So there’s an image I’ve wanted to explore for a while. (It’s not this one, though I like it…) I call the image “the fear box.” (Not that picture. The mental image I have. Clear on that?) It’s made of a type of protective, soft material, but very strong. We’re all raised in this sort of cage, and it’s
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“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.” – Frederick Buechner, Now and
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I spoke at the Northwestern Christian Writers Conference this past weekend, where 675 writers came to learn and be encouraged to take the plunge. This is the message I shared. I was a book editor for over a decade before I realized that Christian writers all share similar delusions about what this work entails. And when I coach writers to
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Let us build for the years we shall not see. – Sir Henry John Newbold I saw it in her eyes first, what I expected to see. That flash. “No, Dad. That’s wrong.” Of course, I can’t blame her. I’d told the story “right” as many times as any story I’ve ever told. And I probably should have written this story down
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