by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea Ever get to that “I need to peel a roll of cookie dough and eat it like a banana” state of stressed? Cookie dough. So good, but so bad. But I’m talking about a shaky-hand kind of stress that goes beyond even the “I have to pour…

By Maureen Miller “For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?” (Esther 4:14—NIV, 1988…

by: Shannon Redmon @shannon_redmon That’s a question all authors must answer at some point in their careers. There are many different reasons—some toll away for days on end hoping for big payoffs, while others want the fame and fortune of bestsellers like Nicolas Sparks or James Patterson. Not all writers…

by Rachael Colby  @RachaelColby7  It seems some missed the memo that most worthy endeavors require hard work. I find writing mentally, physically, and spiritually exhausting. It’s exhilarating too—but that usually comes after the exhaustion. Writing is time intensive and demanding, but it’s worth it. Life happens. Sometimes we can handle…

by: Shannon Redmon @shannon_redmon “But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, that shines brighter and brighter until the full day.” Proverbs 4:18 (NASB) When light dawns over my mountain home in Western North Carolina, the sun doesn’t pop up all at once—bright and ready like…

by Alycia W. Morales @AlyciaMorales With everything going on in our world—all the crazy chaos—it can be difficult to survive, let alone get any writing done. Over the past six months, I’ve come up against depression more than once, which is something I haven’t experienced since college. I’ve faced a few…