Journaling as a Spiritual Practice

Journaling as a Spiritual Practice: Tracing the Lines to God's Grace

Releases March 3, 2026 & is available for pre-order now!

To journal is to trace the lines of grace and find, He is with me after all.

Sometimes we feel misplaced. Tender. Threadbare. And in those hollow spaces, we can wonder,
Where is God? For over a decade, Allison Byxbe experienced sorrow upon sorrow.
As grief buried her, Allison grew desperate for a way to reconnect to God’s presence.
Journaling through Scripture became her lifeline to God.

Journaling as a Spiritual Practice outlines Allison’s transformative journey from grief and depression to healing and wholeness. The Bible is filled with rich language and images that reveal our triune God—living water, bread, a door, a gentle whisper. Journaling through Scripture’s metaphors became her lifeline: a way to process grief, make sense of the impossible, and encounter—and then fully live in—the presence of God once again.

This book guides readers through the spiritual practice of journaling. Each chapter weaves Allison’s story with journaling examples and prompts, while teaching readers how to journal through Scripture. Readers will immediately begin applying what they learn.

Are you looking for a fresh way to hear and experience God?
Be mended by His mercy?
Find shelter beneath His wing?
Immerse yourself in Scripture through journaling, and you will find your way back into His presence.

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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

Tracing the Thread of God's Presence

When we write, we name the unnameable, find a home for misplaced parts of us, build outposts for our tender places, and stitch patches over threadbare pieces.

The thread of God's presence is the most important part of my story. God’s presence has been most evident during the most difficult circumstances of my life, bringing with it a hope and joy that only God's grace can explain.

As God always does, His faithfulness has carried me, and each step of the way, He has confirmed His calling on my life to write and speak of the hope we have in Him. My absolute joy and delight is finding the presence of God through the words we write.

Now, I’m an experienced college writing professor with a graduate degree in composition and rhetoric, which is just a fancy way to say “writing.” I’m also trained in Pennebaker’s Writing to Heal method and certified as a Journaling to the Self Instructor through Therapeutic Writing Institute.

Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of helping hundreds of women experience the life-giving power of putting pen to page through my online journaling community, classes, workshops, and retreats.