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·Apr 25

Don’t Wait for a Safe Place to Jump

Do you remember the first time you flung yourself off a diving board into the school or community swimming pool? Did you hesitate for just a moment, trying to find or regain your balance? Trying to grab onto a feeling of safety and security before you took the leap? You…

Writing Life

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·Apr 23

Writing About Your Kind of Hell Could Help Someone Else Get Through Theirs

“You know, we do live in ludicrous ignorance of each other. I mean, we usually don’t know the things we’d like to know even about our supposedly closest friends. I mean, suppose you’re going through some kind of hell in your own life. Well, you would love to know if…

Christianity

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Writing About Your Kind of Hell Could Help Someone Else Get Through Theirs

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·Apr 22

Anxiety Is a Necessary Part of the Writing Process

Anxiety is a necessary part of the writing process. Read that again. Better yet? Read this quote: “Anxiety is not only an inevitable part of the writing process but a necessary part. If you’re not scared, you’re not writing. “ Ralph Keyes Since signing a book contract with Elk Lake…

Christianity

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Anxiety Is a Necessary Part of the Writing Process

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·Apr 22

The Miracle of Just Enough

Fixed meatloaf for church Bible Study yesterday. I made just enough for 12 because that’s usually the maximum number of people who attend. When I walked in the building, I saw 15 people present. So, I prayed. “God, remember what You did with the loaves and the fishes? Yeah. …

Short Form

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·Apr 21

Writing a Memoir Is Like Surgery for Your Soul

A couple of years ago, I started writing a memoir. Talk about writing dangerously. There is nothing more terrifying than sitting down and writing something about what other people did to you. Or what you did to other people. …

Memoir

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·Apr 20

Writing Is More Than a Hobby

“Writing is not a hobby. Collecting stamps or coins is a hobby. Writing is a calling.” Barbara Abercrombie, A Year of Writing Dangerously For a long time, I treated writing as a hobby. I have some other hobbies-reading, making beaded jewelry, and singing being some of them. Writing is different. …

Writing

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·Apr 19

Celebrate When You Start a New Book

“The date you begin writing, or start a new book, should be memorable, like a wedding date or a birthday.” Barbara Abercrombie, A Year of Writing Dangerously I don’t always remember dates “Do you remember the day Jesus saved you?” my pastor often asks. “If not, you may not be saved.” I don’t remember. Not…

Writing

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·Apr 19

Writing Is Not a Safe Journey

Something recently happened in my life to remind me that writing is not a safe journey. I signed a book contract with Elk Lake Publishing, which is amazing and wonderful … And terrifying. Because as I started going over my manuscript again in preparation to send it to the editor…

Writing Life

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·Apr 18

The First Gospel Preacher Was a Woman

On that Sunday morning, long ago, the men who followed Jesus were in hiding. The women braved the Roman soldiers to go to the tomb and found Him gone, and then they went to go get the men. Let’s not forget a woman was the first gospel preacher, commissioned by…

Relationships

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·Apr 18