Just seeing the name of this dear sister-in-Christ makes me smile every time. Donna Schlachter is the author of A Prickly Affair, the sixth novella in the collection, A Bouquet of Brides. Donna and I go way back. God is so good! We had no idea all those years ago that someday the Lord would again weave our writing journeys together, giving of the great pleasure being published in the same collection. (Thank you, Jesus!)
From the beginning of our experience together I knew Donna to be a conscious, servant-hearted, capable leader with a quick smile and wit.
When I served as president of the north Denver chapter of ACFW, Donna served as treasurer. She was wonderful, handling details that would have bogged me down on top of keeping the books, a job I think only a saint would sign up for.
The picture below, taken November of 2010, is of the His Writer’s board the day we hosted our first writer’s conference. We were thrilled to have teacher extraordinaire and multi-published author, Susan May Warren, as our speaker for the day. She’s standing between Donna and me in the picture below. On the other side of me is Linda Ables, who served as treasurer, and Jill Hups, who was vice-president at the time. Donna and I have laughed together over email about this day, which had its own foibles and learning curves, but still offered wonderful instruction to area writers.
I’m grateful for all Donna did to make our board run smoothly and for the encouragement she so often was to me personally. Her desire for excellence and her wisdom was such an asset! The Lord also used her to speak some thing into my life that I hadn’t understood about myself.
Looking back to those years we served together, its fun for me to relive Donna and my developing friendship. It’s a testimony to how God knits hearts together and how deeply we need people who help us see new perspectives.
Donna and I liked and respected each other from the beginning, but I’m not sure we always understood each other. It seemed we often saw things in leadership from the opposite perspective! What’s so beautiful about that is we soon learned that sharing our ideas, even when we differed, made the outcome better for everyone. Donna was definitely the balance I needed as I grew as a leader in this position.
It is with deep love and gratitude that I think of this special friend and all we shared together during those days of serving. Donna is incredibly faithful and giving, and we’ve been cheering each other’s journeys for a while. I’m so grateful God chose us to be friends and blessed the love we share by allowing us to be published together in A Bouquet of Brides.
Before I close, I wanted to let you know about Donna’s daily devotion, Transformation, which releases TODAY! Talk about a God-thing! I pre-scheduled these “friend” posts about my fellow authors. Then I heard Donna had a devotional book releasing, so I decided to add that information this post. THEN I discovered I’d already scheduled the blog about Donna on the very day Transformation releases! Isn’t that cool? I love these little gifts of the Father.
Here is a blurb about the book:
Transformation offers 366 devotions that will chronologically walk you through the Bible in a year
If you’ve ever wished you could start a devotional at some time throughout the year other than January 1st, then this is the devotional for you! Each day is numbered, so you can start any day of the year and still walk through the Bible in a year
If you like to start out the year on the right foot on January 1st, then this is the devotional for you!
However you like to structure your quiet time, today is the absolute best time to start!
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You can check out Donna’s other publications on her Amazon author page.
Until next time when we meet the final author of the collection, Pegg Thomas,
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Thank you! And so far you’ve been entered twice in the drawing. The comment and the blog sign-up!
Thank you for the spotlight. The collection of novellas sounds great. All the authors are new to me; I love discovering new authors through a novella collection!
So glad you’re getting to know all of us! Looking forward to interacting here on my blog. And now you’ve been entered in to win a book, too!
Love seeing the photos! I feel like I am getting to know some great people. 🙂
They really are great people! I love your comments. Thank you. And you’re being entered into the drawing once for each blog post you comment on. Good luck. You’re making this fun!
Love these comments!
Wow interesting she has done a lot ..both her devoinal she and book about brides sound great…thanks for the chance to win.
Thank you Rory for coming by and meeting my friends. Good luck on the drawing! And each blog post you comment on means another chance to win!
Thank you for introducing this book that I now want to read!
Maybe you’ll win the drawing, lol. But if you can’t wait, you know where to find it. Thank you so much for dropping by and meeting my friends.
Thank you for introducing us to Donna! I enjoyed reading about her and I love that her devotional book will walk the reader through the Bible chronologically. I have read the Bible chronologically for years, and it’s been a tremendous blessing in my life. I can’t imagine starting the day without reading God’s Word. Blessings to you both!