IS IT WELL WITH M Y S O U L? by Jessica Brodie
Jessica Brodie is an award-winning journalist, author, blogger, editor, and devotional writer with thousands of articles to her name. She is the editor of the South Carolina United Methodist Advocate, the oldest newspaper in Methodism, which has won 116 journalism awards during her tenure. She is actively seeking publication for her fiction. Her novel, The Memory Garden, won the 2018 Genesis Award for Contemporary Fiction from the American Christian Fiction Writers. Her follow-up novel Tangled Roots won a third place Foundation Award in Contemporary Romance at the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference in 2019. Married, Brodie has four preteen children and stepchildren and lives outside Columbia, South Carolina.
FAITH ON EVERY CORNER
You know how people say all these terrific self-love things, like “I’m my own best friend” and “I love me”? Nope. That wasn’t me for most of my life. The truth is I never felt comfortable with myself until the last few years. I didn’t enjoy my own company, didn’t really like myself all that much, and when I had a day alone, I’d usually invent things to do—organizing photo albums, or cleaning the house top to bottom—just to stay occupied. I’d hoped it was something I’d grow out of, but when I hit my thirties and things still hadn’t changed, I knew it was something deeper.
