Columnist for Crossmap

[writegirl1949]

I have been accepted as a contributing columnist for a great website, Crossmap (http://www.crossmap.com). The columns appear under the Spiritual Growth section and began last week with a series on The Beatitudes. These are three-part columns that will appear each week. I can't tell you how blessed I feel to have been accepted as a contributor. I've wanted to break in to the inspirational field for a long time. My prayer is that God will use my words to help others grow stronger in their Christian life. And, this is a great website with a lot of talented writers, great links to Christian news, and other inspirational information.

Blessings, Francine

[DrRita]

Praise the Lord, Francine!! You go girl. I'm so happy for you and I just know God will greatly use your column. I think it's so great. God Bless!thumbsup!

[writegirl1949]

Thanks, Dr. Rita. Hey, let's celebrate together!thumbsup!

Blessings, Francine

PS T minus 15 days and counting.:p

[Kaylyn63]

Francine,

Congratulations! I'll be checking in. :)

Kaylyn

[ellenjames]

Congratulations, Francine.
May God bless you and your writing!
Ellenjames
www.freewebs.com/wayber

[Keith Wallis]

God give you every blessing as you bless others with your words.
Keith

[Merry]

Congratulations! !thumbsup! !thumbsup! !thumbsup! !thumbsup!

[ChrisPilkington]

Francine, I enjoyed reading your column on the beautitudes. Thanks for your writing. Congratulations!

[MsSherry]

Can someone help me find the column? I clicked on spiritual growth, and it took me to lists and when I clicked on a link, I got more lists. I must be having a brain malfucntion or something-hehe

thanks for the directions in advance

[writegirl1949]

Thanks you all for your kind words.

Ms Sherry ... the easiest way is to go to the home page http://www.crossmap.com and then click on columns. Scroll down a bit and you'll see the names of all contributing writers and look for Francine Biere (easy cos I'm in the B's, lol). While my column is occasionally shown under the Spiritual heading, that sometimes changes to other columnists. Clicking on my name will take you to (or should) all of the columns so far. That should work. If not, give a shout and I'll try to help. Thank you for wanting to read them.

Bottom line ... this is God's working in my life but in all honesty, it was only AFTER I obediently followed some of the more difficult paths I needed to travel.

Blessings, Francine

[MsSherry]

I found it! !thumbsup!

Thanks so much. I had originally clicked on the wrong thing. I clicked "spiritual growth" in the purple box at the bottom and that is why I got all the links. LOL Silly me! :eek:

I'm off to finish reading it now:D

[Inspiredwriter]

Congratulations, Francine!

What wonderful news. Keep up the good work!

Blessings,

[writegirl1949]

Thank you all for your kind words and encouragement. You know, when I started the column, my first series was the Beatitudes and I pulled them from my blog, then submitted three parts for each one. I thought it wouldn't require too much work -- I knew the move back to the states would consume much of my time. Boy, was I wrong.

As I pulled each of the three parts together and prayed about God's guidance, I saw some things that needed fixing. Here's the thing -- God knew that working on my writing is one of the things that keeps me most close to Him. I feel a tremendous responsibility to be true to Him above everything else.

Talk about discipline ... :eek: But I'd rather be in His word than out of it.:)

Again, many thanks for your comments and checking out the column.

Blessings, Francine