Heart Strings

Why Do I Need A Writer’s Retreat?

Melinda

For Christmas God gave me the gift of being accepted to Grand Canyon University.  I am currently an online student and obtaining a degree in Counseling there .  I am dual enrolled and getting my Masters in Biblical Studies at the same time from The Sure Foundation Theological Institute.

God also began this blog in December.  I have been writing all of my life. I have written poetry, short stories, songs, journal entries, sermons, curriculum, the blog, essays, and I just started my first fiction book.  I would like to attend the writer’s conference at Laity Lodge because GCU’s catch phrase is “Find Your Purpose”.  I know I have been led here by God.  It would be a gift of refreshment spiritually as well, as God is doing something new in my life.  He had me step down as a Youth Pastor at the end of the last school year , and I will be writing curriculum for parenting classes given to women at the local pregnancy support center.  He has yet to let me know what He is doing altogether, as usual, so this could be part of His plan. He has recently told me to leave this place and go to the land that He will show me.  Could Laity Lodge be that land?  Or, could Laity Lodge be the place He reveals where I am to go?  I would be so grateful for the opportunity to attend the Laity Lodge Writer’s Retreat.

Blessing abundant to you Beloved ❤ Mindy

P.S.

Songwriting is my favorite pastime.

I am currently writing “Welcome at the Well”, a novel about a woman’s journey from bondage to brokenness that leads her to living water.
 
I want to write a memoir that would tell how a child sexually abused from the age of 3 or earlier came to know Christ who completely changed her life.  Even if it is not published, it is something I want to leave my four girls. 

Published by Melinda

Really y’all I’m just another Samaritan woman seeking living water and pouring out where I see need for encouragement.   I am 48, mother to four girls ages 16-26, Gigi to the most handsome 2-year-old little boy, Fibromyalgia warrior, minister, writer, and a lifetime learner. 
I am writing my first book, slowly but surely, six chapters in, as our blessed first love has called me to share His glory in my story. I feel lost in that familiar desert place, and thankful for the manna that is there miraculously every day. I am overcoming hour by hour the condemning voices of the enemy and learning to love myself. It has been an arduous journey.  This wordsmith journey, but so worth it. 
I became a licensed minister in 2010.  However, I do not currently work in the ministry. I share Christ's love through devotional blogging.   I have a degree in Church Ministry, was pursuing my degree in Christian Care and Counseling at Oral Roberts University, but now am pursuing Life Coaching, and Neurolinguistic Programming Master Practioner Certifications and a business license. I am a certified women’s biblical counselor through the Extraordinary Women's program at Light University.   I am working on their Addiction and Recovery program now too.  Yes, I am a glutton for punishment with a wealth of life experiences with which I can minister comfort to others.
I'm a lover of a good book, writing, singing, and music, and my nemesis is the perpetual laundry pile.
Blessings to you and yours,
<3Melinda


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