{"id":574,"date":"2018-03-02T23:05:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T04:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/practicalresourcesforchurches.wordpress.com\/?p=574"},"modified":"2023-10-07T19:15:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T23:15:58","slug":"everbloom-stories-of-deeply-rooted-and-transformed-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prcli.org\/staging\/3075\/2018\/03\/02\/everbloom-stories-of-deeply-rooted-and-transformed-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Everbloom: Stories of Deeply Rooted and Transformed Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Writing can be a solitary business, but the women whose poems, essays, and stories are included in Everbloom: Stories of Deeply Rooted and Transformed Lives <\/em>have found a way to combat the loneliness of writing while proving that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Everbloom <\/em>was written by 42 of the approximately 150 women of the Red Bud Writers Guild<\/a>, whose mission is to nurture \u201ca community of Christian women who create rather than merely consume.\u201d They maintain community through meetings, social media, and networking. Besides the support of like-minded souls, the guild provides tools for writers such as \u201cmanuscript and media mentoring and review, networking, writing conferences, blogging opportunities, resources, camaraderie and community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Margaret Philbrick, one of the editors of Everbloom, <\/em>along with three of its contributors, recently led a webinar for PRC. Philbrick\u2019s poem \u201cWe Write\u201d is the Introduction to the book. Nilwona Nowlin read her contribution, the poem entitled \u201cWhere I\u2019m From,\u201d during the webinar and explained how it was born while she was doing a writing exercise during a retreat. Terri Kraus is a writer of fiction and the author of \u201cMy Nonna,\u201d which tells the story of her grandmother who was born in Italy and immigrated to America. Terri also writes of her experience visiting the village where her grandmother grew up. Terri is the Red Bud Writers Guild President and spent some time during the webinar talking about the workings of the guild. Lara Krupicka described how she found her own voice in the essay \u201cThis Is What It Costs.\u201d If you\u2019d like to watch the recording of the webinar, you can click here<\/a> to register.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a great variety in the various offerings in Everbloom <\/em>from a woman contemplating how rearranging her kitchen is part of making her own choices to women dealing with rape, the suicide of a sibling, or the death of a baby in the womb. Yet, through all the experiences and difficulties that are faced, we see that God is there and that transformation is possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each entry in the book is followed by a prayer and a writing prompt, so it can be used by individuals for devotional time or by groups who may choose to use the writing prompts as discussion questions. Everbloom <\/em>is available from its publisher, Paraclete Press<\/a>; it is also available from Amazon<\/a> and other sellers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Writing can be a solitary business, but the women whose poems, essays, and stories are included in Everbloom: Stories of Deeply Rooted and Transformed Lives have found a way to combat the loneliness of writing while proving that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Everbloom was written by 42 of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[452],"tags":[311,372],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-review-blog","tag-everbloom-stories-of-deeply-rooted-and-transformed-lives","tag-paraclete-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prcli.org\/staging\/3075\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prcli.org\/staging\/3075\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prcli.org\/staging\/3075\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prcli.org\/staging\/3075\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prcli.org\/staging\/3075\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.prcli.org\/staging\/3075\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10383,"href":"https:\/\/www.prcli.org\/staging\/3075\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/10383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prcli.org\/staging\/3075\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prcli.org\/staging\/3075\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prcli.org\/staging\/3075\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prcli.org\/staging\/3075\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}