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I’m Melanie.

When I was a little girl, I was completely and utterly obsessed with Anne of Green Gables.

That’s one of the most important things you could ever know about me. All 8 books are my favorite. They were a gift from my beloved grandmother, and I read them every single summer. All 8. All the way through.

And I’m sure I cried every time.

A bookworm from birth, I wrote my first "novels" about pioneers (loosely based on Laura Ingalls, of course) and read Anne of Green Gables (all 8, of course) more times than I can count. My love of storytelling (and penchant for editing all my friends' school papers and college essays) led me to study journalism at Belmont University, where I honed my writing, editing and communications skills as editor of the newspaper and captain of the debate team. These days, I'm still a bookworm with a masters degree in theology from Covenant Seminary and almost a decade of professional editing, writing and marketing experience. I serve as a Ministry Director at Christ Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tenn. and am currently pursuing at Doctor of Ministry degree at Covenant Seminary. I love to bake (especially bread), run, and pretend that I will have a clean house one day (despite having three delightful children). I live in a story-filled Civil War town, love to debate theology with my friends, and escape to the mountains whenever I can.

I like to find whispers of God in the everyday and the extraordinary, and I strive to find more-than-whispers of Him in my own life. I live a messy life in a broken world, but I believe that God is in everything, everywhere, always.

“And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.”
– Wendell Berry