They come, and they go. Watching adult children leave (again) is much more difficult than when you first received them from the Lord so tiny and new. You were assaulted by love then, initiated into a passionate and protective love that …
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This week the location of my happiest childhood memories went up in smoke. My grandma’s house was consumed by flames. A house fire claimed it all. I was nurtured by one of the best grandmas around and a cadre of …
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I am an author. I flesh out my storyline with characters who live and breathe and move in my head. When I’m working on a biblical fiction story, the framework is provided. I must invent people who could commit those …
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The manuscript is ready. I’m sending it in today. The final edit is complete. Off it goes to my editor at Koehler Books. He will now take a whack at it. With sadness, I leave the imaginary world I’ve immersed …
Continue Reading →“O Lord, you have examined my heart and know everything about me” (Ps. 139:1 NLT). God sees each one of us at our very core, for better or for worse, and seeing all, he holds out his hand, offering forgiveness, …
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(Six years ago, when I penned this, a school shooting occurred during the Christmas season at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut.) This year, I wanted to write about warm Christmas memories and stockings hung by cozy fireplaces, but then …
Continue Reading →You max out the credit card. Online gambling is your vice. Tiring of it, you hit Vegas and Reno. You live high. You shoot the dice. You indulge in immorality, charging it all. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, …
Continue Reading →As a follower of Christ, your testimony is powerful. It is the story of a changed life. You are not what you once were. Your life is in the process of being altered and transformed. You’re being remade into the …
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“You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay …
Continue Reading →A new day is dawning. My new website is up! You may have arrived here by entering the address for my blog site: Writing for the Glory of God. You’ve been redirected. I’m still writing for God’s glory. That will never …
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