Jerry Jenkins Inner Circle

Jerry Jenkins Inner Circle

    Jan Fallon is a recent graduate of the first Jerry Jenkins Inner Circle Mastermind Group, a 6-month, 10-member class, and the most comprehensive hands-on training Jerry Jenkins, a 21-time New York Times bestselling author, has ever offered! “Being...
An Inside-Out Approach to Beauty

An Inside-Out Approach to Beauty

I look in the mirror and still see the face of a gawking 10 year-old who could challenge the children’s book heroine, Pippi Longstocking, as the homeliest girl in grade school. I even dressed like her for our class Halloween party that year, complete with oversized...
Between the Lines

Between the Lines

There’s more to you than meets the eye. If I were to interview you today, we’d start out with basic questions and basic answers. Questions I’m comfortable asking and answers you’re comfortable giving. But it couldn’t stay that way, not for very long. As an author, I...
What Do You Want?

What Do You Want?

“What do you want?” The thought stuck in my mind and it wouldn’t go away. There I was, packing my bag for a quick trip to visit my cousins, Janet and Judy, who lived in Arizona. A short hour flight from Denver and I’d be there. A girly getaway with shared McCann...
Campsite Six – Chapter 1

Campsite Six – Chapter 1

Campsite Six – Transit Chapter 1 The city stood erect and imposing. Crowds walled within its maze moved in streams of color and shadow, with an urban pulse coursing through each running, rattling member. Evie was one of them. Rushing through her morning routine...
The Catechism of Emily Pry

The Catechism of Emily Pry

The Catechism of Emily Pry Chapter 1 Fall, 1962, St. Mary’s Academy The photograph under the headline, “Infant Missing,” captured Millie’s curiosity—and she had more than most. Scanning the elaborate room in the picture, she recognized it. The one with the curved...
What a Good Marriage Can Do

What a Good Marriage Can Do

When couples get married they are sometimes described as newlyweds wearing rose-colored glasses. They only expect the “better” part of being in a marriage relationship, leaving the “worse” part to others. The rosiness blurs the lines between what might bring conflict,...
An Interpretation of the Book of Ruth

An Interpretation of the Book of Ruth

Ruth, the Moabitess, was Mahlon’s widow, Naomi’s daughter-in-law, the wife of Boaz, mother of Obed, grandmother of Jesse, and great-grandmother of David. Ruth was described in scripture in these many roles, each one a step of deep calling and clear purpose. The Book...
Red Sky at Morning: Easter comes with a warning

Red Sky at Morning: Easter comes with a warning

There is a thread of alarm running through the Easter story. You can read it in the first verse of John Chapter 20. Mary stood outside the tomb, before the sun had lifted its head to turn the horizon red, and saw that the stone—a stone too heavy for anyone to move—had...
His Place Prepared

His Place Prepared

His Place PreparedHe swung the door wide openTo show me a place real fineCould you make a few changes, I askedThat is, if you don’t mindPlace a wingback chair, right over thereIn the corner by the stairsThat’s where she’d read her Bibleand say her morning...
Simple – A Legacy

Simple – A Legacy

Simple stood on the stoop of his shop, wrist resting on the handle of a broom he often used, chin propped on top, watching people walk to or from wherever they were going or had gone. He welcomed the few nods and a seldom, “Simple,” given by those who knew him enough...
Campsite Six – Chapter 12

Campsite Six – Chapter 12

Campsite Six – Black Bear Chapter 12 Dark, dusty clouds puffed up behind the crackling, curving tires as the park ranger drove slowly along the gravel road. It was 6:00 p.m., dusk, and he had to get his rounds in before sunset, then back to the station and...
One to Light

One to Light

One to LightBlack as blue can beA dark cacophonyWhose very essence screamsits intent and hasteningA shrewd malevolence needsa place of mediocrityAnd found a spot in core and heartto rest its head and do its partAnd as its indentation layimpressing spirits not to...
Jump, Act, Do this Christmas

Jump, Act, Do this Christmas

I am very happy you’ve joined me to read this post. But, I’m not always content, especially during the Christmas season. This is why I love God’s Words of Wisdom in Ecclesiastes. Ecclesiastes 8:1 (TLB) How wonderful to be wise, to understand things, to be...
When Men Cry

When Men Cry

“You look beautiful when you cry,” my mother said looking into my glistening brown eyes. I was no stranger to tears. I had experiences as a young girl that made crying come easy. Whenever I was hurt, afraid, even embarrassed, my face would contort against my will,...
Courage to Change

Courage to Change

Every time I see a crumpled or folded up piece of tissue I think of Mom. She tucked them into at least one pocket of every article of clothing she wore and in the cushions of the furniture she sat in. They irritated me! Wet and shredded in the washing machine,...