The God Who Sees

Last time, I wrote about how we have a choice–to view things with faith, love, and hope, or not to. They really are a game-changer. But this is the flip-side of that. Sometimes things are just hard–often, actually, since we are broken people living in a...

The Thin Line between Surviving & Thriving

A few months ago, in the study on 1 & 2 Thessalonians I’d been doing, I came across this idea that’s been percolating since then. Beth Moore argued that the only difference between surviving and thriving is faith, hope, and love (Children of the...

Life Learning Labs

Last week I talked about how fun it is to see characters get stretched beyond what I’ve seen. It’s one of the benefits of the realm of fan fiction–there’s a foundation that comes from working with familiar characters that lets you stretch them...

Stretching and Being Stretched

I recently read two very different Star Trek AOS fan fics. In the first fic, the author did some really amazing things with Spock’s childhood and how his father’s disapproval and his peers’ bullying formed him into someone with serious issues in how...

The Art of Not Knowing–Flexible Plans

Earlier this week I was so focused on finishing my plan that I was like a bulldozer. I ignored all the little detours that were necessary and it ended up taking way longer than it should have–that whole “a stitch in time saves nine” thing? Yeah, I...
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