Editor’s Letter
December 2011 - Editor
by Lori Hatcher
I fell in love with words and the power of words as a fledgling writer in sixth grade English class. I will never forget the comment my teacher scrawled in red at the bottom of my essay. “I like your interesting verbs, Lori,” she wrote. “You are going to be a great writer someday.” Her words cast a lofty goal that I may never attain, but they conveyed the unwritten message, “I believe in you.” Her words were much more valuable than the A+ that followed.
I fell in love with Jesus, whom the Bible calls The Word, as a frightened teenager sandwiched between high school and college. Overwhelmed with the responsibility of making decisions that would chart the course of my life, I eagerly embraced the opportunity to yield my life to Someone much wiser than I. “If any of you lack wisdom,” my pastor quoted to me from James 1:5, “let Him ask of God who gives to all men liberally without finding fault, and it will be given to him.” I asked that day, and have continued to ask ever since. God continues to be faithful to give.
