Encouragement
Midweek Motivation
Start Your Day out Right! Scripture, Short Devotion For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame…
Life…Interrupted
So often we think we have things under control. Life is going along fine. Then it happens, that one thing you never expected. Or, you saw it coming, but the magnitude far outreaches what you imagined. Is God there? What is He thinking? How can I get through this? My greatest challenge these days is…
Weaving Through the Setbacks
My blog is gone. I’d uploaded a database backup plug-in, and upon activation, good-bye blog. Ironic, isn’t it? I can only hope it’s retrievable. One year of blogging gone forever. Last night in between preparing cheese sauce and broccoli, a toddler wound around my leg, and a terrific thunderstorm, I wondered what God could possibly…
Midweek Motivation
Start Your Day out Right! Scripture, Short DevotionStop! Get your Bible. Open it to the Gospel of John. Read Chapter 1:1-18.The Gospel of John may be my all-time favourite piece of literature. It’s everything: a novel, a factual account, and a screenplay that runs in my mind. It’s shifting, panoramic scenes begin with one of…
I’ll Win It For You
The game was tight. Archrivals had faced off for three and a half periods in a seesaw battle that was going down to the wire. As the clock ticked down, the two sides traded the lead back and forth. Neither could be assured of victory because with the game so close, anything could happen. From…
Rest is not a four-letter word…
So… how are those New Year’s resolutions panning out? You know, the resolution to write 3000 words a day, spend a couple hours sending out queries, update your website and cap off the day by posting an insightful entry on your blog . To be honest… whether the reason stems from feeling overwhelmed with a…
Midweek Motivation
Start Your Day out Right Scripture, Short Devotion If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, And the light around me will be night,” Even the darkness is not dark to Thee, And the night is as bright as the day…Psalm 139:11-12 My computer Bible has a note beside this passage that the word…
Being Published vs. Being a Good Writer
I’ve been thinking about being published. Not in my usual way of being anxious and overly driven, but in a way that’s made me wonder what my first published novel will be like. Will it be gripping like Mary DeMuth’s first novel, Watching the Tree Limbs, which kept me turning the page with Mara’s unique…
Shoutlife and Writer…Interrupted Forums
I’d been hearing a lot of buzz about something called Shoutlife. A networking community for Christian writers, sort of like My Space but with out the weirdos and questionable subject matter. I clicked on over a couple of times, trying to figure out what the big hype was about, and I just didn’t get it.…