Spotlight Writer!

Introducing Emily Saxe

Hi! I’m Emily Saxe, of To Unearth.

I write about finding God in the midst of our ordinary routines. Each article focuses on how God reveals Himself and teaches us new things each day, we just have to be willing to seek Him. I live in Indiana with my husband.

 

When did you begin your blogging journey and why?

I began my website during the spring of 2017 after God moved in my heart to get back to my journalism roots. My goal has been to help people see God in the midst of their ordinary. I honestly don’t know where God is taking me on this writing journey, but I’ve loved learning about this field and seeing God work through my words!

 

Five Faves

Fave Movie- Ever After is my favorite movie. I’m a sucker for a quality love story and an amazing movie score!

Fave Book- I love “Arena” by Karen Hancock. It’s a fun allegory of the Christian faith and really sucks you in!

Fave Pastime- Reading and sewing to relax, working out with my husband to stay healthy!

Fave Childhood Memory- Family dinners. My parents were really good about making sure we all sat down together and ate dinner as a family.

Fave Quote- “It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes.” ~Oswald Chambers

 

Fun Fact

I used to want to act in Christians movies. In my head, I was going to help Christian movies get up to par with secular ones! I am, quite honestly, so thankful God changed that desire!

 

Prayer Prompt

I could really use prayer about keeping my identity in Christ and not in my job or how much (or little) money I make. It’s hard work to maintain a website and do freelance work on the side, and I didn’t realize how much I had placed on my job title until I quit my full-time job to pursue this. I know God has His own version of success, so I can’t measure success based on my job title or my paycheck!

 

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Feature Post

I’m Not Ready For Kids: A Look at Christian Peer Pressure

There are certain struggles in this world we’ll never escape, no matter how old we become. Even though with age come wisdom and discernment, we will never quite reach the point of no longer fighting. The struggle is always real, so to speak.

We struggle against our sin, yes, but we also struggle against the sin of others. And in the Christian community, we see too often how our brothers and sisters in God’s family put us in the position of struggling against something we thought we wouldn’t have to deal with once we matured past the college-age mentality: peer pressure.. {Continue Reading}

 

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Spotlight Writer

Introducing Michele Morin!

 

Michele is a teacher, blogger, reader, and gardener who finds joy in sitting at a table surrounded by women with open Bibles. She has been married to an unreasonably patient husband for nearly 30 years, and together they have four sons, two daughters-in-love, two grandchildren, and one lazy St. Bernard.

Michele loves hot tea and well-crafted sentences, poems that stop her in her tracks and days at the ocean with the whole family. She laments biblical illiteracy and advocates for the prudent use of “little minutes.”

She blogs at Living Our Days where she writes about the books she is reading and the grace she is receiving.

 

When did you begin your blogging journey and why?

I began writing a devotional column for my church’s website, and slowly gained confidence to begin a blog on my own. I’ve always been an avid reader and a dabbler in poetry and essays, but having a blog gave me a place to bring it all together and some accountability to “show up” for a growing family of readers.

 

Five Faves

Fave Food- Yogurt with fruit and granola

Fave television show- Downton Abbey

Fave Bible character- Huldah

Fave childhood memory- Huge snowbanks in Northern Maine! My sister and I played outside in the snow until our (matching) snowsuits were soaked.

Fave Quote- Annie Dillard said, “How we live our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

That quote became so meaningful to me in the early mothering days when the minutes were flying by with, seemingly, so little accomplished. However, in those days, relationship capital was accruing with my sons, and foundations were being laid for character and resiliency in all of us!

When it came time to give my blog a name, Living Our Days seemed like an obvious choice.

 

Fun Fact

I love to sing. I don’t have a great voice, but I do have a pretty good ear and can almost always find a part. My high school and college social life pretty much centered around a piano with a group of people singing one song after another.

 

Prayer Prompt

Family, ministry, and writing are the three pillars of my schedule and my life. I want to be faithful in all three and to give the right amount of attention in the right space at the right time. My greatest desire is to be fully present to God’s assignment for each moment.

 

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Featured Post

Making a Commitment to Blessing

The ping of a message changed my day: “Let’s take food to a friend who needs encouragement.”

“Well, why not?” I asked myself, and began pondering the joyful outcome that always arises from random acts of blessing.

I’ve always wanted to be an extrovert — or at least an optimist.
Failing at both, I’m thankful to be a Christian, for when Scripture presides over any natural tendencies I may have to hunker down and spend my whole life “ordering my private world,” I get to move outside my comfort zone and to make a commitment to be a blessing to others.. {Continue reading}

 

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