Drum roll, please ... I'm finally launching my first eBook! After weeks of writing, editing, and formatting, I’m excited to share with you: Created for Community: On Mission to Mend. "In just a few short pages of sharp, witty, Biblical truths, Susanne Maynes points us to God's created need in every human: other humans! By design, God made us needy for community, and Susanne shares insightful wisdom that will minister into the craving of every human heart." -- Clem Ferris, ThD // Grace Churches International The Powerful Message in this Little Book Based on my Continue Reading
3 Reasons It’s Important to Grieve after Miscarriage
The daylight looked all wrong for a June morning in Las Vegas. The sun should have been so bright I'd need to angle the blinds to keep it out. Instead, it looked weak and pale, though there wasn't a cloud in the sky. Turns out, the moon eclipsed the sun that day. Just as sorrow eclipsed my soul. Days earlier, twenty weeks pregnant, I'd received devastating news from my midwife. "I'm so sorry, but the ultrasound technician couldn't find a heartbeat." She went on to explain something about fetal demise at seventeen weeks. I struggled to process her words. No heartbeat. Fetal Continue Reading
How a Timid Girl Gained a Voice for the Voiceless
Remember that shy kid in your grammar school class? The timid, sensitive kid who was anxious to follow the rules and get good grades? The last kid you’d go to for help if a bully picked on you? That kid was me. Not that I was apathetic; it’s just that my feelings had a hard time finding their way out of my mouth. It’s like I was wired with perpetual inner conflict between my strong values and my distaste for conflict. Does that sound familiar? The one place I found I could pour out my heart without holding back was with pen and paper. A sixth grade essay, a smattering of Continue Reading
Five Reasons You Need “Not Marked”
She was only five years old when it started. Two teenage brothers came to her babysitter’s house and offered to take her for a while. Mary went with them, an innocent lamb. They took her to forests, to ravines, to their own bedroom. They took her again and again. They took her innocence and scarred her soul. But the story does not end there. Mary survived those episodes, along with the pain of rejection, poverty, and dealing with her parents’ addictions. She bravely tells of the redemption she found, and is finding, in Jesus. She tells her story not to be dramatic or sensational, but Continue Reading