by Stacey Thacker | Apr 18, 2022 | Blogging, Connect, Encourage, Lent, Wholehearted, writeitgirl, Writing |
Last week I did something I have never done in my 12 years of writing. I went to the beach for a writing retreat. I had been praying this past winter about being wholehearted in all areas of my life. (Wholehearted is my word of the year for 2022.) I have felt weary...
by Stacey Thacker | Mar 19, 2022 | Blogging, Connect, Encourage, Grow, Lent, Wholehearted, writeitgirl, Writing |
“Every heart-stabbing poem, every story of rescue, every novel that evokes longings, every reading of Tolkien and Wendell Berry and John Donne and a thousand others who make the tears flow—all are an echo of the love behind all of human history. This love is the...
by Stacey Thacker | Mar 12, 2022 | Blogging, Connect, Encourage, Grow, Lent, Wholehearted, writeitgirl, Writing |
Wholehearted Lent (Week 2) I saw a question this week on Social Media that made me stop and think. It said, *”How has giving up your lesser love this lenten season practically changed your week?” First of all, compared to Jesus, everything should be a...
by Stacey Thacker | Mar 5, 2022 | Blogging, Connect, Encourage, Lent, Wholehearted, writeitgirl, Writing |
Tradition has a way of forming us. I didn’t come from a tradition that focused on or even defined Lent. Growing up, I remember our neighbors coming home on Ash Wednesday with crosses on their foreheads and wondering what that meant. These same neighbors went to...
by Stacey Thacker | Feb 12, 2022 | Blogging, Connect, Encourage, Threadbare, Wholehearted, Writer.Girl, Writing |
This year I’ve started a wholehearted journey. And already, just a few weeks in, it has been rather unexpected. I don’t know about you, but over the past couple of years, I can’t say that I have been 100% engaged or committed to anything. It isn’t that I haven’t...
by Stacey Thacker | Sep 21, 2021 | Blogging, coaching, Connect, Encourage, Enjoy God's Word Online Conference, Threadbare Prayer |
Friends. It has been 8 months since my last blog post! I feel the need to re-introduce myself around here! In case we haven’t met yet, I’m Stacey! I’ve been blogging for 12 years. Except 2021 when my blog went down. I have missed this space so...
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