- [Narrator] With more than

one and a half million books in print,

best selling author Squire Rushnell

and his wife Louise Duart

have inspired readers withtheir popular God Winks series.

In their latest GodWink Christmas Stories,

they feature a collectionof extraordinary things

that have happened inthe lives of 30 people

at Christmas time.

One of those storiesinspired the Hallmark Movie

A Godwink Christmas

which premieres Sunday November 18th

starring Kathy Lee Gifford.

- Well Squire and Louise

we welcome you back to the 700 Club.

This is old stomping ground for you guys.

- Yeah family for us.

You know we were justsaying in the green room

how so many of the God Wink stories

happened because wewould watch the 700 Club.

And Squire and I would say wellthat's an amazing God Wink.

And then we'd call up people here

and say do you have thenumber of that person.

We wanna check that out.

And that's a lot of thestories in our books

from the 700 Club.

- I mean just such a plethora of books

that have come out of this concept.

And just for people who Idon't know who they might be

but who wouldn't know what a God Wink is.

Squire, where did that term come from?

- Well this is a new word in the language

and it fills in the vacancy for which you

would have otherwise called a coincidence

but you know it wasn't a coincidence.

So what do you call it?

So when God Wink came into my mind,

what was it maybe 13, 14 years ago.

The moment it came into my mind,

I thought gee that soundslike a friendly word.

Like Godspeed, Godsend, Godwinks,

and I went and I took outall the words coincidence

in that first manuscript and it fit.

- [Terry] It worked.

- And the most important thing is

is that when people started using it,

it fit in the language.

It moved very quickly into the language.

- So you've written so many books Louise.

What made you decide to pull together

God Wink stories for Christmas?

- Well everyone loves Christmas.

And also God has been kindof taken out of Christmas

a little bit.

And we wanted to bring him back in

to show that God is with us at all times.

And there's some sweetstories in there too.

Ones that I think people relate to,

but also they'll look at them and see how

God at a certain place and time

came in to give them a special wink,

a sign that said hey kidI'm thinking about you,

I love you, you're not alone.

And you know in Proverbs 3:6

it says in all your ways acknowledge him

and he'll direct our paths.

Well that's what God Winks are.

When we acknowledge him,

when we pray to him,

he will create God Winksalong our path like sign posts

along our path, God Wink by God Wink.

- [Terry] We're going this way.

- Yes, letting us know howmuch he cares about us.

- Well tell us about theGod Wink story in the book

that's about to become a Hallmark movie.

- Well it is in this book.

And it is a story aboutsome friends of ours

who live on Martha'sVineyard, inn keepers.

And the story is a truestory for Hallmark.

So that in itself is a little unique.

It is called a God Wink Christmas.

It's got G O D in the title of the;

- Imagine such a thing.

- The movie, yes.

That's very unique.

So it's the story of Paula whois a young woman in St Louis.

She kind of accidentally says yes

when the guy asked her to marry him.

And everybody around saidoh, he's the guy for you.

So she felt trapped

that she had made maybethe wrong decision.

And she has an aunt in Nantucket,

played by Kathy Lee Gifford, Aunt Jane.

And so she goes to visit Aunt Jane

just to sort things out.

She gets there and Aunt Janesends her to Martha's Vineyard

'cause she's got abusiness meeting herself.

So she says go to Martha's Vineyard,

it's an island nearby, go antiquing.

Well the fog comes in,it delays the flights,

the fog was the God Wink in itself

and there was a wonderful, handsome guy

sitting by his car atMartha's Vineyard airport

and that was her way to get into town

because all of the cabs weregone because of the weather.

And so Gary Conover andPaula had that first meeting

through God Winks

and the whole movie just unfolds.

And is against the beautifulbackdrop of Martha's Vineyard.

- Listen, speaking of weather

and the beautiful backdropof Martha's Vineyard,

you had a God Wink moment with some snow

that you had wished existed.

- But because we were doing the exteriors

on Martha's Vineyard butshooting a lot of the movie

in Canada.

So the director was coming to the Vineyard

and it was early in December last year

and I said to Squire.

Oh honey, we need snow.

We need a blanket of snow

because it's a Hallmarkmovie and it's Christmas.

- [Squire] It doesn't snow inDecember on Martha's Vineyard.

- I said well then we'vegotta start praying.

So we started praying for snow

and all of a sudden thesnow started coming down.

Terry it was a God Wink in itself.

And then the director came

and he shot all the beautifulshots of Martha's Vineyard

with this beautiful blanket of snow.

And on the last shot,

it went up to 45 degrees,

rain came down, snow was gone.

- Unbelievable.

Well I just wanna mention

the book is a great Christmas gift.

It's called God Wink Christmas.

It's available wherever books are sold.

But make sure you tuneinto the Hallmark channel

that's next Sunday November the 18th,

9:00 PM Eastern, 8:00 PM Central

for the premiere of themovie A God Wink Christmas.

Don't miss it.

Thanks you two.

- Thank you.- Thanks.

- Always wonderful to have you with us.