About Me-The Writer

“I live in my own little world. It’s ok, they know me here.” 

So reads a little wooden sign hanging on the wall above my bed, and there never was a truer statement. My name is Laura Emily Rose Jenkins, and I am a writer, writing for the glory of my savior, Jesus Christ.

I wasn’t always a writer, and to be quite honest with you, becoming a writer was not on my list of thing I wanted to be when I grew up, far from it. Reading was very difficult for me because of a mild case of dyslexia and problems with the muscles in my eyes, and, I hated it. You would never catch me reading, it was boring and too hard. But God had a plan for me that was much bigger than my reading problems. One day I picked up a book, on my own, and began reading. It was slow and very difficult, but I read that whole book by myself. Since then, you will more often than not find me with my nose in a book.

The day God called me to be a writer is a day I shall never, ever forget. It was October 9th, 2006.  There I was, just beginning to map out my very first novel and I wasn’t sure if I should make it “Christian” or not. Part of me was afraid that if I made it a “Christian” novel, it would be too cliché. I had nearly decided to drop the Christian elements and just go for a regular old fantasy tale when I opened my Bible to this verse: “Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book that it may be for the time to come forever and ever,” Isaiah 30:8. I have never felt more speechless in my life then at the moment I read those words.

God is truly amazing. He took a little girl who hated to read and made her into a lover of words. God wanted me, me of all people to be his writer. The journey has been anything but easy and is far from over, but I know that as long as He’s in charge, everything will be alright. I am a writer, and I wouldn’t trade being that for anything in the world.

Why I am a Writer…
I strive to write stories that reflect my faith in Jesus Christ and shine a light in our darkening culture. I want to give to the world a piece of the love, hope and joy I found in a personal relationship with Christ and to give them a glimpse of God’s wondrous imagination.

“The only just literary critic,” he concluded, “is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed.” 
~J.R.R. Tolkien

“We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming ‘sub-creator’ and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic ‘progress’ leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.” ~J.R.R. Tolkien

Philippians 3:13-14
Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. (NIV)

Contact me at writingforhisglory@gmail.com

Fun Facts:

Favorites:

• Book – The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Movie – Sahara
• Author – J.R.R. Tolkien
• Second – Bryan Davis
• Band/artist – Owl City/Adam Young
• Books of the Bible – Romans, Isaiah, Psalms, Proverbs… lots.

Obsessions:

• Dragons
• Myths and Legends
• Exploring Ancient/Biblical cultures
• Anything Tolkien or Middle-Earth related