COFFEE BREAK: Meet Cynthia Ruchti

This week, we'll be spending some time with CYNTHIA RUCHTI, the newest member of our devo family at Summerside Press.

I first met Cynthia through my good friend and former Abingdon Press editor, Barbara Scott. Cynthia and Barb had forged a close relationship through working together on Cyn’s debut novel, They Almost Always Come Home.

NOTE: If you haven’t read it, I highly suggest that you do. It’s heart-changing.

After several meetings through Abingdon functions, the Holy Spirit gently brushed other people and situations out of the path so that Cynthia and I were sort of supernaturally drawn together. It’s become a friendship (and prayer partnership) that I consider one of the most valued and blessed connections of my adult life. When I wanted to draw a new author into the devo family at Summerside Press, Cynthia was a no-brainer.

So meet one of my favorite women on the planet. Meet Cynthia Ruchti.

Cynthia Ruchti served as president of American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) for the 2009-2010 term and now serves as ACFW’s Professional Relations Liaison. The radio broadcast Cynthia writes and produces – ”The Heartbeat of the Home” – is celebrating its 31st year of ministry. The scripted radio drama/devotional broadcast airs on 14 radio stations and two cable/digital television stations. Cynthia is the editor of the ministry’s magazine, Backyard Friends.

About His Grace is Sufficient...Decaf is Not, in Cynthia's own words ...

What do you hope readers will take away from the new devotional?

I think it’s a beautiful thing that every reader will gain something different from this book. Some will devour it in one sitting…Some will take a chapter a day and chew on that thought for a while… Other readers will return to the book, to certain devotionals that particularly resonated with their situation…My prayer is that all will close the book with a sense that there’s so much more to grace than we realize at first glance, and that it rises like a good yeast dough when we apply to others the kind of grace God offers us.

Tell our readers about each of the other three authors?

You, Sandie Bricker, have an exceptional gift of digging the funny out of the junk drawer of life and using it to communicate potent eternal truths!

Loree Lough is a faithful God-observer who uses story to show that her own faith walk is a path worth following.

And Trish Perry is a woman of grace who knows how to lift someone’s spirit with a few well-chosen words, and who is dedicated to using her life to bless others in His name.

Is there anything else you'd like to tell our readers?

Just that God’s grace is an inexhaustible subject. Detectives use a fine brush to deposit a layer of powder on a glass or knife handle or computer keyboard or lamp base so they can see the fingerprints that will help solve the case. We authors use words and story to dust for fingerprints, too -- the evidence of God’s grace. That’s what this book is about. I invite readers to pull up a chair. Let’s see if we can’t make a few discoveries about where grace has been and what it’s been doing. We’ll find it—the grace worth embracing.

Cynthia’s Web site