Welcome to my site! I’m so thankful that you are here. I’m Rachel Devenish Ford, and I create gentle spaces for cultivating joy and curiosity, learning empathy, and enlarging our views of God’s creativity, justice, and love in the world.

I also love to teach! I’ve started to share what I know about writing and how it helps us navigate our world. I have two courses available:

Following the Thread is a self-paced course that you can take at any time. It’s 30 days of guided writing, designed to help you find what is asking for your attention right now.

Writing From the Heart is a 10-week virtual live course that has been described as life-changing and transformational. Registration is now open for classes starting on November 18th!

More about me: I love to make art, to write poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, to garden and teach people about creativity and literature. I have been working in community spaces for most of my life now, and currently I live with my family in Thailand, helping to facilitate a Christ-centered community space called Shekina Garden.

My new posts and newsletters are now at Substack. Sign up to get them in your inbox.

You can buy books directly from me in my bookshop.

Find my art here.

I’m on Instagram a lot. You can see my work here.

Much love to you!

Rachel