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How many of us have chosen which temptations our flesh is drawn toward? We’re all born sinners. What any of us chose is to walk in the sin and to embrace that tendency as an important-to-us piece of our identity. That is a difficult stronghold to break, whatever the sin is, and it can make it not feel at all like a choice. Disrespecting someone’s feelings is not an effective way to persuade them. Do we feel the need to ram it down every sinner’s throat that their feelings are wrong and they choose to give in to sin, even if they didn’t choose toRead More →

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Do I personally wear long underwear? Why, yes, I do, but not as an outer garment. If another lady feels comfortable prancing around in pants that look like underwear to me, though, I figure I should leave that between her and God. It took God’s conviction to change my heart before I changed my mind and behavior on wardrobe issues, after all.   Let’s modestly stop the backbiting and the attacking one another for differing personal convictions and live at peace. Twitter version:[tweetthis]Let’s modestly not attack one another for differing convictions on women’s wear.[/tweetthis]

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Here is a sneak peak at the sci-fi story I’m writing. It’s more in the tradition of Ender’s Game than true Middle Grade. I am making efforts to be kid-friendly, but it’s not a safe world where adults can always protect kids from having to face difficult adult issues and may only be okay for kids whose worlds aren’t that way, either. To see links to other participants samples, check out Ruth Snyder’s blog. Life After Mars Chapter One Flashes of a claustrophobic white tube haunted the Martian pioneer girl. Gloria was playing Quarter Liter in her favorite cartoon. Virtual reality was getting so good,Read More →

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I have kindly accepted an invitation from Ruth L Snyder to join her 2015 Writer’s Blog Hop. This will be going on about eight weeks, with four posts total, one every other week; on Mondays for me. Check out her website at the previous link to see her original post and go visit other participating blogs. The topics this year are: Week 1: Writing Goals – share what you’re planning to work on this year (January 10, 2015) Week 2: Writing sample – share a sample from your current Work in Progress (January 24, 2015) Week 3: Favourite character – this can be a realRead More →

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“I hope this doesn’t offend you, but . . .” Whenever I hear phrases like this, I can almost guarantee you what will follow will be unkind, hurtful, and rude to the point of offensive. It’s pretty much an apology in advance meant, we hope, to excuse us for daring to speak our minds. Sharing an honest opinion isn’t wrong in and of itself, but apologizing for it while taking a tone and posture that dares the person to get offended is problematic to say the least. So is speaking without any regard for the other person and how they might be benefited or hurt,Read More →