History, Real Life, and Faith
How did you learn to pray? I learned from a Russian Jewish peasant named Tevye. I grew up in a household in which God and religious beliefs were not discussed. The church I attended as a child specialized in formalized prayer–and I learned those because I was interested in God. But I had questions about how to pray–the where and…
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We received an extraordinary gift recently: a writer’s dime. It came from our friend Bill who had given great thought into the gift. As a coin collector, he had heard a story and went in quest of the writer’s dime. When he found it, he brought it and the tale to us. A terrific gift. I wasn’t taking notes as he…
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I’m asked occasionally about the writing life and editors. Today I’m interviewing a friend from both worlds: Becky Miller. Becky Miller and I met ten years ago at Mount Hermon Christian Writer’s Conference when we were in the same critique group (facilitated by the wonderful Gayle Roper). Our eight-member critique group spent four days together discussing each others’ manuscripts–an exhilarating…
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One of my spiritual mentors died on June 15, 2015: Elisabeth Elliot. I first “met” her through books years ago when I was a young wife and before children were added to the chaotic mix of my life. Another Navy wife friend introduced us and I read everything she wrote. She spoke in pragmatic terms through her books, calling me…
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Do society a favor and hire a young person. Look around you. Do you have work that needs doing? Listen to me. Hire a young person to do it. I don’t usually order people around on my blog, but I’m stepping out of my normal to tell the world–young people need jobs and we all need to be looking for…
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While writing my recently released novella, The Sunbonnet Bride, I needed a devastating natural event to occur and so I researched grasshopper plagues, tornadoes and other acts of God. The Sunbonnet Bride is a sequel to my The Yuletide Bride, set in southeastern Nebraska in 1874. The following summer was a grasshopper plague summer and it seemed a perfect catastrophe…
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