Happy Views Day!
Another installment of my Year of Courageous Acts (exposure to something you may or may not know about me…)
Animal I’d like to have domesticated: Woodchucks/groundhogs
Starting a new month, marching courageously,
Christina
Sometimes people say, “Give me the news. The good, the bad, the ugly.” I’ve begun to update this phrase. Instead of the good, bad, and ugly, I consider the good, different, and unexpected. I find this mental shift unshackles me from limited perceptions. Just because a situation turns out differently than I intended doesn’t make…
Sometimes what I think are profound revelations turn out to be humorous stumbling safer I expose the experience or conversation to paper. Today’s stumbling is brought to you in part by irony, sponsored by the generosity of a reality check (check paid in full)! It’s December as I write this. The intersection of Jesus’s birth…
As I near the publishing birthday of my first FROG books in a series, I celebrate with this excerpt from The Frog Blog: Learning on a Lily Pad (available on Kindle and Amazon). I dedicate it to my soul friend, Elizabeth who courageously practices to live this message every day! I’m reading Pastor Joel Osteen’s…
I consider an optimist as someone who steps in a manure pile and sets off to search for the pony who left a natural trail. Paul represents optimism in 2 Timothy 3. He began this chapter with warnings about last day occurrences. Unforgiveness, abuse, pride, and misguided lovers. He chose to rise above the stench…
In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters (Gen. 1:1-2). As an author, I identify with God’s creation story. In the beginning of each writing project, I sometimes see blank paper as a…
I scheduled this week’s FROG Blog to post while I’m away on a solo silent retreat. When I planned this trip months ago, I hadn’t expected that my latest book, Unthawed: Lessons from a Frozen Lily Pad would release last Friday (July 17th on Amazon and Barnes and Noble). In author world, this “should” be…