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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.
Nothing says quality like
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weeks before venturing out
on their own. They are still
calling in the morning and
evening in late summer.
A group of Pee-wees are
referred to as a <squirt= or a
<dribble= of Pee-wees.
For more Western Wood
Pee-wee photos visit http://
abirdsingsbecauseithasa
song.com/recent-journeys.
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