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Celebrate with Me!

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I just hit the “SEND” button to deliver our manuscript to the Publisher right on time.  Awakening the Creative Spirit: Bringing the Arts to Spiritual Direction (co-authored with Betsey Beckman) is scheduled for publication in early February 2010 by Morehouse (SDI Imprint Series).  More details to come!  For right now I am just going to celebrate the completion of this phase of hard, hard work and what has been a labor of utter love and passion.  (oh and now to get some of my other work done . . .)

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8 Responses

  3. Christine, Congratulations to you and your co-author!
    I look forward to holding this book in my own hands and reading it with great joy.

  5. Celebrating with you all the way from Michigan!! Congratulations!! May some rest and refreshment of your choosing follow! Now, we have to wait until Feb, 2010 to hold in our hands and savor your creation…

  7. Congratulations, Christine. This is an amazing thing: to get an idea, to nurture the idea, and then to follow through to completion. Really, a small miracle, I think. :)