If you’ve ever relocated, you know how the experience dislocates us from past routines, identities, and spiritual practices. We humans are creatures of habit and community. As we establish patterns of life, the longer we do them, the deeper grows …
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To interact with this post at Seriously Write, click HERE. Dear writer, don’t despise your humble beginnings, whether these include your level of education, the size of your community, or the poor and simple family life from which you emerged. …
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To interact with this post, go to Seriously Write. If you’ve seen the motion picture Groundhog Day, you know that the main character, a pompous, arrogant, and recalcitrant newscaster, gets stuck in a time loop in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, at the …
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I wanted to arrive in Texas with lots of money, to finally attain my flawed Americanized vision of what a “mature” believer should look like – comfortable and complacent in my financial planning. These desires should have tipped me off. …
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To interact with today’s post, go to SeriouslyWrite. Today everything we own is being loaded into a truck to be hauled away. Strong men with burly arms heave our earthly possessions out the front door, up a gangplank, and into …
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To engage with this article, go to Seriously Write. This Labor Day weekend I’m going to be controversial. I encourage you to follow God’s leading for your writing career, even if it deviates from the expectations of others and even …
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Days will come when everyone will let you down. We are far too complex for it to be any other way. We are created in the image of God, immortal souls, and our needs can only be fully met by …
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This post appears on Seriously Write. Click here to interact there. Never in my life did I ever want to have anything to do with XLS files. My idea of an Excel spreadsheet was entirely aesthetic. I liked the neat …
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This is one of my favorite holidays. The man we call Saint Patrick came to Ireland and changed everything. He was born into a Christian family on the northern frontier of Roman-ruled Britain, possibly in the year 415 (dates differ). …
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To engage with this post, visit Seriously Write. Published authors advise new writers to enjoy the pre-publication stage of their writing journey. We tell them to write as many stories as possible while waiting and querying, so they have a …
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