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....

“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...

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...

“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...

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...

  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...