I move at a pace much too slow to be called successful. Or maybe even ambitious. I guess I look around and wonder what all that means anyhow. It’s no secret I hold no deep love for blogging as a medium other than the community that has become an anchor for me, tethering me to friendships spanning the globe. I’ll admit, that part is tremendous. I have the most amazing readers on the internet. No contest. I’ve carved out a place here in the past 4 years and I’m forever grateful but some days I …
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It Speaks to Me
It's been a long time since I've done a links post partly because I've been busy with my book and haven't been reading as much, but there's some good stuff out there so I resurrected ~It Speaks to Me~ so you'd have a chance to read these too if you missed them among the 180 million blogs in the world. How Culture Affects Our Expectations of Leaders by Sandra Maria Van Opstal for Christianity Today Gender, ethnic, or socioeconomic biases affect how we choose leaders. In his book on Asian …
Books and the Poverty of Soul
I've been thinking about books a lot lately. Maybe it's because I'm writing my own and as the chapters take shape, I think of what this story will become. I think of the hopes I have for it in the world. My mother is a book lover and I am every bit her daughter. I am also my father's girl and he was a storyteller all of his days, and in those ways of nature and nurture, writing came as naturally as turning a page or gathering a small group to listen to a tale. I was writing before I …
