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8 Wednesday, August 12, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon Lisa May releases devotional book Sisters Country birds By Jim Cornelius By Douglas Beall Editor in Chief Correspondent Independently publish- ing a new book in the midst of pandemic and upheaval poses challenges. Sisters author Lisa May launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the printing of her book last spring 4 just as the coro- navirus pandemic was shut- ting the country down. She persevered, and found an alternative means of funding the printing 4 and now has a beautifully crafted book in hand. <I never thought that this wasn9t going to happen,= May said. <I just always assumed that I was going to follow this through.= And the arrival of the book could not be more timely. <Transformed by God9s Nature: Finding Hope In God9s Character In The Midst Of Suffering= is crafted as a daily devotional. <It9s targeted to people who are suffering& finding God in the midst of suffer- ing,= May said. <We9re all kind of suffering right now, right?= May has experienced pro- found loss, and suffering so acute that it made her ques- tion her close-held faith. <I always knew on an intellectual level that life is not perfect just because I9m a Christian,= she said. <But there9s an undercurrent that if I9m doing the right things and making the right choices that life should be smooth and enjoyable and all those adjectives&. You have to study and understand who God is to understand that it9s a lot more complicated than that... It9s actually biblically promised that we will suffer.= Understanding the pur- pose behind such suffering brings comfort. <It offers comfort in God,= May said. She noted in a narrative describing her work that, <I learned that when life is pain- ful, confusing, and unpre- dictable, God9s unchanging character can be a relief 4 if you know Him for who He has revealed Himself to be. But when my understand- ing of God was inaccurate, then suffering left my faith on shaky ground. It took years of study in the Bible to find a firm foundation of trust in God that was not shaken in the most difficult circumstances.= Transformed by God9s Nature is a 23-week study on God9s character, based on a close study of Scripture, with each week focusing on a par- ticular attribute. <Each attribute has an illustration,= May explained. From 2012 to 2014, May had been actively involved in producing artwork in a As one walks around meadows and open back- yards, you are likely to hear a blurry sound <pee-wee, pee-wee,= often followed by a <pip, pip=. This is the call of a Western Wood Pee- wee (contopus sordidulus). This gray nonde- script flycatcher will perch on the end of a branch and quickly dart out and catch insects in the air and a small clap-clap sound is made when capturing the bugs or when protecting the nest area. In late spring a nest is built by the female in the fork of an aspen, pine, alder or cotton- wood. Spider webs are used to bind and camouflage the nest using fine grasses, bark strips, lichens, mosses and feath- ers. Two to four creamy white eggs are laid, which hatch in approximately two weeks, and the chicks leave the nest in 14 to 18 days. They are PHOTO BY DOUGLAS BEALL then fed by the par- ents for two to three Western Wood Pee-wee. PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK Lisa May’s heavily-illustrated devotional book “Transformed by God’s Nature: Finding Hope In God’s Character In The Midst Of Suffering” is now available in Sisters. technique she calls <paper layering.= It9s a time-con- suming process, and by the time she started on the book, she wasn9t actively working in the medium. But she dis- covered a means of produc- ing the same type of effect digitally in a much more time-expedient manner, and thus began to illustrate her writing with her original work. Full-color illustra- tions from cover to cover significantly contribute to the impact of the book. <That9s the thing that peo- ple are wowed by,= May said. <That9s what makes it a little bit different.= Transformed by God9s Nature: Finding Hope In God9s Character In The Midst Of Suffering is available at Paulina Springs Books in Sisters; at Amazon.com; and through logbridgebooks.com. Lisa May is an employee of The Nugget Newspaper. 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