May your new year be happy.
May your troubles be few.
May you thrive and believe,
As our Father comes through.
Tag: Faith
Writing Life~Evolution and Me
I have been writing for a long time. I don’t pretend to know anything about what is right and proper, but I trust the Holy Spirit to guide me, and guide He does.
The thing is, He steers me this way and that seemingly at random. Randomness turns into synchronicity, synchronicity to evolution. Evolution? Isn’t that a bad word?
Evolution is the only word I know that adequately describes the journey to fulfillment of any dream or God-inspired passion. We learn, we change, we grow, then it all happens again.
Random=without definite aim, direction, rule, or method.
Synchronicity=the simultaneous occurrence of events that appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection.
Evolution=a process of change in a certain direction
Do you have a better word? If so, share it.
Michael Findley Interviews DiVoran Lites
Michael Findley, blogger at Elk Jerky for the Soul, author of fiction and Bible studies interviewed DiVoran Lites on his website August 28,2013. I have included some of the hightlights below.
Tell us about things you enjoy – what you do for fun or personal satisfaction.
Writing is the greatest enjoyment in my life. But, I love to read fiction and non-fiction as well. I like to swim, take long walks in the woods, paint, draw, and journal, both art journal, and writing journal. I enjoy good, clean movies. I like to cook for my husband and meet family and friends for dinner. I enjoy singing on the church praise team and I like to dance in my kitchen to lively music. The neighbor kids come over for short stretches of time and I like visiting with them. My husband loves to travel and I enjoy it when he goes away for a week to see an aviation museum or four, because it gives us a chance to miss each other and refresh our relationship when he comes home. Yes, I live a quiet life. I feel as if this time truly is, “the best of life for which the first was made.” Robert Browning.
Clear Spring is my newest book. It’s about Mel Nicolaides, who is one of five children. She has lived a happy but sheltered life. When her parents and siblings go to Europe for the summer, Mel opts to stay home and take a job, at a remote North Florida spring. There she begins illustrating a botanical book while learning about Seminole Indian medicine and culinary herbs from its author. This is her opportunity to fulfill her deepest desire, which is to become an independent woman who needs no one. She throws herself into the experience with enthusiasm. But the sudden revelation of a family skeleton forces her to find the rhythms of a power within herself that will profoundly change her life.
You can read the rest of this interview with Michael Findley at Got You Covered: Proofing, Formatting, Cover Design
DiVoran’s final book of the Florida Springs Trilogy will be releasing some time this fall. Here is a sneak-peak at her cover. All of her covers are hand painted.
Summer Sounds
It’s summer which means in early morning it’s light enough and warm enough, to write letters to God on the back porch. Today I heard: an airplane overhead, a cardinal back in the woods, an air-conditioner coming on, the dog next dog barking intermittently, a single cicada, which is unusual, and a tapping from the renovation house next door. A rooster that lives at the end of the street continued to yodel long after he had forced the sun to come up. By the time I finished my letter to God, I was able to add a cat’s plaintive meow (the cat begs to move in with the family that lives next door to him), and a car staring up, maybe to go to the beach.
Where are your writing places and what do you hear from there?
