• Faith Talk - Writing Life

    Part 2 of “The Princess, The Dragon, and The King: An Allegory”

    March 3, 2025 - By 

    I am back again this week with the second part of the story I began last week. This installment will wrap up the allegory section from my talk, but next week I will share the meaning of the allegory and my personal story. So stay tuned for the rest of the series over the coming weeks! If you missed Part 1, you can read that here. Driven to the deep dungeons of the castle, in almost complete darkness, the princess found light in a tiny corner of her heart that the monster had not managed to poison. In desperation she…

  • Faith Talk - Uncategorized - Writing Life

    Original: Five Minute Fridays

    February 28, 2025 - By 

    This post is part of Five Minute Fridays Link-Ups. Here is my post for this week’s prompt: Original Time begins now…. According to the Cambridge Dictionary the word “original” means: “existing since the beginning, or being the earliest form of something; “. When I read that definition, I immediately thought of John 1:1-3. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was with God in the beginning.  Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. John 1:1-3 (NIV) God is the Original Originator, the Creator of the created. He is the first,…

  • Faith Talk - Writing Life

    “The Princess, the Dragon, and the King: An Allegory,” Part 1

    February 26, 2025 - By 

    This week, I am beginning a series of posts that are taken from a conference talk I gave at my church in the fall of 2023. I have been wanting to share this story here ever since giving it as a talk, but at the time I didn’t even have access to the blog because of some backend issues with my server! Now that I am back and writing again, I decided it was finally time to share this with all of you here. Since this is a rather lengthy story, though, I am breaking it up into several installments.…

  • Faith Talk - Writing Life

    But God: Five Minute Friday Link-up

    February 14, 2025 - By 

    This post is part of Five Minute Fridays Link-Ups. Here is my post for this week’s prompt:  Time begins now…. When I saw today’s prompt was “But”, at first I thought of all the excuses I make. I know I should do something, but…. Then I was reminded of the fact that in our weakness God is strong. So instead I decided to write on the But God statements that encourage me and keep my going when I am not strong enough in myself. (Which is all of the time!) I am often inconsistent and unfaithful, but God is always faithful…

  • Faith Talk - Uncategorized - Writing Life

    Noise: Five Minute Friday Link-Up

    February 7, 2025 - By 

    This post is part of Five Minute Fridays Link-Ups. Here is my post for this week’s prompt: Time begins now…. Today I ran errands alone and didn’t turn on the car radio. I didn’t listen to a podcast or an audio book. I didn’t even have Siri give me directions except on a very short jaunt to the UPS store that I hadn’t been to before. Maybe it seems like a small thing, to just sit in silence, but it seems like these days we always have some kind of background noise going. My children listen to audio books while…