by Rebecca Davis | Sep 5, 2023 | birthday reflections, news and musings
Fourteen years ago I had just started this little blog and had about 2 or 3 readers. That fall, I experienced what may well have been the most acute trauma of my life. But I didn’t even have the word “trauma” in my working vocabulary. I’ve never told that story. The...
by Rebecca Davis | Sep 5, 2022 | birthday reflections
I’m reflecting on a few verses in Titus 2. When I was young, in my 30s, I wanted so much to one day be an older woman teaching the younger. But life can end up looking different from what we expected when we were younger, you know what I mean? And it seems in...
by Rebecca Davis | Sep 5, 2021 | birthday reflections
Many thanks to those of you who met my birthday deadline for giving feedback on the first half of my new book Untwisting Scriptures that were used to tie you up, gag you, and tangle your mind: Book 3 Your Words, Your Emotions. My blog subscribers are the ones who get...
by Rebecca Davis | Sep 5, 2020 | birthday reflections, seeking Jesus
I’ve found that it takes me about four years to be ready to blog about something hard in my life. So here we are. Four years ago my birthday blog post was called “A Warrior’s Tale.” Of the few pieces of creative writing I’ve done, it might be my favorite (even if all...
by Rebecca Davis | Sep 5, 2019 | birthday reflections, news and musings
The question I’ve spoken in a number of Christian school chapels over the years. As a professional storyteller I’d speak in chapel with a true story from one of my missionary books, and then as the “visiting author” I’d go around to the classrooms and answer...
by Rebecca Davis | Sep 5, 2018 | birthday reflections, seeking Jesus
In the early- to mid-1990s, we sat in our first church small group. (We’d been wanting small groups in our previous independent Baptist church, but the pastor wouldn’t allow them.) This first one for us was at Bean Blossom Mennonite Church—which I’ve blogged...