The written word is such a gift to us.

Pre-dating the written word we depended on oral history and I can just imagine how that changed history throughout the years. So starting with the Bible

and God giving us the gift of his story, the best-selling book of all time. You know, the scripture says that God's word is alive

and active. And it is so true because this ancient book that took place forever ago, It speaks to me every single day. It speaks to what is happening here for me in 2016 down to the very details of what I have going on that day and I think God's word is a different

gift.

Welcome to the Experience Jesus Calling podcast.

Amy Parker has written more than 30 books for children, teens, and adults, including the best selling

a night night prayer.

She has also written a new devotional for children called Faith, Hope, Love Devotional. Amy reflects on what first inspired her love for writing

and how she came to realize her mission to bring Christ's

loved to children through the gift of the written word.

I'm Amy Parker and I'm a writer. I mostly write children's books but I've adapted some books for teens and I've written non-fiction for adults too so a little bit of everything. But through it all I really just try to help people

connect to a God who is real and right here with us and loves us more than we can ever imagine.

So I just hope that whatever it is I'm writing,

that is the message that comes through.

I grew up in a tiny town east of Nashville.

It's called Watertown. That's where I went to school for 13 years.

And you've probably seen it in a country music video or two. It's definitely a Mayberry town where I grew up. I grew up with two brothers, one older and one younger, so I was always one of the boys. We climb trees, we rode bikes around the block, we looked for crawdads in the creek. I got chased with snakes

But on Sundays I was dressed in my pink ruffles from head to toe thanks to my mom and my dad on the way to church my dad would fish tail his 66

Pontiac GTO down the gravel road to church the three of us sliding around in the

back seat my mom yelling Louis and then we would all crawl out in our Sunday best smiling

So we had a lot of fun. It was it was an adventurous childhood just good wholesome fun climbing peach trees and playing in the creeks and things like that.

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