Encouragement
Oh, The Games We Play
Sometimes it’s hard to get motivated. I tend to get bogged down and overloaded with all the stuff I have to do, and then become paralyzed and unable to do any of it! I often have to play games with myself just to get moving in the right direction. I love the “Just for Today”…
Stitched
For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10 NIV With great thought and vision, fabrics are selected. My hand glides along the patterns as I imagine the finished creation. First I stretch the cloth, smoothing the wrinkles, measuring…
Pain is Good!
Today at church our pastor spoke about how pain isn’t always a bad thing. It’s a God given response to something very wrong in our bodies. Without pain a person might not go to the doctor. They might not even know they’re sick until it’s too late! It’s the same with God. Sometimes God can…
Heart Transplant and Back Surgery
No, not me or even a friend or family member…MY WIP! I lost count as to how many HEARTs and BACKs are in my WIP. Between my the heart lurching, and jumping into throats and thudding against her ribs it’s no wonder my WIP had a BACK problem as well. As in BACK THEN, instead…
Learning from Loss
Imagine losing everything. It’s bad enough worrying about losing all my WIPs to a computer crash, but after this past Monday, such anxieties seem pretty small scale. You see, this past Monday, my husband’s sister and her family lost everything in a house fire. Everything but each other. These things happen and we all wonder…
Passion
Father, I want those you gave me to be with me, right where I am…I have made your very being known to them – who you are and what you do – and continue to make it known, so that your love for me might be in them exactly as I am in them. …
He is Risen!
Who is God? What is Easter? Isaiah 53 1Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? 2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in…
The “Promised Land” of Writing
How do you feel about the state of your writing? Does it seem you have been wandering in the desert waiting for something miraculous to happen? Do you feel you are on the edge of something; anxious to move into what God has called you to do – to enter into your promised land? Many…
Raising Ragpickers
The savior in Og Mandino’s “The Greatest Miracle in the World” is a mysterious old man with an affinity for what he calls human rags. In the story Og is the rag-an ambitious, successful magazine publisher who is burning out faster than a single-shot firecracker. The irony is that his magazine is about Success, but…
The End is in SIGHT and a Question about Submitting
I’m almost there! I can see the finish line of my WIP, but will I have the energy to cross it? And when I do will I dare to be satisfied with it! I’m sort of a perfectionist, but I know that one day I’ll have to send it out. In the past I sent…