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.
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​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.​
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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 work out the best name for this space. I take no credit for its invention. In truth, writing is entirely God's generous 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.
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​Here’s what I know about being a one-legged sojourner so far:
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​First, though I’m not physically missing a leg, I know that, without my Rescuer/Helper to shoulder the weight of my human deficiency, and carry the lantern in the dark, I’m really just a one-legged ditch-dweller – looking very busy trying to stand upright and look like I've got it together and know where I'm going but, in reality, just kicking up dirt and getting tangled in the weeds of my own sowing.
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Second, I know that I am only a sojourner in this world, just passing through on my way home with a story to tell along the way: of being dead and then brought to life, and now learning how to walk and act like I'm alive and not dead going forward. This is the real challenge of navigating the "narrow road."
I am a one-legged sojourner – a daughter and servant in the family of Jesus, grappling with the challenges of navigating the “narrow road” in unprecedented times at the end of the age. My purpose here is to use the creativity lent to me, in story-form, to make a meaningful contribution to strengthen, encourage, and support my family of fellow sojourners as we face the unfamiliar “terrain” through which our narrow roads are leading us home.
This space is also a welcoming port of entry for anyone, everyone, who wants to investigate the claims of Jesus without pressure, or wants to make the decision be adopted into the family of Jesus.
Welcome!​​
"...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...
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Ephesians 4:13-14a
