Rainy Days and Mondays—How to Handle Writing Discouragement

by Lori Hatcher @LoriHatcher2

I just began a new year of blogging. Every Monday and Thursday for seven years I’ve posted a five-minute devotion for busy women on my blog, Hungry for God … Starving for Time. Subscribers receive an email in their Inbox.

In my Inbox, things look a little different.

Faith Like a Taco

by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea

Okay, so here’s an idea. A taco, but with a folded hamburger patty for the shell. Because nobody lives forever anyway.

It makes me want to imagine there’s actually a quote that goes, “Ask not for whom the Taco Bell tolls. It probably tolls for thee.” 

Perspective for Writers

by Sarah Van Diest

“And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart” Hebrews 12:1b-3.

I need You, Father, so very much.

I’m struggling today. In words to a writer friend I wrote, “I think this writer’s-giant-mountain-of-a-wall is going to swallow me whole and eat me alive. That’s all.” Do you know what I’m talking about? I’m paralyzed with words of every size and color shooting through my brain and hitting the canvas of my writing like bugs splattered on the windshield. It’s a gooey, bloody mess.