Reflections on My 65th Birthday: The Little Red Hen
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...That Time I Tried to Be Like George Mueller: Reflections on My 64th Birthday
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...Reflections on My 63rd Birthday: The Box of Things I Don’t Know What to Do With
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...Reflections on My 62nd Birthday: “What if Your Life Were Written as a Story?”
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...Reflections On My 61st Birthday: “Why Don’t I Ever Meet Those People?”
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...
I’m Rebecca Davis, a trauma-informed writer, book coach, speaker, compassionate witness, prayer minister, and lover of Jesus who lives in Greenville, South Carolina.
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