Not merely an artist’s favorites, but SPECIFICALLY an artist with chronic illnesses and pain. There’s a difference. I spend a lot of time propped up with pillows in my bed with people fanning me and feeding me grapes and I have ADVICE ON WHICH GRAPES. (Kidding. No one feeds me grapes or fans me [taking applications on that currently–go to…
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From Misery to Ministry
WHEN WE ARE DEALT A DIFFICULT HAND, IT DOESN’T HAVE TO INCLUDE A “MISERY MINDSET”. The Lord brought me to this reality fairly early on in my season of chronic illness, and I have been so grateful for that. I was hospitalized when I was 12 years old with a completely foreign confuse-all-the-doctors sort of issue. Several specialists in the…
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The Accidental Artist
What’s an accidental artist? Well. Let’s talk about that. You know those kids who dreamed of being an artist from the time they could sit up? They drove their mom nuts by drawing on the coffee table…on the walls…in the hymnals at church….turning every scrap of junk into a piece of fine art? Seeing life through a lens of beauty…
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5 Things You Should Know About Me
FIRST post on the ol’ blog. Whooo! Everyone’s favorite thing to figure out what to write, right? I figured I’d dive in and introduce myself. But, whew! With all the website building, email automation list building, blog building, copywriting, email writing, writing….writing….building….researching….writing…it starts to feel like how can this possibly be the very first post? Haven’t I been doing this for ages? Aaaha, nope. This is just the beginning of the road, Grace. But…
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