Grace Thoughts

  Welcome, Students, to the exciting world of creative writing! In the beginning, God not only created our planet and everything in it, but He also used words to do so. God has given us the gift of words to fill our lives with truth, wisdom, and beauty. As we use this gift in creative writing, we demonstrate how we are created in God's image as our ideas and imaginations encourage, entertain, and inspire other image bearers like ourselves. Creative writing gives us a glimpse of God's heart as the master storyteller, character creator, and world designer, and so much more. Every day, we can learn and grow in our writing abilities. Our imaginations are wondrous gifts from God to help us in this. However, they need fuel, or they will be like a car stuck in a rut. Research is a tool that fuels our imaginations and inspires us to write. I imagine you were not expecting me to share with you about the importance of research in creative writing. Maybe a post on the power of the imagina...

  (A Lament for the United States of America)   The velvet sky cascades as my gown so lovely Stitched with glittering diamonds above My birth reaches past the rolling waters I take my joy in God’s perfect love.   I watched as the oceans foamed in beauty, When God spoke the word and so it became. My joy spilled over with the waves lapping As the first man and woman received their names.   I wept in sorrow when the world turned away From God on high who formed them to live In his presence with joy from day to day. Instead, they ate what the Tempter did give.   The lies that spewed from his lips deceiving The woman drank, deeply within Then Adam followed her unto the slaughter As they both turned from God to their sin.   Now you, dear Babe, are rocked in my arms here Listen to this story I shall tell Your mother once held you safe inside her, But her heart drank from that same ruined well.   Poisoned long ye...