Hearing Heart Blog

My dreams of becoming a proofreader by trade are materializing! It's been about a month since I talked with anyone about proofreading work, so I contacted my mentor, Bethany, last week. I've only spoken with her once before, but she is so inviting and encouraging to me that I had to get back on track and figure out how to do the "next thing". I upgraded my resume' and printed business cards. That was fun. Then I started searching with Google for Christian publishers. I thought it would be much harder to get publishers to send me proofreading tests, but tonight I'm encouraged again! After sending contact emails to a couple of Christian publishers I found on the internet (I chose names I was familiar with), I received a response within days requesting my address so they could send me a test! You've got to understand... (In my English I'm actually saying, "ya gotta understand!" ) This is incredibly FUN to me! In my mind, this is like tackling a

Didn't we all hear from our mothers, teachers, aunts, whoever - that we should "share"? Tonight I'm resting snugly in a warm home offered to us by some old friends. (Is it okay that I call you old , friends?) My husband and I are celebrating our 30th anniversary surrounded by beauty beyond compare and more than 2 feet of snow! They offered their vacation home to us just out of the blue... How refreshing it is to be cared for like this! Who taught you to share? How did you learn to love? -and how do you express it? "Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms. If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Je