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Reflections on Writing with Faith, Joy, and God’s Guidance
As the year draws to a close, it’s natural for writers to look back on the words we’ve written, including the ones we never quite managed to put on the page. Reflection is more than a tally of productivity. It’s a sacred pause — a moment to notice where God has met us in the creative process,...
Savoring Psalm 34:8 – O Taste and See
Savoring Psalm 34:8 Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. King James Version Open your mouth and taste, open your eyes and see—how good God is. The Message Let's savor God's goodness as we see, hear, taste, touch, and smell the surprises He has crafted into the world His...
Saints Around Us
In a week that holds All Hallows’ Eve and All Saints’ Day, it's a good time to pause and reflect on those who have gone on before us. Whenever I come to this week of the year, I think of Hebrews 11. This “Saints Hall of Fame” features some who are quite famous, known by their bold following...
Where Words and Creation Meet
Stepping outside the front door, God invites us to notice His handiwork, remember our encounters with Him in His creation, and enjoy His presence in His studio. He offers Himself wherever we turn. What’s just outside your four walls? This evening, the moon greeted me as it said goodbye to the...
Behold Creation: Finding the Divine Artist in Nature
Artist Studio tours fascinate me. Wandering around the creative playground of makers intrigues and inspires. Visiting an artist’s workspace expands one's enjoyment and understanding of the beauty and wonder created in that place. To understand the art, it’s helpful to understand the artist, yet...
6 Steps of Discernment for Creative Endeavors
When the grandchildren come over, whether locally or from afar, I’m always curious about what they will choose to play with during the visit. What will they gravitate towards? What gears are turning in their brains that light up ideas that lead to the choice of the play they enter? What catches...
A Season of Decisions: Listening for God in Every Invitation
As summer winds down, autumn winds up. We step into the new season, and suddenly, many decisions crop up as invitations appear at every junction. They shout at me from across the computer screen. They whisper a friendly hello and a greeting in my physical mailbox. For you, the biddings may...
Writing with Vision: Visual Imagery Brings Your Words to Life
I walk up to the receptionist’s window. Bright cartoon stickers greet the eye everywhere I glance. I observe that I’m the only adult strabismus patient in the room. The journey to this waiting room, where there are more well-loved toys than dog-eared magazines, and more tears and laughter than...
Living in Mystery Amid Mundane
How to live in Mystery amid the mundane stirs my curiosity when I read the works of Catherine of Genoa. Her words strike chords so deep. Have you experienced shimmering beauty or known profound pain that leaves you completely speechless? That’s the way I feel in response to her ponderings....
Step into Your Calling as a Writer
What a Book Coach & Editor and Spiritual Director learned about Resistance and how that might help your calling as a Writer “Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.” - St. Catherine of Siena The Gift of Words and the Call to Listen I delight in words. As...
Beholding Spiritual Freedom: A Mid-Year Examen
As we enjoy the month when the 4th of July greets us, freedom is a primary theme. Just look around. Flags flutter in the summer breeze, displays of patriotic red, white, and blue. Symbolic colors of freedom pop up everywhere. Signs proclaim: “Let freedom ring. Home of the free and the land of...
Grounding Grief in Memory and Prayer
How do we hold grief and loss amid a tragedy? The rage of a river, flash floods in Texas over the Fourth of July, unleashes a rage of questions, groans, and grief, doesn’t it? I remember a discussion once about reading the Bible and the culture & its news as a basic approach to our...
