Category: writing
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5 Truths to Encourage You if You’re Feeling Like a Failure
If you feel like a failure though you’re giving it your all, these five spiritual truths will encourage your heart and direct your steps.
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Out of All the Memories I Could Keep, This Was the One
People who knew my mother tell me I remind them of my mother — in my looks, my mannerisms, and in the way I speak. This mark was one more way I was like her.
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If Your Full Potential Brings Him Glory, What’s Holding You Back?
Maybe writing words isn’t your thing. But however you’re living your life, you should consider that you’re continuing His story. We’re all writing something whether you know it or not.
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A Book Review: Farm to Film
Farm to Film is not a collection of photographs but, rather, a collection of moments, captured by a camera and then transferred into beautiful watercolors.
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Back When I First Taught Book Publishing, I Tried It Myself First
When I taught writing to a group of 20 homeschoolers, our final project was to write and illustrate our own books. Because those who teach also must do, I did my own. This is my first book — about my experience with laser surgery. It was a funny, painful experience.
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Answer His Call
A reminder that whom God calls, He equips. Stand strong against the spiritual wind and waves that threaten, knowing that God has already won the battle.
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Before You Can ‘Trust and Obey’ You Must Listen When God Whispers — How?
“I am training you to listen and act so that I can co-create with you as we write.” That’s what I heard God say to me.
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This Is Why You Should Do Everything As If You Were Doing It for Jesus
Only God could orchestrate a chance encounter that would bless my grandson and encourage my writer’s heart, too.
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How Writing a Book Is Like Birthing a Baby at 90
I am avoiding my Isaac. That’s the working title for my first novel. Why Isaac? Indeed. Why not Ishmael?
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What Must You Conquer to ‘Possess the Land’ God Has Promised You?
Caleb had audacious faith. Faith enough to silence the naysayers all around him. Faith that God could win the battle for a prize piece of land.
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To Read or Not to Read Isn’t the Question. Will You Engage?
Just as those in Jesus’ parables looked for something that was theirs, I am looking for you. Are you my reader?
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If Your Message Is Important, Shouldn’t You Reach As Many As Possible?
The Shepherd left the 99 to search for the 1 missing sheep. Yes, “the one” tells us how much the Shepherd cares. But the key to that parable isn’t the number of sheep He went to find.
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Podcast With Sara Dagen: The Power of a Good Question
In this blog post, I share a podcast episode in which FlourishWriter Founder Mindy Kiker interviewed me. It includes a question that changed my life.
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This Is Why You Should Make Small Moves in the Right Direction
Have you ever felt stuck? Unable to move forward? An experience at a traffic light moved me into gear so I could get this body in motion.
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This Is How Planning Can Give You Freedom
Creating goals and action steps makes me realize that I can best number my days by numbering my hours. I’m trying to live them with intention, which requires planning.
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How Writing Is Like Offering Wine at a Tasting
Sharing your writing is like offering your heart as wine at a wine-tasting event. You may have people gathered, but your wine is one in a million (or five or thirty) – and not in a good way.
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Obstacles Can Confirm You’re on the Right Path
I had wanted to attend that virtual retreat. I felt doing so was to protect the call of God in my life. I think Satan thought so too – and so he did everything in his power to prevent me from attending.
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Finding Your Vision Might Start with Finding Your Word
My search for a vision for my writing life in 2021 is starting with my word of the year: satisfied. Why? Because God alone can satisfy. I need to live that.
All Things Work Together 