Redbud Writers Guild

Happy New Year! Welcome to 2024. There’s going to be some changes around here starting next month as we move to Substack and become The Redbud Hyphen. Our guild president, Dorina Lazo-Gilmore Y...

https://redbudwritersguild.com/letter-from-the-editor-28/

Birds are visual reminders of the faithfulness and tender care of God.

https://redbudwritersguild.com/joy-is-a-golden-crowned-sparrow/

God has given me a gift and he has called me to utilize my gift to make him known to the world.

https://redbudwritersguild.com/the-work-of-a-christian-writer/

I wanted closeness with God. I wanted my calling and my role as a mom. I wanted faith so strong I’d run with the horses, but I also wanted to feel strong and capable.

https://redbudwritersguild.com/when-running-means-staying/

The Bennets proved to me that a writer need not be of the Jack London ilk. One might inhabit a small world, but a keen mind could expand even the most confined drawing room.

https://redbudwritersguild.com/shaping-my-story-with-story/

Our heavenly Father knew exactly what every living thing would need to survive and created the Earth with these needs in mind.

https://redbudwritersguild.com/our-miraculous-home-and-gods-call-to-steward-it-well/

I am sick, isolated, feeling hopeless. The world tells me I am unwanted, unloved, worse; unneeded. That I am useless, a drain on society’s resources, on my caring husband’s time. A waste of s...

https://redbudwritersguild.com/returning-to-the-river/

“Do you always read to your kids like that?” she queried. My friend was referring to my rendition of a Dr. Seuss classic delivered at tongue-twister speed from a rocking chair in the church n...

https://redbudwritersguild.com/time-out-from-the-practice-of-hurry/

We live on a sand dune high above Lake Michigan. Over time, the landscape changes entirely, eroded and caressed by calm and storm alike. Mostly rugged, sometimes docile, its environment is never ...

https://redbudwritersguild.com/dunes-desert-and-the-sands-of-time/

As we approach the holiday season, the word “joy” will be more prominent as we celebrate Jesus, who brought joy to the world. As you read this issue and contemplate the writers’ words, cons...

https://redbudwritersguild.com/letter-from-the-editor-27/