Into the Fire

That special chemistry between characters – that thing all authors pursue vehemently in love stories, romances, and scripts. Chemistry can be elusive onscreen or between pages. It takes a real understanding to achieve it by both actors and novelists. It either works or it doesn't. 

Harmon Rabb (David James Elliot) and Sarah MacKenzie (Catherine Bell) established their waylaid pursuit of each other for several seasons concluding with an engagement and plans based on the flip of a coin. It was an amazing chemistry and it definitely worked for faithful viewers with admirable writing to keep it brewing. 

For you, what characters in novels or onscreen have demonstrated that stunning chemistry which makes a book, a film, or a TV Series stand out and extra special? 

For me in a novel (besides my own), it was the incredible chemistry between Roman Velasco and Grace Moore in Francine Rivers' The Masterpiece.

Father, thank you for giving me characters that spark and for those authors and writers with the ability to capture chemistry in books or onscreen. We're all desperate for you whether we know it or not. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.