by Jody Lee Collins | Oct 3, 2023 | Poetry, Spiritual Practice
Dear Friends & current readers, Hi there! This is your second communication from me in one day…. But I think you’ll be happy ’tis so. I am sharing something I believe you’ll find helpful–Five Things That Might Surprise You About...
by Jody Lee Collins | Sep 4, 2023 | On Writing, Poetry
Dear Kind Readers, as you may know (and for those who are new here–welcome!) my second book of poetry, Mining the Bright Birds: Poems of Longing for Home found a publishing home earlier this year at a small press in Oregon. I wrote about the background of the...
by Jody Lee Collins | Jul 12, 2023 | Life & Faith
This July the 14th I will have been married nearly forever. Okay, for fifty years. Space will not allow a full treatise of all those many, many days, but only a snapshot of two days in particular. Earlier this month I visited one of my favorite doctors after a recent...
by Jody Lee Collins | Jul 8, 2023 | On Writing
A fellow writer and I were recently lamenting the vagaries (so close to the word ‘aggravation’!) of the current iteration of Instagram. The black hole of time suck it has become, not to mention the effect on one’s mental and emotional health from scrolling mindlessly...
by Jody Lee Collins | Jun 10, 2023 | On Writing, Poetry
Last fall when the sky was cobalt blue and leaves were brilliant, flaming shades of amber and maroon (as they are wont to be here in the Pacific Northwest) I stole away for an overnight writing retreat. My goal was to cobble together a year’s worth of poetry...
by Jody Lee Collins | May 10, 2023 | My Poems
“They came out of the tombs and after Jesus’ resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many people.” Matthew 27:52,53 There it was buried, just a short paragraph News so astounding I...
by Jody Lee Collins | May 4, 2023 | Life & Faith, Spiritual Practice
How does worry drive our prayers? I’ve been pondering this a lot lately as God has forced my hand at surrendering to Him what I cannot control. The truth is there will always be something amiss to inhabit our prayers and lead us into worry. We live in a...
by Jody Lee Collins | Apr 28, 2023 | Life & Faith
Do you have a Life Verse, a Scripture that encapsulates your identity, sent from the heart of God to your ears? Mine is Psalm 45:1, “My tongue is the pen of a ready writer…” (You’ll find it at the bottom of this website.) However, I’ve been pondering...
