There’s a bonus to participating in a writer’s critique group: you get to cheer when members of the group move from the unpublished to the published category. Such is the status for Stephanie McCall. It seems like yesterday she submitted a WIP (work in progress) for us to review. Today, I’m reviewing it as her…
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Sabbath Sunday: Ever-Present
God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. -Psalm 46, NIV My amateur nature picture of the Green Mountains and Lake Champlain, Burlington, Vermont. Trust Him…
Character Confession: Rehearsing for a Play that Will Never Open
When people are skeptical about Christ’s ability to transform people today, I want to bring in people from my childhood to display as my Exhibit A. I was a wounded, angry child and my mouth was often far ahead of my brain. If I couldn’t say it in person, well I did the next best…
Re-Writing the Evil Step-Mom Story
Earlier this week I was blessed to have my step-mom experience shared with Rebecca’s blog Among Friends: The Ties That Bond Us. If you’re in a blended family I encourage you to take the time to read. Our family is proof that the step-family story doesn’t have to be a tragedy. Read my…
Book Review: Once Upon a Prince by Rachel Hauck
I love to lead the John and Stasi Eldredge study Captivating for women. One of the trademarks created in girls is to long to hear they are lovely. To swoon over a romance while twirling their skirts. And every time I teach it, the ladies sigh with me as we remember our favorite books and…
COTT: Captured by Moonlight by Christine Lindsay
CAPTURED BY MOONLIGHT Prisoners to their own broken dreams… After a daring rescue goes awry, the parched north of India grows too hot for nurse Laine Harkness and her friend Eshana. The women flee to the tropical south…and run headlong into their respective pasts. Laine takes a new nursing position at a plantation…