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It’s been a week, America. Walmart. Immigrants. It's been a week. . What stood out to me this week were certain details of these stories that, while mentioned in the media, were presented as sideline facts rather than something to be HEARD, something to be absorbed. . An unstable young man shows up at a Missouri Walmart with hundreds of rounds of ammunition – and an off-duty fireman literally saved the lives of who knows how many people by restraining him. . Hundreds of Mississippi children came home from school to find their (allegedly or actually) undocumented parents gone – and dozens of community members stepped up to provide for their physical and emotional needs in the chaos. . I firmly believe those pieces were divinely woven into these stories for a reason. They are a prompt. Well-placed beacons. Intentionally stoked embers. . They are a call for this generation to rise up, and it inspires me to be among those who choose to stand. . Not AGAINST something, but NEXT TO someone. To serve needs when (not if) human depravity and sin nature roar and gnash. . I’m inspired to lay down my own desires, wants, resources, time, fame, opinion – and be the friend someone needs. Someone I’m confident I will one day need. . How can I be the off-duty firefighter saying, “Not today”? . How can I be the community member who invites a hurting child into a safe place? . When hate springs from a heart caged in sin, I desire to pour out sacrificial love from this freed and transformed heart. . When the time comes, may God find me being a friend. . . . . #compassion #bethefriendyouwishyouhad #beafriend #godbewithus #livinghope

I go through a lot of prayer journals, and I regret nothing about that. On average I fill two a year. . Nothing invites me more into worship than a fresh journal, the pages eagerly awaiting their part of my story. . These books contain the arc of my character development in Christ. My plot twists. My victories and failures. My pleas and praises. My very heart and soul. . They are my safe place for confession, and my sacred space for trying on the words of God. . These are the books I write for an audience of One. . Whatever else He may lead me to pen, these are by far my most fruitful works. . . . . . . #journaling #womanoffaith #amwriting #christianwriters #jesusistheway

Unbelievably it has taken me THIS long to figure out that #writing at my local @johnsoncountypubliclibrary should be a thing in my life. Now I ❤️ this place even more. Thanks, Antioch Branch, for creating a quiet, tucked-away spot with comfy chairs, plentiful outfits and creativity-inspiring ambiance. See you again soon! 👩🏻‍💻 .. #nanowrimo #comewritein #writersoﬁg #librariesofinstagram

The $25 birthday gift card was enough to get me in @barnesandnoble but not enough to get me out without spending almost as much. Also, iced tea at the cafe. Natch. 📚💸 #newbooksmell #bookstore #bookhaul #birthdaysareforbooks

Taking a night off of #writing to recoup before getting into the #editing process. This seems to be the best use of my time. ☺️👩‍👧 As tempted as I am to keep creating, keep working, keep producing, keep chasing down the goal I have for this work-in-progress, rest is essential to the creative process. God, the Great Creator, called his rest "holy." And he commands -- and invites -- us into periods of holy rest from the work he has set before us. For a reason. Rest is proof we trust God with this work. Rest draws us into greater surrender. Rest is worship. Rest is a gift. So give me one night of all the cheapy face masks and fingernail polish and cake pops, and I will be one joyful, faithful creative tomorrow. ✍🏻✍🏻 How do you take rest and find rejuvenation?

Here I raise my Ebenezer!! 🎉💓 I have COMPLETED my next #novel manuscript!! 🎉 Do you see the joy all over my face? Do you see the praise and uplifted hands of victory? 🙌 Oh, friends. I have prayed over these written words more than any others I have penned. I have filled this room with petitions before I ever filled a new page. I have spent time with my face to the floor in surrender. 🙏 I have spent the last 6 months bringing this seed of an idea into living, breathing story. And I have battled more of the enemy's schemes in the last 6 months than at any other time IN MY LIFE. To his arrows, I lifted the shield of Scripture. To his insidious whispers I surrounded myself with song. I stood under his towering beasts and made him regret the day he sent his legions my way. ⚔️ Regardless of whether this manuscript ever rests in the hands of readers other than my mom, my oldest daughter and three blessings I call friends, this story has served an eternal purpose. It has ministered to me, lifted my eyes up to the hills, and tuned my song to sync with Heaven's. For that alone, I would surrender my plans, my late nights and my tears all over again. . . "I have set the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken." -Psalm 16:8 . . #fictionbooks #christianfiction #christianwriting #amwriting #amwritingwomensfiction #manuscriptmonday #thankyoujesus🙏 #booktalk #authorlife #womanoffaith

Help a reader out, #bookstagram 💬 Looking for #bookrecommendations for novels with lovable older characters. Preferably of the elderly variety. What are your favorites? 📚 As you can see, I'm versed in #fredrikbackman and his ingenious characters. What others have captured your attention? •~• #bookshelves #bookstack #books #lookingforbooks #readersofinsta #booktalk #booksbooksbooks #novels #fictionbooks

"It was an honor." . That was my oldest's description of pushing her papa on our walk this evening. She loves to be near him. To hear his stories of growing up on an Iowa farm, of fighting in Korea, of the first time he flew in a plane, of what it was like to survive a tornado, and of his inexplicable and inexcusable love of lutefisk. 😜 . She considers time with him to be time well invested. And she is 100 percent correct. . May we all be as generationally compassionate. #intergenerational #babyboomer #genz #lovethisgirl #callyourgrandparents #thosewhocamebeforeus #sharestoriesthatspeak

Typical #bookstore postures of these two. 😄📚🦄 . #bookseverywhere #lovethesegirls

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