“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” (From “New Colossus” by Emma …
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My upcoming novel Fallen recreates the human story of the beginning. In Eden all was light, love, and harmony. But, through Adam’s disobedience, we now experience sin, suffering, and senseless violence, for we are all now sinners. People pick up …
Continue Reading →If you’ve been writing, editing, attending workshops, and refining your craft, and yet you still haven’t been published, let go of impatience, trust God, and try to relax and enjoy where you are. At this moment in time, you can …
Continue Reading →Introducing Melinda: Blog #3 It’s still tornado season in Oklahoma. Time for the winds to come sweeping down the plain. Tornados impacted my life, because I was raised in Wakita, Oklahoma, a small town on the northern-Oklahoma prairie, the tornado …
Continue Reading →Learning to Love, Part 6, an encore post from 2014: Visionaries and tacticians make powerful teams. Someone must imagine the plan, envision the dream, and speak it into being. Then the other must organize the troops, draw up the plans, …
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Learning to Love, Part 5 The definition of the Greek word agape (benevolent and selfless love) gives us theological information, but what do we do with it? How do we live it? Jesus showed us. He lived it. We are to …
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Learning to Love, Part 4 “Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at …
Continue Reading →Learning to Love, Part 3 – To read at Seriously Write CLICK. As Christians writers, we have a war within ourselves. Creativity can demand almost idolatrous obedience. We can worship our words, our writerly needs, and our artistic process. Simultaneously, …
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Lessons in Love, Part 2 In my younger days, I thought I understood unconditional love. Then God gave me a powerful lesson. He blessed me with children, people I love more deeply than I’d ever before thought possible. Love is …
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Lessons in Love, Part 1 I thought I was pretty good at loving people. I care about injustice. I strive for equality. I love my family and my husband. I serve in the prison. I care for the kids at …
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