Kate Motaung is no stranger to grief. Shortly after moving from Michigan to South Africa, her mother was diagnosed with cancer, battling it for the next nine years. Kate took up journaling and eventually started a blog as “free therapy for processing [her] mom’s death.” She began submitting her writing to online publications, realizing it could encourage others. Her hope is that her books would help her readers “turn toward God, instead of dismissing Him and turning away.” She wants them to go to God with their pain and find true hope in a temporary world.
Kate is the author of our Letters to Grief gift book and 101 Prayers for Comfort prayer book. She has also written a memoir, A Place to Land: A Story of Longing and Belonging. She married her husband Kagiso, a pastor, in South Africa in 2004. They currently reside in West Michigan, where Kagiso works as a realtor. Kate is the owner of Refine Services, an editing service for writers, and host of the online writing community Five Minute Fridays.
Kate keeps busy with writing, editing and content management, both for a company and as a freelancer. She supports other Christian writers online through her platform athttps://katemotaung.com/.
I don’t like cilantro, Nutella, or hot coffee.
That would be my memoir, A Place to Land. There are two comments people make most often: "I couldn’t put it down" or "It made me cry."
Stepping Heavenward by Elizabeth Prentiss. Written in 1869, it’s convicting and challenges us to set our minds on things above, not on earthly things. This has given me a fresh perspective on my mom’s death. I would never want her to return to this broken world when she is now living in the glory of the Lord’s presence.
