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✨I am so blessed to kick off our Advent series: A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS, inspired by Caravaggio’s Nativity and John 1:4-5.✨ 6 amazing writers will be joining us through the month of December to meditate on this theme: @deidrebraley @rosagilber
🎉Mark your calendars for 12/10! TWBTO will be celebrating our Literary Journal’s FALL COLLECTION: The Peace of Wild Things with open mic, celebration, and connection. ✍🏿✍🏾✍🏽✍🏼All published artists and authors of the journal are warmly in
✨The Way Back to Ourselves is honored to present our Advent series at the blog, A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS.✨ Join us throughout the month of December as we make the journey toward Christmas and draw ever near to Christ’s eternal LIGHT. Enjoy po
🍁Happy Thanksgiving & God bless you all. I am SO very grateful for YOU.🍁 Here’s a little invocation for the day of thanks giving with a poetic touch. I pray it blesses you & that Thanksgiving fills you in some way—whether you
🎉The Way Back to Ourselves Literary Journal is honored to celebrate the six very special poets we have nominated for the Pushcart Prize: ✍🏼Karen Swallow Prior with “Of the Smaller Miracles” @karenswallowprior ✍🏼Nicholas Trandahl wit
🌲🍁🏔️ It feels like Christmas Day for the editors & me—& no doubt, you too, if you were published in our literary journal’s Fall Collection: THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS, inspired by the work of Wendell Berry! Why??? 🍁🍁BECAUSE
This week has been hard. I’m still struggling to process the sharp downward turn in my health the past few months. I can’t thank you all enough for your beautiful prayers & messages this week, as I faced appointments &a
🎉GIVEAWAY ALERT: THE PEACE OF LITERARY THINGS. Enter NOW through Sunday 11/17 at midnight EST to get in on these literary goodies to kick off the fall season.🎉 🍁We want to celebrate & highlight The Way Back to Ourselves’ creative, editi
🌌I’ve been taking long looks at the night sky lately. It’s helping me get by. I tuck my prayers and hopes in those stars. I see the face of God. It quiets my mind, eases my soul, and reminds me how small I am—and I like this ki
🇺🇸I know it’s Election Day, but I just wanted to break up your feed with some good news that isn’t political. ✍🏼I’m blessed to share that my essay, “A Promise in the Darkness,” was published in @ct_mag Advent Devoti
❤️‍🩹I’m not myself. I’ve been struggling quite a bit. This post couldn’t have happened without the love of a faithful friend coming beside me. It was her words that bolstered my weary ♥️ yesterday when I was finding it
🎶 It’s finally here! TWBTO is proud to present the reboot of The Artist’s Interview with writer, artist, & musician Joel Adock of @writtenwithinco. In this in-depth & inspirational interview, contributor @steve.can.draw sits dow