Category: Newness of Life
This post helped me win first-place in Kelly Balarie’s Fear Fighting Writing Contest in March 2017. I won a meeting with a literary agent. Thank you to the over 350 people who cast votes for me in the contest!
I used to be haunted by a recurring dream. Running and stumbling in a desert valley at dusk, alone and weary. Desperate to find a hiding place before night settled, but not knowing where to turn. Someone or something was hunting me. Something fierce and deadly. I knew it, but I couldn’t see it. My faceless enemy pursued me and I had to keep running as fast as I could, panting and whimpering all the way.
Childhood fears
Fear was my hunter. The fear of abandonment, in particular. Fear gripped me the day my daddy left when I was four, huddled on my bed and crying, laying the first bricks of protection for the walls in my heart. That fear held on tight for thirty-three more Aprils.
Looking for a new Bible study for the new year? I am thrilled to share my new book with the world! Newness of Life: Trusting God in Times of Transition, will be on sale January 8 as an e-book on Amazon. As a thank-you for reading my blog, I’m offering you a free preview today. Here’s an excerpt from Chapter 1: Life’s Seasons.
Dear friends, I am busy writing this new book to publish on Amazon as an e-book on January 8. I’m diving into the seasons of life in Ecclesiates: planting and harvesting, tearing and mending, silence and speaking, and much more.
This book is all about seeking trust in God’s timing as you weather life’s inevitable changes. I will take a break from blogging this week as I write the book, and I hope you will join me for the online Bible study January 9 – February 3.
What life seasons and changes are you facing this year? Here’s my 2017 list:
