History, Real Life and Faith
Like many, I grew up on sanitized versions of prisoner of war (POW) camps made famous by movies such as Stalag 17 or The Great Escape, not to mention the TV program Hogan’s Heroes. But some of the heroes of my childhood included the Vietnam POWs. I wore a metal bracelet with Lt. Thomas Sima’s name on it for several…
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Why do he choose to believe? The man sat in the dark pit, his long hair tangled and hanging about his shoulders. He ate simple food: insects and water. Taunting prison guards probably let his friends visit; he passed a message to the outside world. He thought he knew his purpose. The man believed God called him to say the…
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Suzie, our beloved Gordon Setter, died. These are memories of a good dog. We got Suzie as a rescue dog when she was almost a year old. Friends from church ran Springset Kennels just down the road from us at the time. She came shivering with fear and the first night my husband rocked the 45 pound dog on his…
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The heart of any novel is the research, which is why so many cling to the old adage “write what you know.” It’s smart, of course, to write out of your own experience–you can draw on your reactions, you know what things sound, taste and smell like, you have an innate understanding of the underlying elements of your tale. But…
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“We’ll catch up in eternity,” I think some times when we I see a friend in a crowded arena. “Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world,” Anne Shirley mused in Anne of Green Gables I recently wrote a letter to an acquaintance: It’s always…
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“We’ll catch up in eternity,” I think some times when we I see a friend in a crowded arena. “Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world,” Anne Shirley mused in Anne of Green Gables I recently wrote a letter to an acquaintance: It’s always…
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