It happened just as I was waking up. An audible voice inside my head clearly said, “Follow the last instruction”. I wasn’t quite fully awake, and I wondered if I was still dreaming, still dozing as I listened to the still, small voice. Follow the last instruction? What did that mean? It made absolutely no …
Author Archives: Wendy Parker
I Have Had A Dream: Time to Step Out Of The Winepress
It’s no good pretending. I see you. Yes you, acting like you don’t know what I’m talking about because you have stuffed that dream of yours so far down your to-do list you’ve forgotten what it looks like. You believe you’ve screwed up way too many times in the past to ever be used by …
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Don’t Let Your Dogged Determination Get Derailed.
So, you’ve answered the call to adventure, you stepped out in faith, and you’ve told fear to go take a hike. But the steep and winding path toward your dream that was lit up in the first few steps so you could read each signpost now seems to have suddenly gone dark and you feel …
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Stick To The Plan
And so, this is what happened… Sounds like the start of a movie. But Matthew chapter 26 begins with these words that lead to Jesus prophesying His crucifixion. Now that He had taught and equipped His disciples with everything they needed to know, He knows He must now surrender to the final act that is …
Cracked Pots. Holding The Transcendent Character Of God.
Why are we so afraid to show people our wounds? Probably because we don’t want to feel the shame of what they will say if we opened up and revealed our chipped jars and cracks in our pots. So, we chose to keep our broken hearts under wraps because we know that the weight of …
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Heavenly Motion
Apart from seeing my family and a long overdue trip to the hairdressers, I am looking forward to going into a library again. You may smile, but as a writer, seeing hundreds of books that are filled with unread words and unseen adventures is a happy place for me. There is something about all those …
A Significant Influence
You have significant influence, and you can create an atmosphere for God to work in. Believe it or not, God is not looking for people with star quality and the biggest following on Instagram. He seeks out the willing heart who just wants to shine His light in whatever circumstance they find themselves in. Creating …
Not At This Address
As I read the phone text from my literary agent that another publishing house had decided not to go with my book proposal, my mind instantly went to a quote by Barbara Kingsolver that I had written down a few months before. “This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is …
The Interim Of Greatness.
Greatness is one of those elusive things in life that can leave as quickly as it came. It only rests on a person for an allotted time and then it is gone again. The interim of greatness reminds us that it’s only provisional and the length of time you can walk in that greatness all …
Finding Your Worth In Print
Let’s face it, as writers, we all struggle from time to time with self-doubt. No, scrap that. We writers struggle daily with self-doubt! What fuels these thoughts, this knack to go down a rabbit hole within our thinking, is that we believe only real writers have their names printed on the cover of a book. …