I sat down with the Bishop a few weeks ago and he asked me if I was still writing.<\/p>\n

It was a hard question for me to answer, because I full well knew this blog has been neglected in the past few weeks and months.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

But that doesn’t mean I haven’t been writing.<\/p>\n

To start with, I finished my manuscript for this book<\/a> as part of the Abingdon Press “Converge Series.” \u00a0I even got my Cokesbury catalog in the mail yesterday and saw the cover inside! \u00a0I’m not ashamed to admit I was a little giddy to be published. \u00a0Although it isn’t in the Advent section, it makes a great Advent group study (hint, hint).<\/p>\n

I also was busy preparing materials for Advent and Christmas for Imagine No Malaria<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, words have been going down on pages.<\/p>\n

But I haven’t done a lot of the personal reflecting that is a part of my blog writing, so in that sense, no, I wasn’t doing the kind of writing that really feeds my soul.<\/p>\n

That needs to change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I sat down with the Bishop a few weeks ago and he asked me if I was still writing. It was a hard question for me to answer, because I full well knew this blog has been neglected in the past few weeks and months. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t been writing. To start…<\/span><\/p>\n

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