Focused Reflections

by Marcia Lee Laycock

Marcia writes with simplicity and honesty and brings to the task a richness of insight that makes old truths leap and shine and freshly startle. These devotionals, though any one can be read in minutes, distill a lifetime of wisdom and inspire a day-to-day faithfulness. - Mark Buchanan Author of The Holy Wild and The Rest of God Marcia's work is always thoughtful, focused, sincere and tightly written. - Maxine Hancock, Ph.D. Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies & Spiritual Theology, Regent College Marcia writes inspiring devotionals woven together with strands of everyday life events and God's living Word. - Pastor Tim Davis Westside Bible Church, Victoria, BC Cybersalt Communications www. cybersalt.org Marcia's carefully crafted stories are proof that great truth is taught in simple ways. Don't buy a copy of this book. Buy a dozen for friends and relatives! - Phil Callaway Popular speaker and author of The Edge of the World and Wonders Never Cease With an emphasis on those special occasions when an apt word needs to be spoken, Focused Reflections provides inspirational thoughts that can be read over and over. Many have requested this addition to Marcia's first devotional book, The Spur of the Moment.

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 30, 2005

About the author

Squirreled away in the attic of my parents' house, I began writing short stories for my dolls. They didn't complain so I kept writing. Then I got to go to school where some wonderful teachers encouraged me.

I published my first piece of writing in grade ten under the watchful eye of a rather unorthodox nun. In my last year of high school another teacher managed to stop me from writing for a while, when she said, "If you have nothing of significance to say, don't you dare write!" I decided I had to go out and find some significant things.

That led me to travel and to experience life's ups and downs across this broad and beautiful country. I've explored almost every province in Canada, including the territories, lived in four of them. Been to Europe and Israel a couple of times, but my heart is split between the wilderness of the Yukon and the jungles of Papua New Guinea.

I am captivated by the lure of large bodies of water and mountain vistas. My heart pounds with the rhythm of a galloping horse, flies with the frenzy of a hummingbird, whirs with the mystery of a dragonfly. I write to reveal the glory of God in this world and in my life.

Tag Line - Writing with the rhythms of a galloping horse, the mystery of a dragonfly, the beauty of a hummingbird