We’ve been walking through a rough summer. If you are on my email list, you know a bit of my house woes. If you are from Texas, you might know some of our other stresses due to my husband’s former job. Not to mention health …
Slowing Down the Word with Summer Gross
I met Summer at our recent Mary DeMuth Literary retreat. She is a beautiful, peace-filled woman who loves Jesus and the Word of God. Not only does she exude peace in her person, when she speaks, her voice rolls over you like …
Droughts
We are headed to Boston in October to visit our daughter, see the condo she bought (last spring!), and leaf peep. But the other day she sent us an article about the effect of the current drought on the fall colors. Turns out, …
What’s Waiting Up Ahead?
I found this old post I wrote near the end of 2010. A much younger me, and yet much needed wisdom for older me today. May you need this encouragement, too: “It would be so much easier if I knew now that I’d be …
God Doesn’t Give Busy Work
I’m sure you are familiar with the concept of “busy work.” It’s the work given in an educational setting that keeps the students occupied for a period of time but doesn’t contribute much to the overall educational goals. …
Therapy Tuesdays
We started meeting about a year and a half ago. We knew each other from our home group through church. And we were friends. But each of us also had another connection—a desire to write. And so we began meeting weekly, the …
The Beauty of Waiting in the Writing Life
My friend and fellow author Rachelle Rea Cobb in posting in my place on Inspired by Life ... and Fiction. Come read about her and her new historical novel that released a couple of weeks ago! …
Clearing Space
For the past couple of months I’ve been cleaning things out. We moved from one storage unit to another which is about 1/3 of the size of the original one! But in spite of the frustration of it, it’s been good to make space in …