I was a week past deadline on this post. I sat at the keyboard for two days straight while fever swallowed up my hours and I mopped up my nose with a growing pile of tissues, gathering like soggy clouds in my wastebasket. And my fingers hovered over the keys. Backspace gobbled up my words faster than I could get them down and I must have started five or six posts before the letters trailed off and got stringy and anemic like my story was being siphoned off and stolen away. I wanted to blame it …
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Outside In (a Guest Post by Cindy Brandt)
I just got back from Faith and Culture Writers Conference where I shared about Truth Telling and how to steward our stories. There are certain voices/stories/people that just resonate with me about ALL THE THINGS, even when we disagree, and so many of those people were present. The ones who challenge me, and convict me, and inspire me. We need all sorts, don't we? We had rich conversations about things that matter. Kingdom things. I'll be sharing more about what God did there in the coming …
Tell Your Story: A micro-memoir link up
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it. - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird I've long believed we are at our best when allowing ourselves time to sit with another in their story and to share our own. When we walk around a bit in someone else's memories and see what life looks like from eyes not our own, we grow in the ability to comprehend another's suffering and triumphs, struggles and …
