“For Ethel Campfield, with her can-do attitude, her good humor, and her energy, moving West with her family in 1908 should be an adventure and an opportunity to build a new life in the vast space of the prairies. She dreams of owning her own farm, cattle covering the slopes, and wheat waving in the wind. But when she arrives, it is nothing like she expects.”
New book in store now!
Recent Writings
Here’s what I’ve been working on in the past few weeks.
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A Greater Deep
Walking by the sea is supposed to be good for your health. It is not just the walking, which we know is healthful, but also…
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From Shelter to Home
We sometimes sing a hymn that says: God is “Our shelter from the stormy blast And our eternal home.” That may come as a surprise…
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Outside the March of Time
Time keeps going at a steady, unrelenting pace. And that pace is heightened because we fill it with activities, with duties, work that must be…
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You Have Incredible Value – Part 2
In my last blog, “You have incredible value”, I outlined God’s role in our own personal creation, using the verse from Psalm 139 that we…
“Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.”
Oscar Wilde
Molly Deatherage 