People say: God will never give you more than you can handle.
That’s actually never found in scripture. What is found in scripture are things like:
Category: About Hallee
I Am Not Alone
My Writing Goals for the Year (And How I’m Already Behind!)
Happy New Year, friends! Welcome to 2026 – with an exciting, blank slate in front of us! Here are my writing goals this year: Write and Publish: Flames of Suspicion (February, I hope) Flames of Hope (April) Flames of Justice (June) Those will be books 5-7 in the Red Blood & Bluegrass series. Threads of Deception (maybe …
Talking About Made for More by Josh Baldwin
I’m talking about what the lyrics of “Made for More” meant to me as it pertains to our son’s tragic death and our future.
Monday Morning Coffee and Chat – Episode 155
Welcome to Monday Morning Coffee and Chat! Today I’m talking about the American Christian Fiction Writers Conference we attended last week!
Ready to Forgive
One thing I had to do was definitively forgive the people who rented our house – Tony and Angel. They destroyed it – cost us $150,000 to repair it and we’re not done yet. We still have the basement to fix. Their negligence ripped us out of our life and forced a new life on …
Monday Morning Coffee and Chat 6/2/25 – And We’re Back!
Monday Morning Coffee and Chat is back! This morning we’re just catching back up.
Refreshed, Reset, and Fri-YAY
Happy Fri-YAY! I’m fresh back from my annual spring writer’s retreat. I joined Susan May Warren, Lacy Williams, Misty Beller, Robin Patchen, and Tracy Higley for four-and-a-half wonderful days of talking, praying, crying, laughing, more laughing, plotting books, and talking strategy. We went over things that worked last year (obviously, I didn’t get to take …
What Parents Wished You Knew About the Grief of Losing a Child
I was added to a “Loss of a child” support group right after Jeb’s funeral. I don’t post a lot there because that’s not how I process this, but it regularly appears in my newsfeed because it’s a local group to where we used to live and I think there’s some algorithm that helps that …
This is Our Grief
This image floored me. How could something as complex as the grief of having a child ripped away weeks before his 15th birthday be conveyed so astutely? We still live. We laugh. We experience. We enjoy. We plan. We teach. We minister. We love and are loved. And the entire time, there’s this giant abyss …
29 Good Years
Today is my husband Gregg’s last day in military uniform. He is finishing up his National Guard drill day and will take those boots off for the last time. He will officially retire from the United States Army on Tuesday. He’s been in for 29 years, has served in combat zones for 8 years – …