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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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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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 …
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
What story are you telling yourself? I’m here to give you the inside scoop on a small detail in the plot of your story you’ve probably overlooked because the long and short of it is, the story you’ve been telling yourself may need some editing if you’re going to fulfil the calling and destiny on …
