From my novel, Chapter 29, Seeing . . .  REPERCUSSIONS  I haven't written in this journal since we made peace so many years ago. You sent me thoughts and visions and burdens to pray for people I didn't know. You're aware of all the times I've felt so weird. How alone.      And now…

  Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent —      the Lord detests them both.   Proverbs 17:15 (NIV) 

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  Back in time . . . springtime on the University of Washington campus. A long time ago.    Father, lost then but you rescued me much later. I regret those lost days but you didn't waste them. Thank you is never enough. In the Name of Jesus, Amen. 

                                         Beautiful autumn.  Opening lines I've wanted to write for a future novel:       I was born on the first day of fall.      In retrospect I suppose it predisposed me to moments of…

            A fabulous band with severe dysfunction that still managed to put out hit after hit. This is just one of them.    Father, only you know hearts. Only you save. We're all desperate for you – whether we know it or not. Thank you, Jesus, for rescuing me. In…

          Authors take the time – if they have it – to ponder their careers. Are they satisfied with their books? Have they done everything they can think of to do to engineer success? Have they paid others to do what they cannot, i.e. promote, sell, market? Do they continue in…

       Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.    1 Corinthians 15:58 (NIV)

                                  Let's do some characters and authors: Do you know who these thriller characters are: Mitch Rapp, Scot Harvath, John Milton, Jon Reznick, Cole "Toxic" Russell?  Do you know who these tough ladies are: Raleigh Harmon, Rachel Hatch, "Ham",…

                              So many novels from the Christian Fiction romance genre don't often approach the story from a man's point of view (POV). The stories do give the hero a voice, his thoughts or reflections – especially about the heroine – but…