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Monthly Archives: September 2015
The Wishing Map 95
Note: To read The Wishing Map from the beginning, click here. The Wishing Map Chapter Twenty: Tea for One Previously: Gina managed (by posing as the mysterious Rhema) to halt the civil war launched by her brother Zack. ⇔ ⇔ … Continue reading
Posted in Story Power, The Wishing Map
Tagged fantasy, forgiveness, guilt, remorse, self, sorrow, suffering, Zack
4 Comments
Life with a Purpose
Connecting With God, Part 8 (To read Part 1, click here) Purpose. No amount of Freudian psychoanalysis can explain away the need for it. Unless we succeed in drowning it out, all of our lives we will hear that still, small voice calling us … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, For Pastors and Teachers, Religion/Faith
Tagged Bible, Connecting With God, faith, hope, life, prayer, purpose
22 Comments
The Wishing Map 94
Note: To read The Wishing Map from the beginning, click here. The Wishing Map Chapter Nineteen: The Naim Games (Continued) Previously: Zack was stunned to discover that the terrifying apparition who’d halted the naims’ civil war was his sister Gina. … Continue reading
Posted in Story Power, The Wishing Map
Tagged anger, blame, death, fear, forgiveness, guilt, suffering, war
8 Comments
The Wishing Map 93
Note: To read The Wishing Map from the beginning, click here. The Wishing Map Chapter Nineteen: The Naim Games (Continued) Previously: Zack and the naim (gnome) child Bud were pierced by lances, but for some reason didn’t die. And then … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Story Power, The Wishing Map
Tagged conflict, fairy, fantasy, queen, resolution, Rhema, war
4 Comments
The Wishing Map 92
Note: To read The Wishing Map from the beginning, click here. The Wishing Map Chapter Nineteen: The Naim Games (Continued) Previously: The naim (gnome) child Bud was pierced by an arrow as Zack struggled to halt the war he’d unintentionally … Continue reading
Posted in Story Power, The Wishing Map
Tagged anger, arrow, conflict, death, fantasy, injury, misunderstanding, war
4 Comments
Call Me Mr. Sunshine
So, I’ve been nominated for a Sunshine Blogger Award by Kat Frost, the delightfully un-frosty blogger at More Than I’ve Been. My challenge: to answer a set of Questions and choose other worthy Nominees. Here goes: My Questions What is your dream … Continue reading
The Wishing Map 91
Note: To read The Wishing Map from the beginning, click here. The Wishing Map Chapter Nineteen: The Naim Games (Continued) Previously: By pushing the childlike naims beyond what they could comprehend, Zack unintentionally sparked armed conflict! ⇔ ⇔ ⇔ Cries … Continue reading
Posted in Story Power, The Wishing Map
Tagged anger, conflict, fantasy, gnomes, misunderstanding, naims, war, weapons
3 Comments
Remember 9/11, Live 9/12
September, 2001, was a tumultuous month for my family. We’d sold our Orange County condo, the only home our children had ever known, and on Labor Day moved into a rented townhouse in Burbank, California. The next day I would … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, For Pastors and Teachers, Memoir
Tagged 2001, 9/11, Deuteronomy 30:19, Islamic State, New York, September 11, terrorists
41 Comments
The Wishing Map 89
Note: To read The Wishing Map from the beginning, click here. The Wishing Map Chapter Nineteen: The Naim Games (Continued) Previously: Zack began pressing the culturally non-competitive naims to choose a “winner” in his storytelling contest. ⇔ ⇔ ⇔ “Who … Continue reading
Posted in Story Power, The Wishing Map
Tagged competition, conflict, contest, fantasy, finalist, storysmith, storytelling, winner
7 Comments