Posts Tagged With: joy

Announcing a Move!

Within the next few weeks my book will be released: A Traveler’s Guide through Suffering and Joy. When I have a release day, I will let you know, and I hope you will order the book!

In preparation for its availability, I have contracted with a lovely web designer to construct a new website for me that will hold all of my various projects. When you opened this post today, you opened JourneyNorthCharacter on my new website: http://www.KarenThomasOlsen.com . Going to the blog as you normally do will also take you to the new site. After you have read this post, click on the box in the upper left to explore the website. This is just the start, but it is a beautiful beginning.

Danette, my web designer, is an artist and photographer. She also designed the cover of my book for both the front and the back. The photography is her original work, and she also designed the word layout. I love the fonts she chose.

Let me show you the entire cover wrap.  The front cover photo features the Elk Mountain range in western Colorado, while the back cover shows the Maroon Bells, two peaks within the Elk Mountain range and the lake below. On the back cover are two endorsements, the book description, and my bio paragraph. Danette designed it all so attractively. What do you think?

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Categories: A Traveler's Guide thr Suffering & Joy, Spiritual Growth, The Roaming Reader, Theology, Travels | Tags: , , , | 6 Comments

“How Can You Explain God’s Grace?” She Sighed.

I talked on the phone with Dustin DeFord’s mother at the end of August, before leaving on my cross-country trip.  Tall (to me) and  lovely with strawberry blond hair and pleasant features, Celeste DeFord talked graciously about her family: “God is working uniquely in each person.” (I took notes.)  At the very beginning of the conversation, she replied to my inquiry into how they are doing with a little sigh: “How can you explain God’s grace?”  Obviously, many folks have asked this question. Continue reading

Categories: Joy & Suffering -- Good & Evil, Spiritual Growth | Tags: , , , , | 3 Comments

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