FAY ROWE

In April I happened upon a blog by a young woman who lives on a farm somewhere in Ontario. I thought it was the most beautiful use of the language I had read in a long time. The words gently touched my heart and I was compelled to share it with my Facebook friends right away.

Some time later when I wanted to visit her site again, I couldn't remember where it was. I didn't have the FB savvy to realize I could scroll down and find the link, or even just check out my links! So I gave up.

This past weekend I attended Write! Canada, the annual conference of The Word Guild. At some point I asked someone about this "girl who lives on a farm and blogs" but she didn't know who it was.

Later, I went to a workshop on blogging by Ann Voskamp. At the beginning of her presentation, she read her first blog post. I listened enrapt as her words came together to paint a masterpiece. Breathtaking. I wanted them to hover around my ears for a while, they were so lovely.

I had never quite experienced that before, except perhaps years ago when God's words became life in my heart. Now, although Ann's words weren't revealing Biblical truth to me, they revealed truth about me to me, without judgement, without shame. With understanding and with beauty. In her honesty and purity of expression, as she "peeled back" her own heart, she peeled back my own.

And that was good.

And yes, it was her!

Find her beautiful words here:

www.aholyexperience.com