Your story is bigger than you know.
From its tiniest details to its most dramatic events, your story is a sacred gift, worthy of attention. But how do you find and tell that story?
In this practical, liberating guide based on her thirty years of writing and teaching, Leslie Leyland Fields will lead you step by step in exploring your past and shaping your memories into vivid, compelling stories. With writing exercises to help you dive deeper into your story, you'll discover new spiritual truths, reclaim the past, share hope, and pass on your own extraordinary legacy.
Understanding God's work in our stories is a vital part of our faith. Not just a book for writers, this practical and inspiring book teaches us how to sift through our experiences to find the places we have witnessed God in our journey: the mysterious, the tragic, the miraculous, and the ordinary.
Find even more inspiration and guidance with Your Story for His Glory, a companion video curriculum-available online or in DVD format.
"Leslie was not only my first writing mentor-she continues to mentor me with the way she lives her life and shapes it into an unforgettable story that gives hope and gives God the glory." -Ann Voskamp, New York Times bestselling author
"Leslie has a deep commitment to writing life-giving words. This book promises to prompt the best out of storytellers and creatives." -Max Lucado, New York Times bestselling author
"Personal and profound, inspirational and practical, God-focused and with its feet firmly placed on the ground, this is a necessary and beautiful book for anyone and everyone." -Brett Lott, New York Times bestselling author, director of MFA program at the College of Charleston
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Leslie Leyland Fields is an internationally recognized speaker, teacher, and multi-award winning author of fourteen books including Your Story Matters, Forgiving Our Fathers and Mothers, Surviving the Island of Grace, and Crossing the Waters: Following Jesus through the Storms, the Fish, the Doubt and the Seas, which won CT's "Christian Living Book of the Year." Her books have been translated into nine languages. Her essays have appeared in Christianity Today, Books and Culture, Belief.net, The Atlantic, Best Essays and many others, earning her a number of Evangelical Press Awards. With three graduate degrees, Leslie has taught extensively at the undergraduate and graduate level. Currently she leads faith and writing retreats around the world and directs the Memoir Masterclass, a large online community for spiritual memoir. Since 2013 she's been leading The Harvester Island Writers' Workshop on her family's island in Alaska (with guests Philip Yancey, Ann Voskamp and many others) as well as Your Story Matters Retreats in Kodiak. She lives on Kodiak Island during the winters, and summers, lives on a wilderness island, Harvester Island, where she works with her family in commercial salmon fishing.