faith

Find a Quiet Place

June 30, 2015 By Erin Beasley

You’re my quiet place of retreat;
I wait for Your Word to renew me.
— Psalm 119:114, The Message

Sometimes, you end up running the metaphor. The rain starts to fall, externalizing, echoing the heart’s aches. It drums against the body, perhaps a soft, warm brush against skin or staccato. Hard, abrupt, cold.

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How to be a Better Writer: Pursue Excellence

May 6, 2015 By Erin Beasley

I believe I am called to excellence. Most other people probably do, too. I may differ, however, in the “why” of it. I pursue excellence because God is excellent. He excels at everything He does, has done, will do. Because He tells me to model my life after Him, I choose the way of excellence.

How to be a Better Writer: Exercise Your Writing

December 30, 2014 By Erin Beasley

The writing life – and the life of faith – are ones of continual exercise. Paul tells Timothy to exercise in God daily (1 Timothy 4:6-10, The Message). No spiritual flabbiness is allowed. For the writer who holds her art as a means of exercising both her talent and faith, the same holds true. She has to exercise. She has to train because it makes her fit “both today and forever.”