Podcast: Living Inspired: Judy Morrow | Shirley Showlater

Living Inspired ~ Thursday 3CT (1/2/13)

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 This week on Living Inspired, please welcome the author of The Listening Heart (Regal, 2013), Judy Gordon Morrow  and author of Blush: A Mennonite Girl Meets a Glittering World (Herald Press, 2013) Shirley Hershey Showalter.

If you’re reading this after 1/2/13 you’ll be able to find this show . . . and all my shows in the archive section.

For your chance to win a copy of The Listening Heart or Blush: A Mennonite Girl Meets a Glittering World, sign up below. Winner will be announced on Friday right here.

**Due to shipping cost, giveaway open to US residents only**

More about Judy: Judy Gordon Morrow is a lifelong lover of words and has published poetry, articles, song lyrics, and devotionals. Her first book dealt with pregnancy loss, followed by nine gift books. In her prior “word-lover jobs,” she served as a school librarian, newspaper copyeditor, and nonfiction editor at Multnomah Publishers. She speaks at events for women and writers, sharing her passion for the Word and words.

Connect with Judy: Website, Facebook, Blog

More about The Listening Heart:  More. Life is full to overflowing, but we crave an illusive more. Via social networking, airwaves, and TV, our culture tells us to strive for more stuff, more activities, more adventure—you name it. Yet we are often left unfulfilled and wanting. Empty, even. With so many demands for our attention, it is difficult to quiet our minds long enough to hear the still, small voice of our loving Father, and to listen to the One who desires to bring us so much more than the noise of everyday life.

Judy Gordon Morrow discovered the more when her world was turned upside down and she knelt before God to seek Him and ask for His help. More than a decade ago, in tear-stained notebooks, she began to pen God’s responses to her desperate prayers. Now, in The Listening Heart, Judy invites you to spend a year hearing from the God Who Speaks—the God who wants to speak to you. Each daily devotion echoes the Father’s love and care for you, offering hope, comfort, encouragement and more—a rich closeness with God that will satisfy the longings of your heart.

Purchase your copy here.

More about Shirley: Shirley Hershey Showalter grew up on a Mennonite family farm near Lititz, Pennsylvania. The first person in her family to go to college, she eventually became the first woman president of Goshen College in Indiana, a national liberal arts college noted for its commitment to peace and international service learning. She joined the Fetzer Institute in 2004, a private operating foundation with this mission: “to foster awareness of the power of love and forgiveness in the emerging global community.” In 2010 she became a full-time writer living in Harrisonburg, Virginia. She has won awards for excellence in each of the fields she entered: teaching, higher education, leadership, and writing. Her memoir Blush: A Mennonite Girl Meets a Glittering World tells the story of a little girl who dreamed big and was transformed by dreams much bigger than her own.

Connect with Shirley: Website, Blog, Facebook

More about Blush: A Mennonite Girl Meets a Glittering World:  Part Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, part Growing Up Amish, and part Little House on the Prairie, this book evokes a lost time, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, when a sheltered little girl with big dreams entered a family and church caught up in the midst of the cultural changes of the 1950’s and `60’s. With gentle humor and clear-eyed affection, the author, who grew up to become a college president, tells the story of her first encounters with the glittering world and her desire for fancy forbidden things she could see but not touch.

The book contains many illustrations and resources, including recipes, a map, and an epilogue about why Showalter is still Mennonite. Topics covered include the death of a child, Pennsylvania Dutch cooking, the role of bishops in the Mennonite church, the paradoxes of plain life (including fancy cars and the practice of growing tobacco). The drama of passing on the family farm and Mennonite romance and courtship, as the author prepares to leave home for college, create the final challenges of the book. Purchase your copy here. a Rafflecopter giveaway