It’s here! It’s here! Today is release day for my newest picture book, Wherever You Are.  

Eight years ago, on an ordinary Thursday afternoon, when my first-born grandson was just three years old and I had the enormous privilege of taking care of him, it was snowing.

He stood by the window in our front room, and as he watched the snow fall silently outside, he was so very still that I took a photo. After a moment, he turned to me and asked, in his three-year-old voice, Where’s God?

I did not know it then, but that ordinary moment on that ordinary day would become a picture book exploring the simple yet powerful premise that wherever you are, God is there.

Neither did I imagine that illustrator, Sian James, would use the photograph I took that long-ago day as the basis for one of the first illustrations, or that I would later appear in one of the pages. To see my grandson in the book, to find out why and where I’m in it, and of course, to enter the whopping FOUR-BOOK giveaway, read on… Continue reading →