Today’s prompt is: Do you have a book in you? Fact or fiction? Related to your blog or totally different?
Well, the first part of the answer is that I have already worked on two books!
The first is an Advent study that is available here. It weaves between the story of the magi and the book of Hebrews in order to show how the gifts brought to Jesus foreshadow the roles he plays in our lives.
The second is a lectionary based study that is available for Lent 2015 and can now be preordered! It takes a broad view of salvation and discusses a variety of atonement theories along the way.
There is a book that someday I would like to write, however, that is more autobiographical in nature. As the post title suggests, it revolves around a blue couch, but more than that, it would be the story of my call and my relationship with my husband. While in large part it is a book I would love to write, particularly for anyone who also is in a relationship with someone who doesn’t share their faith story, it is also a book that a) isn’t a complete story yet and b) might be too personal at the moment to share.
The blue couch is currently sitting in my office at home. Together, we rescued it from being thrown away from an office building in Wisconsin. We hadn’t been dating too long at that point, but were pretty attached to each other. Since then, it traveled with us to college, moved with me to seminary, got destroyed by our kittens when we moved back home, but I just can’t seem to throw it away. It is a super high quality couch with real down feathers and although we have beat up on that couch, it is stick kicking! (which might be a metaphor in and of itself for our relationship!) I’m trying to figure out how/when I might reupholster it… in blue of course!
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