The power of fiction, the beauty of words, and the God who made us to wield them for His glory.

Word Painting – The Weight of Sorrow

Sorrow can be a crippling emotion.  One of the things I love about good fiction is that it allows us to experience and learn how to process heavy emotions from a ‘safe’ vantage point – one that involves us emotionally without involving us physically.  It can also be just plain cathartic. The Feathered Bone is all that and more.  I will have a full review up in the next day or so, but I wanted to share one description that elicited a physical response when I read it. With each step my chest caves deeper against my heart. What a

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8 February 2016

Thoughts to Live By

Your thought for today comes from Captain Meda from Thomas Locke’s soon-to-be-released Merchant of Alyss: “There are few actions that bring greater satisfaction than knowing the right choice and taking it.” http://tlocke.com/legends-of-the-realm/merchant-of-alyss/ Free sample chapter from MERCHANT OF ALYSS by Thomas Locke Unfortunately for all of us, making the right choice isn’t always as easy as knowing the right choice. Praise God there is One who is strong in our weakness!

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16 December 2015

Thought for the day…

“A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one’s vocabulary and the greater one’s awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one’s thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing.” Henry Hazlitt – Thinking as a Science

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18 November 2015