by Deb Farris | Dec 19, 2023 | Advent, Devotions, Poetry, Writing
I was going to wait till the end of the week to post my reflection on Joy for the third week of Advent, as I’ve been doing. But then realized I still have to fit in Love before the 24th… The photos in this post are taken with the eye and hand of...
by Deb Farris | Dec 7, 2023 | Advent, Devotions, Nature, Writing
The photos in this piece are the work of Photographer/Writer Gary Fultz “There are many things we don’t have language for,” our instructor Tolu said last Saturday in the One to One Care training I attend. It made me stop. She continued. “Often we don’t have words to...
by Deb Farris | Nov 30, 2023 | Advent, Devotions, Writing
All the photos in this piece are generously provided by Photographer/Writer Gary Fultz, Unsplash. Early on in my writing days, God sent along two women, a poet named Sarah and a painter named Lynn, to accompany me as I wrote in a safe little place. To me, they were my...
by Deb Farris | Nov 18, 2023 | Faith, Musings, Writing
Ecclesiastes 3 reminded me this morning that there is a time for everything and a season for every activity under heaven a time to write and a time to edit a time to rewrite and a time to wait a time to study and a time to stop a time to be patient and a time to be...
by Deb Farris | Oct 16, 2023 | Devotions, Nature, Writing
It was one of those Monday mornings in early fall when I realized it was time to move on into a new season, but I wasn’t quite there yet. I was struggling. I grabbed at the minutes, wanting more of them, before I had to pack up my briefcase and head into the office...
by Deb Farris | Sep 28, 2023 | Musings, Writing
I’ve just come away from a three day writing retreat. It will take time to see the lasting impact. It’s a process. Three days surrounded by a genuinely loving, encouraging, supporting group of writers, like my WordPress community here. It was over lunch with a friend...