For years, I’ve tried to convince myself that I’ll memorize Scripture. When I get time. Next week. I’ll print out a Psalm and memorize it. The weeks went by, and the one Psalm I memorized was forgotten. I can’t understand how I memorized pages of poetry in high school and delighted to recite it to […]

Hello, my friends. This month I took a week long trip to visit my sister in Ireland. We took a weekend and visited Paris, France together. I didn’t have much time to write while I was there, but I took a lot of pictures as I walked the streets and museums of both countries. I […]

When I consider time, I find myself in a strange place. I am living a new life (not yet two years old) of wifehood, and, soon to be, motherhood. I write at home, care for a small house, cook for an easygoing husband, and tend (sort of) a tiny garden. Yet I still study my […]

October 2017 New Releases More in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on the ACFW Fiction Finder website. Contemporary Romance: The Secret Life of Sarah Hollenbeck by Bethany Turner — Becoming a Christian is the best and worst thing that has ever happened to Sarah Hollenbeck. Best because, well, that’s obvious. Worst because, up […]

I wrote this guest post for Almost an Author. My thoughts on facing giants and letting God fight the battle.   In the weeks before a conference, my excitement and happy thoughts twist into nervous doubts. What if I get there and no one talks to me? What if I flop all my appointments, or […]