Know the importance of the season you’re in and a wise (per)son you will be. But what a waste when an incompetent (per)son sleeps through his day of opportunity! Proverbs 10:5 TPT (parenthesis are mine) Don’t you love when God speaks clearly by multiple avenues? That’s been my experience this week. Between my Bible plan …
I woke up a few days ago—after trying to work on rewriting my novel—with the idea for this blog keeping me from falling back to sleep. I have to explain a few things first. I finished my manuscript like three years ago and turned it in for a developmental edit. The comments that came back …
Looking Forward, Looking Back and Written are the two posts where I introduce my One Word for this past year and the next. In them I give my supporting scriptures and I even had a song this year. But since you are probably too busy to read these, I’ll summarize. This year’s word was Fresh—fresh …
So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up. Galatians 6:9 NLT I hate to admit it, but there have been many times in my life when I get to a road block or a challenge on …
I had to take a few days to recover from my trip to California. Between travel, the WCCW Conference, visiting relatives, and coming home only to jump back into other commitments, I’m ready to settle in and write. On the first day of the conference, I attended an intensive workshop on marketing with Marci Seither. …
Change is not always a scary thing. Sometimes we choose change. For me it’s like rearranging the furniture. I generally do this at least once a year so we can fit in the Christmas tree. Sometimes it will be because we bought a new piece of furniture. But once in awhile it’s just because it …
I returned home from my first in-person writers conference (#RealmMakers2023) last night around 11:00 pm (with a 2 hour time difference my body said it was 1:00 am). I was so exhausted that when I slipped out of the truck my legs had the strangest sensation, like I had just gotten off of a boat …
This is where I’m headed this week. My emotions have been rollercoaster-ing and I expect that will continue through the weekend. Right now I’m in the “Yay! I can’t wait.” mode . I’d like to stay there and not venture into the “Oh my God, I have to hurry or I’ll miss my flight.” mode, …
“Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.” Isaiah 55:2 ESV This is the scripture the Holy Spirit gave me to contemplate as I sat reading a …
I was supposed to be on my way to retreat this weekend. Unfortunately, there was a forecast for snow in the mountain passes and everyone but me would have to drive through them. It was going to be about abiding and I was already feeling the Spirit’s tug toward writing my blog about that, but …
The Far Reaches of Grace 