Note: As part of my work with Stories to Tell, I’m starting a series of blog posts about the writing and publishing of my next book. I’ll still be posting about other topics as well, but this will be an ongoing story over the next year. This is a new kind of writing for me as …
“How does this come out of you?” This question was put to me by a friend who had bought my latest book, In the Wild Places. After reading it, she then called me and asked if she could come by and buy my other three books to read. Of course I invited her over and …
Soul Talk. If it wasn’t already the name of a great radio show, I would have to steal the title for my next book. Instead, I was invited to be a guest on the show so they get to keep their name and I’ll come up with another intriguing and deep title by which everyone …
It seems fitting I pick up this blog again while riding a train. All throughout my time in Europe, train time was my space, my rest, time to think, relax, just be. My best writing comes out of my be space. I loved it. Traveling by train is my favorite form of transportation and such …
This is just too good of a story not to tell. It’s a story about how God answers the unasked prayers we never think to pray in shocking ways. I’m still grinning. The story starts a week ago on my birthday. I was meeting up with my mom to celebrate when she told me about …
Once I was seated on the plane during my first leg of the trip, it didn’t take me long to pull out a book to read. I had been looking forward to that moment for two months. Well, I would have been looking forward to it if I’d had the time. I was so intensely …
Last winter I wrote five lessons on the Psalms for Barclay Press’ “Adult Friend”, a quarterly Bible study they edit and publish for classes and Bible studies around the United States. Delving deep into these Psalms was a joy. Exploring and searching them out for the reader and for myself was an experience that rooted my soul into …
Between the blogging panel, the Writing as Prayer workshop, and all the events for the book, I haven’t had much time to post on here. However, things have slowed down now and while I listen to this workshop, Poetry as Ministry which right now feels like balm to my soul, I’m going to post pictures …
I admit, I’ve been terrible about blogging lately. I need to read my own post on margins because right now, I don’t have any and blogging slipped off the pile. What writing time I have had, has been devoted to e-mailing. But I am going to make it up to you all with a couple …
I think it is high time to give you all a general update on some things I’ve mentioned here on the blog. Quaker Youth Book Project: We are currently working on the cover art and looking through the final manuscript before it goes to print to be officially released in late April of this year. …
