About the Writer
Sonia L Murray is a servant of Jesus Christ, wife, mom, and grandma. She is a graduate of Life Pacific University in leadership and ministry, has a colorful 30-year career in local, regional, and overseas volunteer service, and especially enjoys traveling to experience different peoples and cultures, near and far.
Planted on the family ranch at the foot of the Pryor Mountains in South-Central Montana, USA, Sonia spends her summers working as a part-time tractor/loader/semi operator, ranch-house manager, and unofficial neighborhood porch hospitality coordinator.
During the winter months, Sonia gratefully relishes the extraordinary setting in which her writing desk is situated. Her creative inspiration is drawn from a sweet-water well dug from the pages of her bible and a rich, eclectic life story. Her contemplative word-pictures are set to paper in the solitude of her firelit, music-infused, family-kissed home – all surrounded by breathtaking mountain ranges, painted deserts, teeming wildlife, and a never-ending chain of stunning sunrises and sunsets.
About the Name
Though the name One-Legged Sojourner is packed with personal meaning, it really just dripped from pen to paper literally seconds after sitting down with a notepad to wrestle through the name-selecting process. It’s like that sometimes when inviting Abba to have his way in our endeavors. In truth, writing is his gracious gift to me, so who better to put a name to the place of its tendering? I look forward to discovering the fullness of its meaning along with my readers.
Here’s what I know:
First, though I’m not physically missing a leg, I know that without my Deliverer to shoulder the weight of my human deficiency and carry the lantern in the dark, I’m really nothing but a one-legged ditch-dweller – looking real busy trying to right myself and get where I want to go, but really just awkwardly striving and getting nowhere.
Second, I know that I am only a sojourner in this world – just passing through on my way home. While we, the adopted siblings and servants of King Jesus, are joined together into one body and are all heading for the same destination – our personal paths and collected stories along the way are as unique and intricate as our own fingerprints. The stories I offer are unique to me but, God willing, resonant in a world that cannot satisfy or contain those traveling (or desiring to travel) in the same general direction, toward our sweet homeland.
"...until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves...
Ephesians 4:13-14a
