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Hey friend, I know sometimes you get sad, and it feels like there isn’t really a reason. I get that way, too. I just wanted you to know that you aren’t alone in that. It may feel so silly, because you have nothing to be sad about. But I’ve learned something that may help you
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Where there is love, there will also be the warmth of the summer Hugging all the aches that rest in your bones Papering you with delicate designs of affection Until you glisten like the rain drops on the petals of a red rose. Where there is love, there will also be the still silence of
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I will not glance behind To the places I have been Where harm was met with mournful prayers That pleaded for an end. I will not glance behind The events there are at rest I will leave the past where it was laid Not clutched against my breast. I will not glance behind That way
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My summer plan is to publish a collection of novellas set in the world of my novels, The World Between and The Chaos Within. The three stories span a great length of time. One takes place before the events of either book, one takes place concurrently to both books, and one takes place after the
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I started this writing blog as a way to make myself write more often. I have found it to be cathartic, healing, energizing and inspiring to sit down at the computer, and this “what will I write next for the blog?” As I reflect on a year of intentional writing, here are a few things
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One of my big ideas involves a church that has always been run and headed by women. If the women at the empty tomb had been the ones to go into all the world, or if the spreading of the news had been done at their direction, how would the church have evolved differently? If
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Nearly every time I read through the instructions in the Hebrew Bible, I wonder what the text might look like if it was brought forward into the modern world. I don’t think we would be bringing animals and fruits from our fields and gardens. These are not the tokens that we find meaningful now. Below
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Last year, I wrote a story, The White Stone, which was inspired by a verse from Revelation chapter 2. I revisited Revelation chapters 2 and 3 recently, which catalog seven letters to seven churches in Asia minor. I plan to write six other stories using pieces from the six other letters of this section to
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I have lots of ideas coming into the New Year. Some of them have made it onto the page. Others are still swimming around in my head. Over the next few weeks I’ll be sharing the bits and pieces that have been written. This week: the intro to a prequel for The World Between.
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I knew I would have girls. I can’t explain how I knew, other than to say I envisioned them, and brought them to life. As if they manifested out of the dreams I had of them before they were born. When they were growing inside me, I knew who they were. I imagined how they
The Quick and the Dead
Short stories. Creative experiments. Ideas that might not pan out.
The Quick and the Dead 