer, Fall, & Winter.

We’ve already selected two books for January and Lent: “When Faith Meets Therapy” by Anthony Evans (Jan 2026) & “Cast Your Cares: A 40-Day Journey to Find Rest for Your Soul” (Lent 2026).

2026 SCHEDULE. New combined schedule will be added to our 2026 Plans Handbook coming this November. This will include both PSALM 2025 Readings/Devotionals & the Healing & Meditation 2026 Devotionals.

New puzzles for the month of October are now available. Download the Zip file below to access 8 new puzzles. These puzzles (and past puzzles) are also available for download on our WordPress website.

OCTOBER 2025 SCHEDULE: We will return to our normal schedule this week (Week of October 06th/13th). Schedule below. Birthday Week was cancelled due to a package of new games not received.

FRIGHT FRENZY 2025 SCHEDULE. Fright Frenzy is returning this year with a bang. I’ve chosen seven games, including the new Ninja Gaiden 4 coming out this year. This will mostly be gameplay by chapters, edited with no commentary from me. Schedule may change if Ninja Gaiden 4 doesn’t arrive.

Haunted by Daylight 2025. Dead by Daylight launched their new schedule for their in-game event, Haunted by Daylight, running from October 14th to November 14th. Our plan is to publish up to 100 videos, plus 5 Hatch Compilations. We will publish a batch of 5 videos each day starting on October 26th, the beginning of Fright Frenzy 2025.

Fright Frenzy 2025. Aside from Haunted by Daylight, there will be regular matches of DBD for each chapter as well. Videos will be posted alongside with the HBD and other FF videos as well. Attached is the schedule.

Christmas Extravaganza 2025. Schedule coming soon (December 21st to January 3rd)

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OCTOBER 2025 ANNOUNCEMENTS (Social Media)

IG Story Presentation: Today (Wednesday, October 8th, 2025) [Facebook/Instagram]

Weekly Updates: Saturdays @ 12 PM / 7 PM CT (Facebook/Instagram Stories) starting October 11th

WEEKLY UPDATES (Klaviyo)

Sundays/Mondays - October 12th & October 19th/20th