SCOTT TWP. — Ordinary lives can become extraordinary. That’s the premise of a new nonfiction book released on Dec. 10 on Amazon entitled “The Walk on Layton: 52 Modern Parables for Your Journey,” written by local resident Jo Ann Jones Walczak.
Ordinary defines most of our lives, but who hasn’t wanted to step out of the ordinary and make every day a new and exciting adventure? Many of us would like to make “extraordinary” a life goal.
Walczak maintains that a transition from ordinary to extraordinary can happen when our days are wrapped in an awareness of God’s presence with us on life’s journey.
A lifelong resident of Layton Road in Scott Township, the author chronicles 52 short stories of family, travel, history, trauma and culture as she walks life in Northeast Pennsylvania. Each story reveals the metaphorical value of these events as we learn to give walking space to God, our forever-on-the-road-together companion.
These real-life inspirational stories will take readers to mundane places — like a garden, a family dinner and a camping trip — and into amazing places like Tibet and a communist Chinese high school. Thankfulness, perspective and service become catalysts to transformation.
Walczak taught for over 30 years in the Lakeland School District. She also taught high school in China and served in an orphanage there for many years.
