Carrie | September 17, 2011
There is there the perception that Christians sometimes act without thinking. It’s my observation that we’ve earned that reputation fair and square. Whatever the issue, we sometimes hear something or read something and the first thing we do is get fired up and fire off emails to editors or congressmen or whomever. Sometimes we cite [...]
Carrie | August 27, 2011
My husband and I recently watched Pixar’s Cars for the first time. Like most other movies from Pixar, Cars was very good. Funny. Entertaining. Equipped with a sharp point. We watched the special features after watching the movie and the segment about what inspired the movie was very informative. It combined a love of cars [...]
Carrie | August 13, 2011
For Christians who are artists, writers, musicians or creative in other ways, the matter of service to God and creative endeavors sometimes seem in conflict. What place do art or creative writing have in the church? For many, good Christians all of them, the answer is easy. There is no place in the church for [...]
Carrie | August 6, 2011
I’m taking a break from the regular blog series to talk about something that’s of great importance to me. I have long believed the ills of this nation are linked directly to our turning from God. The more He has been pushed from public life and public discourse, the more severe our ills have become, [...]
Carrie | July 27, 2011
On August 6, the nation will come together at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas for a solemn gathering of prayer and fasting for our country. We believe that America is in a state of crisis. Not just politically, financially or morally, but because we are a nation that has not honored God in our successes [...]
Carrie | April 23, 2011
Since October 2009, when I prayed about National Novel Writing Month and received an answer with Saving Grace, I’ve treated writing as a calling. Something God gave me the talent, interest, and time to do. Just like painting. I’m not sure when it happened, but I also began thinking of each individual story as something [...]
Carrie | September 24, 2010
I subscribe to a daily meditation email from Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM). Each week day morning, A Slice of Infinity arrives fresh from the good people at RZIM. This morning’s was titled The Disappointing Grace of God and the subject was the fairness (justness) of God. But the topic was handled in such a [...]
Carrie | September 13, 2010
2 Chronicles 4.1 Solomon also made a bronze altar 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet high. Exodus 20.26 And do not go up to my altar on steps, lest your nakedness be exposed on it. Here is an interesting thought. At least it was interesting to me when I first thought it. [...]
Carrie | September 6, 2010
I Chronicles 28.9: “And Solomon, my son, get to know the God of your ancestors. Worship and serve him with your whole heart and with a willing mind. For the LORD sees every heart and under-stands and knows every plan and thought. If you seek him, you will find him. But if you forsake him, [...]
Carrie | August 30, 2010
Proverbs 19.21 says: You can make many plans but the LORD’s purpose will prevail. New Living Translation Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails. NIV In other words, I can set goals, design stories and paintings and do all sorts of scheduling, calendaring, and other things, [...]
I've been an avid looker-at of books since I was old enough to sit on her lap and listen to the stories she read.
The oldest complete manuscript I have was written when I was in the eighth grade.
Throughout grade school and high school, I read every horse story I could get my hands on. Walter Farley was a huge favorite and I still enjoy reading the adventures of the Black Stallion and Flame and all the rest. But Marguerite Henry, C. W. Anderson, Thomas Hinkle and anyone else who wrote a story about a horse was on my to-read list. I couldn't get enough of them.
Then I found Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and discovered another world; the world of mysteries!
More recently Dick Francis has combined my love of horse stories with my love of mysteries with his series of books.
In the early part of this century, I was introduced to the world of Christian fiction and in July of 2008, I took my first ever writing workshop. The workshop covered several aspects of writing from a Christian worldview and an entirely new vista opened before me.
I am, as yet, unpublished. I write every day, maintain painting and writing blogs, painting journals, writing journals and a number of other writing endeavors. Along with other members of my church family, I've written devotions for Advent and Lenten devotional booklets. For a time, I wrote a monthly column for the Newton Kansan newspaper.
I still enjoy a good horse story but I also enjoy a good mystery or cozy mystery, suspense and a little bit of action here and there, as well as literary works. I hope, Lord willing, to try my hand at each of those genres.
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