Patsy Clairmont is the author of many best-selling books, including God Uses Cracked Pots, Normal Is Just a Setting on Your Dryer, and Sportin’ a ‘Tude. [...]

DivineDetour.com is approaching its fifth year of sharing others’ detours, so I think it’s about time I share a little secret. It’s something I’ve known [...]

You thought you knew where you were heading…and then things changed. A chance meeting with a stranger. A nudge from God. Or an unexpected opportunity. Maybe you were on the path to success, but you came upon a roadblock. Now you’re heading in a different direction and your dream seems far away.

You may be closer than you think. God sometimes uses a detour in our lives to take us to our goal.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by….
And that has made all the difference.
~ Robert Frost

Nancy Mehl has authored more than twenty books and is currently at work on her next series. She’s just released Deadly Echoes (Bethany House Publishers, February 2015), and [...]

Sally John is the best-selling author of twenty novels, including the Safe Harbor series, coauthored with Gary Smalley; The Other Way Home series; The Beach House [...]

Terri Blackstock has had more than twenty-five years of success as a novelist. She spent the first twelve years of her life traveling with her Air Force [...]

Chrys Howard, the mother of Duck Dynasty's Korie Robertson, holds a degree in elementary education and spent ten years teaching children with learning differences. The [...]

Rebecca Deel is a preacher's kid with a black belt in karate. She has completed her Doctor of Arts degree in Economics and teaches business classes [...]

Liz Tolsma has spent time teaching second grade, writing advertising for a real estate company, and working as a church secretary. But she always dreamed [...]