Author: Linda@heartponderings.com

Probably one of my greatest fears growing up was being rejected and judged as inferior. That fear was front and center for me in 1999. I had been searching for twenty-two years for the reason behind my children’s puzzling behavior…

Many readers of my memoir have been telling me what an amazing woman I am because of the way I maintained my sanity while dealing with insurmountable obstacles. I almost responded to one of them, “I’ve worked hard at it.”…

Miss George appears first in our lives in 1982 and in my memoir, A Long Awakening to Grace, on page 93. She accompanies us on our journey for a year and through page 95. She was the best teacher my…

In my memoir, A Long Awakening to Grace, I write about angels who appeared in my life. Some were there to teach me lessons. Some were there to give support during rough times. And some were there to show me…

I believe that most of us long to be heard and understood. Before I retired as an Imago Therapist, a major part of my work with couples involved helping them hear and understand each other. Imago Therapists teach couples a…

This post was originally written on September 4. It is a bit dated. I’m late in posting it because when I returned from my trip to the MDF conference in San Francisco (September 7-10), my experience there was more pressing….

“…for when I am weak, then I am strong.” ~II Cor. 10b Due to website problems preventing subscribers from receiving posts, this is a re-post of my September 11 post. The most important instruction given to those writing a memoir is…

In my July 2016 post titled A Second Chance, I reflected upon my daughter’s inability to continue working and need to move in with me following her surgery. I wrote, “The treasure I found is the ‘opportunity’ my daughter’s living with…

A Long Awakening to Grace: a memoir of loss and discovery by Linda A. Marshall, M.Div. has been published by Emergings Press of Dayton, Ohio. Marshall’s deeply moving memoir was introduced at the Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation conference in San Francisco…

“…for when I am weak, then I am strong.” ~II Cor. 10b The most important instruction given to those writing a memoir is to be honest about our shortcomings and to be generous in describing others so as not to demonize…