by Chris Manion | Nov 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
A road to beginning again. The older I get, the more I appreciate history and what it teaches me of who I am and how I’ve been taught, what I’ve learned, and what I never knew or have forgotten or have not been taught. Why We Celebrate Thanksgiving in the...
by Chris Manion | Aug 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
We’re so tired of it. The pandemic? Yes. “Enough already!” We get tired of old familiar things too. Such as “Sing a New Song,” the 1972 Dan Schutte guitar song, that God brought before me recently. I tired of that song twenty years ago...
by Chris Manion | Jul 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
I didn’t realize it was one of those spiritual questions at the time. “What do you want me to do now?” Mom asked Dad and me. She’d been in the ICU for seven weeks fighting sepsis—the body’s overreaction to an infection. It threatens...
by Chris Manion | Apr 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
You know the moment. Everything seems to converge at once. Sometimes it revolves around one bad thing after another happening. Sometimes, in the case of transformation, nothing will ever be the same again. All that you’ve been through, all that you’ve...
by Chris Manion | Apr 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
This is my eighth day back from Blue Lake Christian Writers Retreat (Andalusia, AL). After a crazy quarter, I’m allowing my body and spirit to just breathe in the peace of a new home–we had to move three months ago unexpectedly because of a...
by Chris Manion | Mar 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
Part 1 It seems I’m to learn about letting go. You know how the universe sends you what you need? Whether you like it or not? Whether you asked or not? I’m learning to let go. Lessons started late last summer. Someone who bullied my husband and I for over...
