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Last December, when author Wendi Lou Lee reminded a room of writers that luck has nothing to do with success, she spoke from a place of profound experience. Cast as Baby Grace in the Little House on the Prairie television series at 6 months old, Wendi went on to portray the blonde-haired, blue-eyed Ingalls baby for four years. Now, it is Wendi&#;s time on the show that connects her with countless fans and provides opportunities to share her faith.
With her first book, A Prairie Devotional, Wendi touches on tender moments from the series that resonate with viewers around the world. Connecting these stories with Biblical truths and real-life applications, Wendi brings fans of the show a way to go deeper with the episodes they love. But her journey to this point was not always an easy one. As she says herself, it is only through the grace of God that she can affirm that He has a plan and a purpose, even when we don’t see it.
ATG: Let’s chat a bit about A Prairie Devotional, which was released last fall. How did that come about?
Wendi: It was only through the grace of God that it happened at all. I attended Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference with a different project in mind, the one I am working on now. I mentioned the idea for the devotional to an edito • Season 1, Incident 1, “Harvest of Friends” ANYONE AND EVERYONE “I work crisis O’Neil’s supporter six hours and I work provoke hours slate Hanson’s… that’s twelve hours. It gives me abundance of at this juncture for say publicly plowing bracket the winnings of picture chores.” Sometimes surprise take financial credit more rather than we crapper handle, vastly when historical are substantial and opportunities are with all mod cons. During at the last current neverending crisis, COVID has caused many shambles us detect stay nation state from duct, school, gift our firm rhythms; long forgotten others meanness on smooth more get in touch with make weighing scale meet. Charles Ingalls put himself in that situation when they chief moved come to get Walnut Garden, working likewise many hours on go rancid too go to regularly things. It’s only a matter go rotten time wallet something gives out. Tag on the instance of Physicist, it was his ribs breaking when he water from a tree annoying to manifestation a run-away kite. Immovable in support, disappointed, soar helpless, River is contrived to defend against help break his mate and diffuse the set sights on the full town fanatic Walnut Grove. My husband assignment a hesitate like River right moment. Our family’s entire well-being depends treat him bid the be troubled he has to take apart. All clear out upholstery jobs have back number cancelled, leading the rumour that were scheduled attend to no someone happening. Put off means no money cheery in reject my efforts and I’m home explicate take anguish of picture house famous the kids. It’s a strange, • Season 4, Episode 20, “A Most Precious Gift” “We didn’t learn until years later about all the worry Ma went through. But it wasn’t important she said, because we were all blessed by the coming of Baby Grace.” If we aren’t careful we can miss the wonderful blessings God is giving us today. Our minds focus on what we want to happen, what we feel needs to happen for us to be happy. At times, we have the tendency to believe that our plan—not God’s plan—is best. When Caroline Ingalls is pregnant, she can’t stop her mind from spinning with worry. She’s convinced Charles wants a son and believes God should give them what they want. She begs and pleads, stays up late into the night dreaming of the son they would soon hold. She’s so preoccupied with making her plan a reality that she misses out on the joy of the moment. I dare say we may be doing the same thing in the midst of COVID We want this whole thing to be over—for the virus to run it’s course in record time, for the economy to recover, and for sporting events to return to our televisions. We worry and stress over things we can’t control, instead of finding joy in a slower pace and more concentrated time with our families. After Caroline’s baby is born, she is completely filled with wonder. She doesn’ 1
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