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6′ of Hope
That’s me in the blue sweatshirt, hugging my friend Alison, just a few weeks after they diagnosed her 5 year old daughter with leukemia. Her world has been upside down and social distancing since Christmas. The rest of the world is catching up with the understanding that our germs might harm someone else who can’t handle them. I’m a hugger, and the thought of not hugging people anymore is really making me so sad. I was honestly having a hard time this afternoon and got a little weepy. It made me think about the studies they did with orphan babes and how the ones that had little to no human…
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Don’t Panic
I began writing this post way back in September just before my 42nd birthday. Those of you familiar with the science fiction novel “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams, will understand the significance of 42, which according to Adams is, “the answer to the question of life, the universe, and everything.” But what is the question? For me, it was never about the fear of “40.” I was glad to be 40 because I knew I would soon be 42. My nerdy heart swelled. But now I’ve been 42 for a few months, and I’m still trying to figure out how I feel about it. “Don’t Panic!”…
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Reflection: On Fear and Fiction
It’s been a while since I’ve posted on the blog but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been writing. After devotional blogging through the Fruit of the Spirit this summer I decided to focus on fiction. In October I reviewed some of my favorite classic Christian fiction, Hinds’ Feet on High Places, Redeeming Love, and Pilgrim’s Progress, in preparation to participate in National Novel Writing Month. Since the mid 90’s NaNoWriMo has grown from a group of friends writing in a cafe to an international community of thousands of writers who participate in writing a novel (at least 50,000 words) in the month of November. I’ve been wanting to write fiction for a…
