Bleed
I found the following quote on pinterest: “There is nothing to writing… all you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” -Ernest Hemingway Sometimes words soothe, they settled into my heart because...
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Psalm 18:16 He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he drew me out of deep waters. Sometimes, I feel like I am drifting into deep waters. I wake in the earliest morning hours, …...
View ArticleYou Take His Breath Away
I am good at hiding. During summer camp orientation, I first met my husband Kris. He was playing a pole in a skit, and my eyes kept getting stuck to his. The first week of camp he was my prayer …...
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On my college campus lived an arboretum. I always choose a blue bench in the very back of the west side. The bench waited for me, never was it occupied. I sat for hours between classes: doing homework,...
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The miles of built up ice began to separate last weekend. Thousands of pieces shifted and began to float down the channel from Lake Michigan to the inland Lake Macatawa. They crackled under the...
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(Kristine, me, Amelia, Amy) This weekend I attended Breathe Christian Writers Conference in Grand Rapids. My dear Amy Sullivan (newly published!) trekked all the way from North Carolina. I met the...
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