A
Step in the Write
Direction
March
9, 2015
Update:
Luckily I had most of this blog completed early or else I wouldn’t have been
able to send it. My beautiful, loving, caring husband of 54 years passed away
Saturday night at 5:37 p.m. I don’t know how long it takes before it becomes
real. My son-in-law just called and on their way home they saw a car with the
license plate Revelation 21:4. He looked it up and called me. It reads: “He will
wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or
crying or pain…”
Thought
for the Day:
There's a story about the artist Rodin who one day saw a huge, carved crucifix
beside a road. He purchased the cross and arranged to have it carted back to his
house. But, unfortunately, it was too big for the building. So he knocked out
the walls, raised the roof, and rebuilt his home around the cross (Best Sermons 3, Harper & Row, 1990,
p. 115, found on sermons@clergy.net).
Song
for the Day:
He
giveth more grace as the burdens grow greater.
He addeth more strength as the labors increase.
He addeth more strength as the labors increase.
To
added affliction He addeth His mercy;
To
multiplied trials, His multiplied peace.
When we have exhausted our store of endurance,
When our strength has failed ere the day is half done.
When we reach the end of our hoarded resources,
Our Father's full giving is only begun.
When we have exhausted our store of endurance,
When our strength has failed ere the day is half done.
When we reach the end of our hoarded resources,
Our Father's full giving is only begun.
Annie Johnson Flint, “He Giveth More
Grace”
Laugh
for the Day:
Once you lick the frosting off a cupcake it becomes a muffin and muffins are healthful (The Gospel Greats newsletter, 3/3/15)..
Once you lick the frosting off a cupcake it becomes a muffin and muffins are healthful (The Gospel Greats newsletter, 3/3/15)..
Writer’s
Tips:
More “Show, Don’t Tell”
Use
Descriptive Words
Max Lucado in No
Wonder They Call Him the Saviour (Portland:
Multnomah Press, 1986, pp. 105-06) could have just said, “Tears are necessary to
show our emotion.” But instead he said:
“Tears.
“Those tiny drops of humanity. Those round, wet balls
of fluid that tumble from our eyes, creep down our cheeks, and splash on the
floor of our hearts. They were there that day. They are always present at such
times. They should be; that’s their job. They are miniature messengers; on call
twenty-four hours a day to substitute for crippled words. They drip, drop, and
pour from the corner of our souls, carrying with them the deepest emotions we
possess. They tumble down our faces with announcements that range from the most
blissful joy to darkest despair.
“The principle is simple; when words are most empty,
tears are most apt.”
More Samples of Descriptive Writing
The Heart Remembers, June Masters Bacher, Harvest House.
* "She had made a soft
landing into the real world of today."
* "My mouth's so dry I
could spit enough cotton to knit a sweater."
* "It's a ten-hanky
crying jag."
* "One eye that, like
his tie, always drifted to the left."
* "We're all
different.
Did you think God made a paper-doll pattern
from Adam and Eve?"
Have a good week spreading
the
gospel
through the printed page.
Donna
Clark Goodrich
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I read of your loss on The Writer's View. I am truly sorry for your loss.
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