![]() I had a slight operation that I’d been putting off and combined that with my soul journey. Medical vacations had come to my attention in recent years, so I booked my excursion. During this time she persuaded me that only by seeking and acting on my deeply held beliefs would I ever experience the sum total of whom I was meant to be. My pastor encouraged me to take a vacation to truly find and become myself. Being surrounded by such loving people showed me the way to mend. I had a huge hole in my heart, a desire to be other than what I was. To know that I wasn’t alone and to know that my new friends would bear my cross with me made me happier than I’d been since childhood.įor many years I’d experienced a deep sense of need that nothing could fulfill. Through pastoral sermons and small group encounters I learned that others had also suffered. I had started coming to church because of the hurt and disappointment in my life. I almost cried with the support I received from my church family. What happened to the exaltation of God rather than self – even in many churches today? Without further ado, here for your head-shaking reading of the day is the story I wrote in 2015 about this subject contained in Zapped!: God has been good to me in enabling me to be on the cutting edge of many aspects of our coming dystopia – otherwise known as the Tribulation. Yes, I was somewhat prescient about this, as with a number of other issues that I went to the extreme in writing about in this very short form. However, given my introduction above, would it surprise you that this was something I wrote about as part of the Faithwriters Challenge? This is a highly disturbing issue and trend that has just now made these headline waves. The reason I bring this up is because of a news item that the Fox News website led with on Aptitled: From transgendered to ‘transabled’: Now people are ‘choosing’ to identify as handicapped FYI – It is available on Amazon along with my novels and non-fiction Bible-directed works: One of the collections of my works is titled Zapped! Omnibus since it contains multiple volumes of my stories in the way I put them together. In other words, with something outlandish that caught my attention, what if this item became normal or greatly approved in our culture? Conversely, what if this issue became part of a dystopian nightmare? What might these things look like?Īll those stories I wrote are still posted on the Faithwriters website, but my wife suggested I collect them into books comprised of my various efforts. Typically with outrageous items as ideas for a story, I took them to an extreme. The approach I took in many of the stories was to glean an idea from something I knew or had seen in the news. Over the course of a couple years I wrote more than 100 such stories and worked my way into a Master designation based on the Faithwriters’ evaluation criteria. The idea was that each week a new topic would be given, and we were to write a story of no more than 750 words revolving around that topic. When I began writing again in 2013 following a hiatus of maybe 13 years, I started out by accepting the writing challenge of a Christian website called Faithwriters.
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