Wings of Glass is available for a FREE download! From the Book Description: From the best-selling author of Crossing Oceans comes a heartrending yet uplifting story of friendship and redemption. On the cusp of adulthood, eighteen-year-old Penny Carson is swept off her feet by a handsome farmhand with a confident swagger. Though Trent Taylor seems like Prince […]
Author: Jo Ann Fore
When Your Masks Hurt Others
One thing I’ve discovered about you, we both want some of the same things: freedom, joy, and a good life. I believe that happens when we fully realize that our lives and voices matter. So for the rest of 2013, we’re celebrating the power of voice, your voice. On a regular basis, we will feature […]
Right Perspective Changes Everything
“[This] is going to end up far better than it started out … a glorious finish: a place in which I [God] will hand out wholeness and holiness {Haggai 2:9 MSG).” The smell of hot buttered rum floated through the air, the candle’s light flickering soft. On my couch, I sat propped with oversized pillows, covered by a light tan throw […]
Forgive Them? Really?!
For years I struggled with forgiving two different men in my life. One who was designed to nurture, to shape me for healthy relationships, and another who had vowed to love, honor, and protect. Both men failed. Miserably. And I held onto that for a very long time. Grudges are so much easier than grace. These relationships […]
Connecting with Others {Even When We’ve Been Hurt}
The women gathered in a semicircle, the leader rocking in her chair with half-finished quilting squares draped across her lap. Etched lines marked her face with a painterly contentment that was somehow pressing my own unrest. She spoke with a confidence I refused to believe. “I miss her, yes, and oh how I wish she […]
The View Behind the Mask
Last week was our first link-up on When A Woman Finds Her Voice, and that link up sparked some awesome conversation and heart-connections. We’ll be doing it here each Wednesday, this linking up and finding our voices, and oh how we hope you join us. Whether you’re a worn-out mama, a worry-wart wife, or a […]
When A Woman Finds Her Voice
There’s something that happens when brokenness stains a woman’s spirit. Have you, or someone you know, ever fallen silent? Felt unable to express yourself because you were misunderstood, attacked, or criticized in some way? Have you ever hurt so badly you felt the pain might never go away? Worse, have you felt this sharp pull to […]
Ragged Hope, an Interview with Cynthia Ruchti
Where is God when you are doing everything right yet, because of someone else’s actions, everything is wrong? Where do we find hope when it’s clouded by the ashes of other people’s choices? It’s one thing to live with the consequences of your own actions. It’s quite another to live with the outcome of someone […]
When your voice seems pale in comparison
They are ever so lovely, those voices crooning from behind microphones, bellowing from bodies wrapped in spandex and sequins and sometimes very little at all. Their words are music and their presence seems to grip the hearts of hearers with an ease that makes you cringe when you think of how small your voice sounds […]
When you shoulder the megaphone and a million fears
Most of us as women understand, at least on some level, that we have an obligation to speak out and use our voices. To tell, to encourage, to instruct, to correct, to announce, to plead, to bless. This is not news to most of us, especially if we’ve been led in any way by women […]