Bethany Kaczmarek, Author at Inspire A Fire

Inspire A Fire

Bethany loves to share her own journey of healing and redemption with anyone who needs it. Back from the Polish mission field, her family often opens their Maryland home is to twenty-somethings who come over for a listening ear (though she’s willing to admit it could also be for the board games and food). Bethany is passionate about making room for the New Adult niche in the inspirational market, so she writes about young people who wrestle with newfound independence, who struggle to make counter-cultural choices, and who live with integrity in both the workplace and the world. Her unpublished manuscript Afraid to Dance won the 2013 Novel Rocket Launchpad Contest in Contemporary Romance, a Frasier Bronze medal, and honorable mention at the Blue Ridge Mountain Christian Writers Conference. A member of ACFW, the My Book Therapy Voices, and the Light Brigade Writers Group, Bethany writes about the places where grit meets Grace.

Sometimes a Heart Needs to Thaw (Motherhood Resented)

March 21, 2015 Bethany Kaczmarek Home

Once upon a time, I had only three goals. (1) Become a teacher. (2) Become a wife and mother. (3) Become a missionary. I never bothered to prioritize. Any order in which the Lord allowed

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What Love Is And What We Should Do About It

February 7, 2015 Bethany Kaczmarek Culture

No thanks, Hollywood. I’ll get my definition of love somewhere else. In a culture already rife with human trafficking and pornography addiction (much of it violent), we don’t need an ought-to-be-X-rated film to try to

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Moving and Bridge-Building

January 17, 2015 Bethany Kaczmarek Culture

Missionaries move a lot. Our three-year-old Giant tagged along as we traveled from place to place. To place. From his home in smalltown Poland to a missionary-house in South Carolina where his sister (Bean) joined

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Too Much About Comfort

June 21, 2014 Bethany Kaczmarek Culture

I am entirely too concerned with my own comfort. Granted, I’m thirty-nine weeks pregnant and stretched to my limit (in various ways). And in the last six months, I’ve had pneumonia, pleurisy, two kidney

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Suicide. Can There Be Hope in Our Suffering?

May 10, 2014 Bethany Kaczmarek Culture

by Bethany Kaczmarek Suicide. Such a tragic end. And the effects can’t be measured. This month, I walked through the shock and pain of this kind of loss with my fourteen-year-old. One of his teammates

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Freedom Is Not Free – But It’s Worth Whatever It Costs

April 26, 2014 Bethany Kaczmarek Culture

Everyone loves a hero. From tykes running around in capes and vanquishing imaginary foes to the victimized, huddled in their dark corners. I guess that’s why movies like X-Men, Avengers, and Man of Steel are

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Haunted: When Mercy Walks Onto the Battlefield

April 12, 2014 Bethany Kaczmarek Home

Noah State is repulsed by who he’s become. As a Liquidator, his assignment is to kill anyone who speaks against the government. However, whomever, whenever. The problem: Noah believes in genuine justice but despises the

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