Darkness overwhelms, consumes, swallows up. Oh, precious Saint, take heed; God is there and holding you.
William Cowper knew this anguish and wrote:
God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants his footsteps in the sea
And rides upon the storm
Before I announce the winners of the three copies of And It Was Beautiful, I want to thank all of you who entered the giveaway. It was a joy and blessing to read all of the entries. We basically had three kinds: the straightforward I-shared-on-social-media entries, the sweet this-is-how-I-encountered-Kara’s-story entries, and the this-is-why-Kara’s-story-has-impacted-me-so-deeply entries. Wow. If you didn’t read through the comments/entries, I would encourage you to do so—you will smile, you will cry, you will thank God for his hand on his children. Thank you, especially to those of you who shared hard bits of your stories. Reading your entries was an encouragement and an honor; we are so glad to be in this community with you.
From an article originally posted October 22, 2013…
Every day presents itself with a myriad choices before each of us, choices in: actions, decisions, attitudes, and behavior. Jason and I are making decisions we never in our wildest dreams expected to be making, yet with each new step there seems to be not only a decision, but a choice in our attitude.
In case you hadn’t heard, our very own Jill Buteyn, who co-authored Just Show Up with Kara, is also a fiction writer! Her second novel, Her Texas Family, came out in paperback on April 19 and comes out in ebook on May 1. We are planning an online book release party slash celebration slash excuse to hang out with our Mundane Faithfulness community in the comfort of our jammies at home! It is going to be super fun!
From an article originally posted October 21, 2013…
Sally Lloyd Jones has a gift. She has a gift for beautifully telling the greatest story ever told. In my stack of devotional books I carry from one favorite perch to another, you will find the following: my Bible, Charles Spurgeon’s Morning by Morning, and Sally’s The Jesus Storybook Bible. A dear friend of mine arranged for me to meet this sweet gift. It was a day I will NEVER forget. Sally was just as I imagined her to be soft, loving, frank, and not afraid to enter the suffering of another.
