In the crazy busy world of the preteen and teenage years, it is easy for mothers and daughters to grow apart if they are not intentional about spending time together. Chaplain Publishing’s newest book will help mothers and daughters reconnect through shared devotions. One day per week for the next year mothers and daughters will share, dream, laugh, and possibly even cry together.
You are invited to submit a devotional, story, vignette, or life lesson on a topic of interest to preteen/teenage girls. Then a mother/daughter team at Chaplain Publishing will add discussion questions or activities to go along with your submission.
Submission guidelines:
- Fewer than 400 words
- Must include a title
- If a Bible verse is included in your submission, the translation must be noted.
- Poems are acceptable
- Topic must be relevant to mothers and preteen/teenage daughters (suggested topics are listed below)
- Your submission must be in Microsoft Word
You will also prepare a 2 sentence bio with contact information to be included in an author index.
You may submit work you have published previously as long as you own the rights to it. All work must be written by you and not copied or adapted from any other source. You will be paid for your work by receiving a free copy of the devotional. (Authors in countries outside the U.S.A. will be asked to pay additional shipping charges.) Additional copies for resale may be purchased at a discounted author price.
The submission deadline is January 15, 2015. But please feel free to submit it earlier than the deadline to avoid forgetting about it during the holiday season.
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Sample submission:
Beauty Burns
It happened at a candlelight service at church. We were kneeling at the altar praying together. I guess I was growing a little bored with the long prayers of the adults because I decided to move my candle a bit closer to my face. On tv the actresses always looked so attractive with their face aglow in candlelight. I wondered if I did too.
Then I smelled something strange. Something was burning, but I didn’t know what it was. Before I realized what I smelled, the man who was praying stopped his prayer mid sentence and started hitting me in the head! Once he put the fire out I realized that I really was attractive—at least the hairspray in my bangs sure attracted the fire.
This incident happened almost 30 years ago and still every single time there is a candle around someone in my family or at that church warns me to stay far away from it. I will never live down my ill-fated attempt at beauty.
Desiring beauty isn’t bad. Sarah in the Bible was so beautiful that two different rulers tried to marry her. Esther’s beauty landed her as the queen of the Persian Empire where she was able to rescue her people. Beauty itself is fine, but there are right and wrong ways of pursuing it. Taking care to brush and fix your hair so it looks pretty—right. Being impatient at your slow-to-develop figure and stuffing your bra—wrong. Wearing cute clothes that flatter your body type—right. Holding a candle close enough to your face to set your hair on fire—wrong.
So the next time you pursue beauty, ask yourself first if God would approve of the way you are going about it.
Topic Suggestions:
- bad memories
- being kind
- best day ever
- Bible study
- Biblical womanhood
- books
- boys
- cell phones
- chores
- clothes
- cooking
- dating
- differences
- eating healthy
- exercise
- family
- friends
- future plans
- games
- grades
- how you want to improve
- identity
- Jesus
- labels
- learning
- loving others
- makeup
- manners
- money
- movies
- music
- peer pressure
- people to meet
- pets
- places to go
- rewards
- schoolwork
- sewing
- siblings
- similarities
- social media
- special memories
- special powers you would like to have
- sports
- stereotypes
- strength
- things to learn
- tools
- traits of a woman
- what you like about yourself
- wisdom
- witnessing
- woman to avoid being like
- women to emulate
