To every thing there is a season, and a time for every purpose under the heaven… Ecclesiastes 3:1 With my oldest child about to graduate from college and the youngest from high school, this past school year has been a season of lasts. They’ve already had their last … Marching band event College Christmas concert High school holiday concert Jazz …
Uncomfortable Praise
Since announcing my contract signing with Winslet Press, I’ve been flooded with congratulatory emails, phone calls, notes, hugs, etc. Needless to say, it’s been pretty wonderful. But along the way, a few compliments have made me uncomfortable, not because what they said was bad. No, just the opposite. Their praise *felt* too good, describing me as persevering, faithful. Certainly they described …
The Reason We Sing
Thank you! Those two words seem inadequate, but I doubt additional words would say it better, so I simply say, Thank You! Thank you, readers, for the overwhelming response to my post this past Tuesday. So many came running to help me–a nobody, really. Someone just singing the song God gave them to sing. It always amazes me when people …
Happy Thanksgiving!
Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth. Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise …
A Thread of Hope
This past weekend I received one more “No” to add to my Rejection Collection. (sigh) It’s never easy to hear no when your dreams are attached to it, even though it was a very kind no, and it did offer a thread of hope. But on that day, the thread seemed awfully weak and appeared to be fraying. So, I …
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