When the Next Chapter Is Darkness
Madeleine L’Engle, the celebrated author of A Wrinkle in Time (winner of the 1963 Newbery Award for Children’s Literature) knew the darkness of loss, particularly in relationships, ... Many of us, when charting the timeline of our lives, can point to a moment when a story or poem happened. It happened the way an accident or a record-breaking snowfall happened: it ... I knew that my future husband, Tom, was a different kind of guy when he announced on one of our first dates, “So, I have this lifelong mission statement.” First of all, anyone who knows my husband is not surprised. Tom is nothing if not intentional. ... In time, the sons of men filled the earth with their evil deeds. And God beheld the desolate wastes Recently I had the privilege of editing a collection of writings for the seasons of Lent and ... About twelve years ago I began freelancing as a writer and occasional speaker. At the time my husband and I were child-free, which meant that, by most writerly standards, I was living the dream. Long, uninterrupted hours of writing, musing, sipping tea, more musing, more writing, and the occasional ...
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