writing Archives | These Three Remain

01Sep201606Mar2017

More Than a Song: Thoughts on Creativity and Worship

Erica Hale Faith, Uncategorized faith, music, worship, writing 0 Comment

The piece below was written years ago; since then God has given me a lot of opportunity to think about what worship means to me and to the church. I have seen some beautiful examples of worship and some that make me sad. I have had moments leading worship where the voices of the […]

05May201505May2015

Memories of the Philippines (a poem)

Erica Hale Poetry, Writing poem about the Philippines, poetry, writing, ylang ylang 0 Comment

This poem comes from a conversation that I had tonight with dear friends, she is from Iceland and he’s from the Philippines. Listening to memories of a childhood spent picking mangoes and swimming in the warm sea was poetry in and of itself. Memories of what grew in Iceland and Montana were remarkably similar and […]

01Oct201403Oct2014

Flash Fiction: On the Dock

Erica Hale Fiction, Writing fiction, flash fiction, writing, writing prompt 2 Comments

This dock’s been in my family for a lotta years. A lot more years, I reckon, than most’ve the families who own cabins here on the lake now. You can see who’s old and who’s new by the way the outsides of the cabins look…old families, our cabins look like cabins. The new ones, […]

05Oct201010Jul2014

In, On, and Around…Ordinary

Erica Hale Uncategorized faith, in on and around, randomness, writing 3 Comments

I am sitting here, in the dark, the computer screen throws out a strange kind of light and in this unnatural halo I huddle and type. It is the quiet, in-between hour of the day, before the children wake and after I kiss my husband goodbye for the day, after I spend time in the […]

28Sep201010Jul2014

From the Novel I’m (Still) Not Writing

Erica Hale Uncategorized novel, writing 0 Comment

A bit from the “Novel I’m not writing” but seem to be thinking about a lot. This character has been living in my head for awhile and I know her pretty well. She makes me sad, she’s so young and has already gone through so much. Her story is awfully rough and I wish I […]

23Sep201010Jul2014

R.A.P.–Dusting Off a Poem

Erica Hale Uncategorized High Calling Blogs Poetry, Homeschool, random acts of poetry, writing 4 Comments

I open the book and the spine makes a stiff, cracking sound. This volume has sat on my bookshelf for many years, gathering dust. I realize, as I flip through the pages, that I have never read the Editor’s Note in the front. I do this now, and wonder why I didn’t before. It tells […]

27Aug201010Jul2014

More from the Novel I’m Not Writing

Erica Hale Uncategorized faith, novel, writing 2 Comments

I’ve been thinking about writing lately, dusting off my keyboard and working hard to pull myself out of the writing crash I experienced about a year ago. To be honest, there have been setbacks and struggles and I have not felt like writing on many days that I have…written anyway. On days when I feel […]

20Aug201010Jul2014

Cheesecake samples, and the novel I’m not writing

Erica Hale Uncategorized fiction, High Calling Blogs, novel, writing 2 Comments

Image via WikipediaI found this over at LL’s place, and I thought it was a great idea. Sometimes we get caught up in the serious-ness of writing and forget that it is fun. LL claims she is not a fiction writer, but the snippets of fiction that I have read on her blog make me […]

22Apr201018Mar2015

scarlet cord

Erica Hale Poetry, Writing faith, High Calling Blogs Poetry, poetry, writing 5 Comments

i am Rahab’s scarlet cord that torn and raveled scrap of faith twisting, blood red exposed against the cold gray stone I wrote this poem and then decided to write a whole post about the scarlet cord…but I love the idea that faith sometimes is this little, barely hanging-on type of feeling, a risk, hanging […]

13Jan201018Mar2015

Stunted

Erica Hale Poetry, Writing poetry, writing 6 Comments

i am the stunted poet pen in hand prose in mind battling the disconnect between the two