Better Than Fiction Guest Post: Tricia Goyer
Please join me in welcoming author Tricia Goyer to the blog today. Following are Even in horrific events such as the Titanic disaster amazing stories emerge. Stories of heroics, stories of survival, and even stories of love. There were over a dozen newly married couples on board the grand ship, and many more couples who were impacted by the tragedy. Among those are these touching stories of love. { John and Nelle Snyder } John and Nelle Snyder, first-class passengers, were...
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I hosted my very first Facebook giveaway this week. If you entered, thank you so much for stopping by! I used random.org to choose a winner off of the list of entrants. And the winner of an Adavance Reader Copy of Be Still My Soul by Joanne Bischof is… Libbi Hartwig!! Libbi, I’ll e-mail you with more information. And if you didn’t win this time, be sure to stay tuned to the Hope Chronicles Event for a chance to win another copy— and lots of other prizes, too. Not to mention the hope we desire to weave into...
read moreAnd the winner is…
I hosted my very first Facebook giveaway this week. If you entered, thank you so much for stopping by! I used random.org to choose a winner off of the list of entrants. And the winner of an Adavance Reader Copy of Be Still My Soul by Joanne Bischof is… Libbi Hartwig!! And if you didn’t win this time, be sure to stay tuned to the Hope Chronicles Event for a chance to win another copy— and lots of other prizes, too. Not to mention the hope we desire to weave into your days through the event and the lead-up....
read moreOnly One Thing.
“What’s your life like these days?” I asked online yesterday. “I want to know. …I’m mulling over tomorrow’s blog post. My hope is for my blog to be a haven for you, a refuge of sorts. To that end, I want to know how best I can meet you where you are in life right now. So… in a word or a phrase, what’s your life like right now?” First of all, silly me. I can’t create a haven, meet you where you are. But I can point to the One who will, and I pray He’ll be present in these words today. Second of all, here are the...
read moreWeary Ones: He Sees You. And He’s Weaving.
Wednesday is half-gone, and I’m only now posting Wednesday’s blog. It’s a threadbare day. And I’m rejoicing in that. Here’s why… This post was originally going to be called “Patchwork Summer” and talk all about the little pockets of peace God has given along the way and stitched together to wrap me in. I was going to tell you all about how we’re in a season where conventional summer getaways and such haven’t been feasible, but how God’s allowed us to snatch moments together wherever we could,...
read moreBetter Than Fiction Guest Post: Hillari Delgado, “Trust and Faith”
“We could never so have loved, had we not sorrowed together, and together found peace and joy in believing.” ~Honoria Lawrence When I read that quote from today’s real-life heroine, I loved Honoria. How real, how honest, how hopeful in her perspective of the tribulations she and her husband faced in their journey, side-by-side. My friend Hillari Delgado returns to us today with the story of Honoria and Henry Lawrence. She has encapsulated two remarkable lives in less than 800 words… no small feat. Once you see her...
read moreOf Molecules and Cathedrals… and Us, Too.
I’m sitting here at 10:30 p.m., dancing around the blog post on my mind. It’s about molecules. It all began with a song. And it has to do with you. Side note: you should perhaps be worried. I, who haven’t tampered with molecules since Freshman year of college, am about to give you a science lesson. Commence Lesson: Atoms make up molecules Molecules make up material Materials make up things like cathedrals and third-world missions. Pause lesson. Let me back up. It all began in the car today, when Toby...
read moreBetter Than Fiction Guest Post: Erin MacPherson, “Smudged Ink and Fish Factories”
It’s a pure delight to introduce you to today’s guest, Erin MacPherson. She was one of the very first to welcome me to the Books and Such family, and since that time I’ve been grateful for her prayers and writing accountability along the way. A warmer, more giving person you’ll not meet, which is why I am particularly thankful for her story today. As she points out early on, without this story, we’d have no Erin! …Let’s not think about that. Erin and I swapped guest posts this week, and I have no...
read moreWhen the Words Are Choked Away, It’s Good.
What kind of crier are you? Do you sob? Snivel? Weep? Me—I’d like to think I’m a *solitary tear down the cheek, graceful sniffles* sort. But… I’m not. When I cry, there is lip-biting/trembling. Followed by voice-wavering. Which unleashes the waterworks that I’m still trying to hold back so they come out in a tug-o-war, and land in snot smudges on my sleeve. Contorted muscles in my face try but fail to hold it back, setting my being to muted writhing. …Yep. That’s about right. Contorted facial muscles and...
read moreBetter Than Fiction Guest Post: Keli Gwyn, “A Shotgun Wedding”
Four months ago, this conversation happened: That was my first encounter with the wonderful Keli Gwyn. Who knows what angsty thing I tweeted (let’s hope not too angsty) to curry such compassion, but I do remember that Keli’s generous encouragement in my Twitter inbox was such an unexpected blessing. To have someone on the brink of their novel debut reach out to me as I waded through my first major re-write was inspiring. Fast forward to the present: I have now had the pleasure of discovering that Keli has impeccable taste...
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