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Beauty on the Backroads

Stories of grace for life's unexpected turns

The words

For years I wrote monthly for the collaborative blog Putting on the New. You can find some of my work on that site.

Here are some other places you can find my words in the world.

  • A local’s 3 favorite Lancaster County Farmers Markets
  • The Good News About Sex After Marriage: You Can Still Say “No”, a winning entry for CBE International’s annual writing contest
  • Why I Didn’t Try to Save His Soul, guest post for Addie Zierman’s blog
  • What I Saw When I Didn’t Have a Phone in my Hand, guest post on Shawn Smucker’s blog
  • Guest post for Alison McLennan’s Nothing So Broken Series: When the Vow Breaks.
  • Guest posts for Joel Kime: Origin stories, superheroes and what defines us and Why we tell our stories
  • Guest post for Live58, We’re on Food Stamps and We’re Not Like That.
  • Two meditiations in The One Year Devotional of Joy and Laughter.
  • One meditation in Blessed Are You: Meditations on the Beatitudes.
  • Guest post on The Green Grandma for The Sabbath Experiment.
  • Contributer to Jane Friedman’s When Mom Was My Age series.
  • Guest post for Lisa DeLay, Pride and Popularity.
  • Guest post for Evangelical Seminary’s Deeper Leader blog, Joy with a Side of Fear.
  • Guest post for Carol Cool, Changed by Compassion.
  • Guest post for The Green Grandma, Expect the Unexpected for Supermom! How I birthed my baby series.
  • “Submitting Your Hit List to Jesus: 5 ways to pray for your enemies,” Prayer Connect magazine, May/June 2013 issue.
  • One Literal Step at a Time, guest post for OneWord365
  • Guest post for Accidental Devotional’s series Jesus at the Blackboard: Choose Wisely.
  • “Training for a Prayer-a-Thon: How to Develop Your Intercessory Muscles,” Prayer Connect magazine, November/December 2013 issue.
  • “Decisons, Decisions,” Devotions on the Go, Thriving Family magazine, August/September 2013 issue.
  • Guest post for OneWord365: The One Thing I Didn’t Expect to Release.
  • Guest post for Preston Yancey’s series What Women Want From the Church: Sisters.
  • Life in the Slow Lane, guest post for The Upper Room.

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Welcome

Hi. I’m Lisa, and I’m glad you’re here. If we were meeting in real life, I’d offer you something to eat or drink while we sat on the porch letting the conversation wander as it does. That’s a little bit what this space is like. We talk about books and family and travel and food and running, whatever I might encounter in world. I’m looking for the beauty in the midst of it all, even the tough stuff. (You’ll find a lot of that here, too.) Thanks for stopping by. Stay as long as you like.

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