After 16 hours of traveling, I’m finally in Jerusalem, lying in bed meditating on that little gem. I’d had a perfect opportunity to find out if I can trust God in a difficult time. You know when you’re bone-weary and completely exhausted. You could sleep for a week if you could only nod off, but…
We all have conflict in our lives, right? And when we help friends, it’s often easier for us to see the answer to their problems than our own. In the volatile climate of the Middle East, that didn’t happen. But certain relationships inspired me and shifted my perspective. My initial understanding of the conflict. In…
The other day I hosted my writers’ group and my biggest cheerleader said, “Two of my favorite things about your writing are missing from your website.” Photo by Sydney Sims. As the bottom of my stomach dropped out, I took a deep breath trying to appear casual as I dared to ask, “What’s that?” “The way…
A dream you can’t shake? Going to Israel was like that, even before my faith was important to me. Growing up in church, I’d heard the Bible stories. I wanted to ride a camel and spend time in a cave. And not just any cavern, but one in the Holy Land where all those miracles…
I was just telling a friend, I finished a memoir. Had it edited and through a series of not-so-coincidental, what I think of as God instances, I ended up in New York City at the Writer’s Digest Pitch Slam. There I was on Sixth Avenue, thirty floors up making the rounds of agents and publishers. I had…
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