Be sure to check out Mary DeMuth's Breakpoint article, "Should Christ-followers Read Fiction?" She gives a great round up of the multiple benefits, especially useful for anyone facing the age-old objections from well-meaning religious-types. http://www.breakpoint.org/listingarticle.asp?ID=11853
Let our minds be told all they need to know by the empathy of our hearts from the pictures you paint.
I get this question a lot. Especially at writer's conferences. At a writer’s conference, there’s always too much information. You need to purge it and sift through it afterwards. And some things need to be debunked, clarified, or given proper context. I hear things some of my colleagues say to new authors and I wonder what they’re smoking. Authors misunderstand some things, but some
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Meditation Psalm 139 “Even before there is a word on my tongue, God, You know it all.” Why don’t we know how beautiful we are to you? You know our very thoughts. Why don’t we know how beautiful we are? You listen for our every sound. Why don’t we know? “You have enclosed me behind and before, and laid your hand on
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I find the phrase, “Just because you can doesn’t mean you should” works for so many things. When a woman is wearing earrings too big for her neck to reasonably hold up. When I feel like giving my snarkier answer. When my 3-year-old decides she needs to stand up on the swings: Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
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