Do you remember when you were young and people asked what you’d like to be when you grew up? Maybe a firefighter or a teacher. Or, if you were me, you decided to be a pediatric surgeon. (I even stuck with it from age 5 until college, when I realized that medical school was cost-prohibitive […]
He is jealous for me, Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree, Bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy. When all of a sudden, I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory, And I realize just how beautiful You are, And how great Your affections are for me. And oh, how […]
Last week, Lindsay Nobles did a feature on her blog around the song “How He Loves.” Lindsay spoke specifically about the version of the song by the songwriter, John Mark McMillan, but when I think of this song, I think of the David Crowder Band version. The blog and the comments it generated really interested […]
If you’ve been around here for about five minutes, you’ve heard me talk about things I’ve learned through dealing with and recovering from Hurricane Ike. I’m even writing a book, Ike 101: Life Lessons I Learned from a Hurricane and How You Can Recover from the Storms in Your Life and sending it out to […]
At the church I recently began attending, we take part in a congregational response time before communion. Last week, one of the lines quite literally almost knocked me over as I stood there in the candlelit room, repeating in chorus with the worshippers around me. We are guilty of coming to your table without understanding […]
Last week, I fought the battle of Stuck Like a Duck. My lofty goal is to finish all of Language of Love–including edits by the end of July so that I am ready to start querying agents on August 1. That means 1,000 words a day. One thousand. If I’m in the zone, I can […]
My friend, Kathleen Y’Barbo, is celebrating the release of her latest book, Anna Finch and the Hired Gun. The good folks at WaterBrook Multnomah, her publisher, have gotten in on the fun too…and they want us to join the party! Between now and July 19th, you can register for an awesome totally Texan prize pack. […]
One of the reasons I began writing Ike 101: Life Lessons I Learned from a Hurricane and How You Can Recover from the Storms in Your Life was to share the life lessons God impressed upon me while I dealt with Hurricane Ike. I realized that while not everyone gets the “blessing” of going through a hurricane, everyone must […]
Kristen’s Note: I’m STILL waiting on AT&T to finish their new install project in my community, so I am still about to die without Internet access except on my phone. It’s possible I will try to usher in an era of thumb-typing in the blogosphere next week. But for now, I have mooched my husband’s […]
For our inaugural edition of Friend Friday, I am so glad to introduce a fellow Texas author, Cathy Bryant. A Texas gal by birth, Cathy Bryant lives in a century-old Texas farmhouse with her husband and a phobia-ridden cat. Her debut novel, TEXAS ROADS, was a 2009 ACFW Genesis finalist. You can learn more at http://www.CatBryant.com. […]
