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 | Apr 2, 2022 | Connect, Encourage, Grow, Lent, Prayer, Wholehearted, writeitgirl, Writing
LORD, I have not been at peace. I have been at war. My own personal war is crippling fear. Lord you tell me your desire for me is that I be at peace. You conquered death and fear. And in you peace is your plan. I confess Lord to letting fear win. I’m so tired of...
by Stacey Thacker | Mar 26, 2022 | Connect, Encourage, Grow, Hebrews, Lent, Wholehearted, writeitgirl, Writing
This week God has shown me what has been taking up a large piece of real estate in my heart. It is something that is quite at home there. I have even been known to encourage it, feed it, and give it more credit than it deserves. It is fear. The sad part is, that it is...
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...
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