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Fallen

11  My son, do not despise the LORD’s discipline,     and do not resent his rebuke,  12  because the LORD disciplines those he loves,     as a father the son he delights in Proverbs 3: 11-12 There's a large, plastic play castle on the smaller of the two playgrounds of the daycare where I work.  One wall of the castle that connects to the wall where a small orange slide comes down has been unattached for some time. The reason being, the kids constantly open this side to make an extra door to run through while chasing and hiding from each other. The thick plastic of the play castle is stable enough that it still stands on the ground, but the children make it a habit to climb up onto the side of the wall and sit on the broken side and rock it back and forth. Images of small three year old tumbling head first into the middle of the castle flood my mind as I watch this, but no matter how many times I warn them to get down or t...

Writer's Block

I just spent the weekend in Fishers, IN at the Wesleyan World Headquarters for the 10th Annual Indy Christian Writer's Conference. During the summers I'm much more prone to blogging than I am during the school year. The most obvious reasoning this being time and availability of brain cells. I sometimes forget when I'm not writing that I'm CALLED to writing. I often sit at these Writer's Conferences amidst many published authors and creative thinkers and to be quite honest, I feel like I'm not cut out to be a writer. I grew up writing. My mom is a teacher so I learned to read when I was very young and my first novel of choice was Nancy Drew. I read her, pretended to be her, and wrote mock stories in the Nancy Drew sleuth fashion. This led to writing creative sci-fi stories (of course modeled after Star Wars and Star Trek) and eventually I took a stab at historical fiction. I finished my first novel about a family in the slave south and their escape to freedom w...