“Would you be willing to endure four months of isolation on a small rocky island if you knew you would not only survive the difficult experience but would come away from it with an unwavering core of self-confidence and spiritual awareness?” The late, great Luci Swindoll throws out this journaling prompt in her inspiring book…
In the opening paragraph of Destiny at Dolphin Bay, my novel launched just last week, we discover that the narrator and main character must write an essay on “What I Learned in Chile.” She’s not excited about the prospect. In fact, she announces that the only thing she’s learned so far is there’s not much…
In a Door-of-No-Return moment, the Lord of the Rings character Samwise Gamgee halts in the middle of a field. “If I take one more step,” he announces hesitantly, “it’ll be the farthest from home I’ve ever been.” But at his companion Frodo’s encouragement, he takes that next step. And basically launches into the deep. He…
