Welcome to my book, Walk the Land. I hope you will join me for each and every chapter, experiencing the land as I did, and walking beside me. As Missio Dei releases each new chapter, the idea is that you will enter into my writing space and share this experience with me as my book is being created. By joining in this process, you will be part of my inner circle, where we can gather as friends and nomads and I can get your feedback. Please leave me a comment below or feel free to email me directly at melissazpresser@gmail.com with your thoughts.

This book belongs to you. Because nothing we go through in life is ever for us. God uses these experiences to ensure that we know that we are not walking the land alone.

The idea for this book roll-out by chapter is for you to read and then provide feedback to me so I can make this more accessible to people so that God can touch as many lives as possible. I need your help to do that because you matter. And because as God draws us into an intimate relationship with Him and lets us in, so I want to do the same.

I hope like Mary that you will give your Fiat to this writing project. It is a gift from God and I couldn’t imagine publishing this book any other way.

Thank you for your generous support for Walk the Land, and for Missio Dei, my writing home.

Prologue

In 2021 I gave up my career as an attorney. I gave it up for God.