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Life, My Writing

It’s Saturday

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Sorry about my long absence around here, dear friends.  We just got back to school from Christmas break this week, so I have been a bit busy!  Most of my spare hours have been spent trying to memorize songs on the piano or desperately working on The Sacrifice.

It’s been going. . . slow.  I don’t really like the second half that much, but the first half is turning out lovely, if I do say so myself.  And there happen to be a hundred little details that I can’t quite decide if I like, or if they belong in the City or the Valley (or my surrounding mountain-range) at all.  Also, I’m just sure that there’s a perfect ending for it waiting just around some corner for me to find and write, but I have yet to figure out which corner that happens to be.  If you run into any happy endings, they may belong to me, so if you wouldn’t mind letting me know. . .

Anyway, I’m working on it, and doing my best to get it out “in front of your eyeballs” as soon as possible! 🙂

It’s good to be back, and I’ll try to come around again before another whole week!

Happy Saturday!

Faith, Life

Blessings and Stories: Eternity

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It’s been a while since I did one of these posts, so I decided to today when I couldn’t think of anything to post.  And I found quite a few things I had forgotten about writing while I was flipping through my “Blessings and Stories” notebook, so there may be some more posts like this in the future!

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For a long time I have believed that I will go to heaven when I die.

(Once when I was little, I decided that heaven didn’t exist, and you just sat in the dark after you died.  I’m not sure if I would have come to that conclusion if I had really thought about it, but I didn’t think too hard.)

Anyway, for a long time I have believed that I will go to heaven when I die.

But just recently it really occurred to me: heaven is something that is real, and it’s going to happen to me.

I once had a friend ask me, “Do you get dizzy when you think about forever?”  I had never gotten dizzy when I thought about forever, and I thought it was kind-of a weird question.

But at that moment, as I began to think about what heaven really meant–of seeing Christ’s face, and of spending eternity with the One who died for me–I was dizzy!

I think of taking my last breath, and knowing that everlasting joy, peace, hope, and comfort lay ahead!

And I think of Jesus, hanging on the cross, taking His last breath, and knowing that IT WAS FINISHED.  And I thought that I had had a sense of accomplishment before!

Life
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The most wonderful of mothers had a birthday yesterday!

I never have time to post on birthdays, because we’re so busy! *sigh*  Ah well, here we are now:

Happy birthday, Mama!  You’re the best!  Thank you for being the very sweetest mama ever, and always supporting all my crazy ideas!  I love you!

Life

Birthdays

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The very sweetest of little sisters turned 10 yesterday (double digits! *gasp*), and a very awesome little brother turned 4 on the 31st.  (Yes, we have back-to-back birthdays–not to mention Mom’s is tomorrow!)

I am SO blessed to have those two as my siblings!  Four years ago Michael stole my monopoly on being the youngest child, and he’s quite welcome to it!

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I love being a big sister!

Life, Literature

Snow!!!

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I’m crazy.

I’ve often thought so, but This?

This proves it.

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It’s been snowing all morning–big, fluffy, beautiful flakes–and I went out for a few minutes earlier and did archery in it.

I can now say I have done target practice in the rain and the snow.  Granted, I didn’t stay out very long this morning due to cold and frost-covered arrows that make your fingers feel like they’re about to fall off; but I’ve done it.

There has to be a story where someone shoots arrows in the snow, right?  Or do I have to write that one too?

Anyway, enjoy the snow, if you have it, and if not, then enjoy whatever weather you’re having!

Happy Monday!

Life, Literature, My Writing

A Gift

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It’s Christmas!!!  The greatest gift in the world was given today!

And that’s why Christmas is a time of giving.

So I thought I would post these now, as a present to all my faithful readers.  These are three pictures I drew of things in The Sacrifice, and I thought I would post them to tide you guys over.

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Unfortunately, I wasn’t considering the Christmastime busyness when I planned our fall/winter schedule, and I haven’t been getting in as much writing and editing as I had hoped.  And editing is turning out to be a bigger job than I had expected, and I’m considering leaving out a character because he doesn’t play a very major role.  So. . . The Sacrifice might be a little later than I thought.  I’m very sorry, and I’ll get it up here as soon as I can.

Thank you all for your patience and your enthusiasm!

★ ★ ★  Merry Christmas!!! ★ ★ ★

Faith, Life

If Christmas Isn’t So Merry Anymore

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The older you get, the less exciting Christmas becomes.  (My sincere apologies to all my readers who are younger than I am.)

You begin realize that it’s not necessarily the best time of year, it can be kind-of stressful, and there’s always that inevitable after-Christmas-let-down.

So when you get old enough to realize you shouldn’t center the season around presents and you’ll probably just be disappointed if you do, you were never crazy about the food or decorations, and you like the music but you can’t live off jingle bells–what next?

Well, you turn to what should have been our focus in the first place–Christ.

You don’t go to a birthday party just because you want the cake (I least I hope you don’t!), you go because you want to encourage whoever is having the birthday.

The last song on Rend Collective’s Christmas album is called “For All That You Have Done”.  Jesus has a birthday because He was born to be tortured to death.  He has done everything for us.  Given us everything.

The least we can do is celebrate His birthday for Him.