Women of Faith Winner: Call of a Coward

By Marcia Moston –

The problem with promising God you’ll follow Him wherever He leads is that you just might have to go.

“The road exceeded my worst expectations. Cliffs rose straight up on one side and plunged down on the other. It was one thing to ride a scary road with a husband you could yell at; it was another to ride with a stranger who said with the same equanimity, “There’s a good view from the overlook up ahead,” and “The brakes are bad, that’s why I have to pump them.”

Hernando downshifted, pumped the screeching brakes and entered the river. I couldn’t decide whether to look ahead at the slippery rocks on the steep bank, look behind from where we had safely come, or simply bury my head in my lap. If I needed a sign from God, this was it. I decided there was no way I could ride this road to go shopping, to get our mail, to find a doctor, to do anything─ ever. When, and if, I met up with Bob in the village, I was going to have to tell him so.”

On a journey that leads from the highlands of Guatemala to a small Vermont village, Marcia follows God’s call for her husband even though it seems to conflict with her own dreams, requires credentials she lacks, comfort she fears to give up, and courage she doesn’t feel she has.

Written with humor and insight, Call of a Coward is a candid account of a modern-day seeker and a very real God who makes cowards courageous, ordinary lives purposeful and dried-up dreams fruitful.

What others are saying

“Obedience is not for the faint of heart. In Call of a Coward, Marcia Moston brings us a witty, transparent account of her mental struggles, culture shock, and spiritual challenges of life in the mission field. Call of a Coward is a personal portrait of how a loving God takes the reluctant and transforms them into the reliable.”- Keiki Hendrix, The Vessel Project

Marcia Moston, winner of the 2010 Women of Faith Writing Contest and Honorable Mention recipient of the 78th Annual Writer’s Digest Competition has been a columnist for the Greenville Journal and contributor to several magazines. Her book, Call of a Coward is to be released in the spring/summer of 2012 by Thomas Nelson. Marcia and her husband live in South Carolina. Visit her at http://www.marciamoston.com/.