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I mean, it’s still the 25th of May somewhere.

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Christ Is Risen - Matt Maher

He is Risen Indeed!

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It’s Friday… But Sunday’s a Coming!

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The glorious 25th of May

I said I was tired but I have thoughts about the 25th now!

That slogan. Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably priced love, and a hard boiled egg. It's a great joke about how mob revolutions are a conglomerate of interests, each with their own motivations. It's also highly cynical. "tomorrow the sun will come up again, and I'm pretty sure that whatever happens we won't have found Freedom, and there won't be a whole lot of Justice, and I'm damn sure we won't have found Truth. But it's just possible that I might get a hard-boiled egg.” It operates on the premise that Truth & Justice are "big lies", that the universe is ultimately uncaring. Perhaps that's true on the Disc, although the narrative doesn't quite bear that out as the plot (which for novels is the universe) cares quite a bit about whether things are just. However, quite literally thank God, the real world isn't like that. Men are unjust and liars, it's true, (Jeremiah 5:1, John 8:44, Habakkuk 1:4), and unjust things and lies will be spread by the enemy until we feel there is no hope (Jeremiah 7:28, Jeremiah 9:5,Jeremiah 23:14, Isaiah 59, Hosea 10:13) but God is Truth & Justice (Deuteronomy 32:4, Isaiah 61:8, Jeremiah 4:2, John 1:4, John 14:6, Ephesians 5:9, Revelation 16:7) and will bring justice & freedom in the end (Isaiah 59-62, Zachariah 8, John 8:32, Romans 1:18, Romans 5:18, 2nd Peter 2:9).

Vimes mentored 3 people during his time in the past. 1. Nobby Nobs, who until the end of the series stole spoons from the police station & gave them to street urchins because John Keel once gave him a spoon and a little bit of dignity. 2. His younger self, who would be utterly demoralized by the events of the 25th, to the point that he would spend the next 20~ years barely one step above drunken homelessness. 3. Vetinari of all people, who Vimes never interacts with, but who witnesses Keel's death and is inspired to A. Stand up and fight alongside the revolution on the 25th of May. B. Eventually rise to the rank of patrician and help build structures in the city that will provide Truth, Justice, & Freedom.

He never got the egg.

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I mean, it’s still the 25th of May somewhere.

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Christ Is Risen - Matt Maher

He is Risen Indeed!

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It’s Friday… But Sunday’s a Coming!

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It’s Friday… But Sunday’s a Coming!

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Descriptions

It is most disconcerting, after a good page and a half of description, to realize that you have written from the wrong perspective entirely. Talking to the audience is all well and good, but this is supposed to be Mar's perspective and so much of the information I spent two hours on last night will have to be revealed as Mar discovers it. My convoluted bench maze needs to be described by someone who is wasting half an hour trying to reach a clerk so as to meet the one person on the continent who can give her access to the necessary records, and that's a very different thought process than my initial draft which focused on the architecture and cultural details, not the very personal difficulties which obscure the literal symbolism of justice behind a maze created to reduce the strain on the system. I also forgot to describe the front of the strangely small building, low to the ground like many others on the barren rock of the Isthmus, weather beaten but scrupulously clean and the line of people, some 50 deep, spilling out of the propped open door to the side. Well, at least all the details are present.

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So I just finished what might possibly be my last college course. With this accomplished I now turn my mind to all the things I turned down because I had to focus on school. One of those things is my long-suffering novel, 14 years old this summer and on it’s third re-write. This is going to turn into a writing blog, at least until after Easter.

Shall we begin?

It is easy to say that failure should be followed by consequence, and that both should impact the plot, but balancing too far with too harsh is difficult. How do I take a basically rule abiding girl and have her be punished with demotion, probation, and desk time, while having it be her own decision and fault, and not make her unlikable? It is simple enough for her to own up, and work to correct her mistake, but what gives her the idea to do the wrong in the first place?

My initial idea was to strike on her stubborn refusal to accept her limitations, man’s reach exceeds his grasp with the subsequent failure and knock on effects of such things, but viewed wrongly that can be perceived as recklessness and pride. It’s all fair and good for other characters to think she’s reckless and prideful for a time, but I don’t want the readers to have that impression. It’s such a rare thing to discuss in fiction too, the closest I can think of TNG’s ���The First Duty” and that was probably one of the worst of the series for me, plus it’s more about recklessness and lying than stubbornness.

Her character is established as not easily goaded, set in her ways, conscientious, and high-handed, it is hard to make such a character fail, a solid temperament and a professional thoroughness toward a situation tend to avoid most pitfalls. She’s resistant to change, maybe a superior tells her to do things differently than she’s accustomed to, but she sticks to the old, no, that runs up against the conscientiousness. Maybe she does it the new way, but just to be sure she also does the old way and is discovered in situ as it were. She’s not the type to defend herself to her superiors, so it’s taken as insubordination. It doesn’t get her demoted, but I can see desk time and probation, which ironically reinforces the conscientiousness. That might work.

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Christ Is Risen - Matt Maher

He is Risen Indeed!

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It’s Friday… But Sunday’s a Coming!

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Galatians 5 NKJV

Stand[a] fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.  2 Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.  3 And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is [b]a debtor to keep the whole law.  4 You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.  5 For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.  6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.

Love Fulfills the Law

7 You ran well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?  8 This persuasion does not come from Him who calls you.  9 A little leaven leavens the whole lump.  10 I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will have no other mind; but he who troubles you shall bear his judgment, whoever he is.

11 And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? Then the offense of the cross has ceased.  12 I could wish that those who trouble you would even [c]cut themselves off!

13 For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.  14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”  15 But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another!

Walking in the Spirit

16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.  17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.  18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: [d]adultery, [e]fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,  20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,  21 envy, [f]murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,  23 [g]gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.  24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.  25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.  26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

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There is no respect in this world for a little tape bound notebook that fits in your pocket and has enough pages to fit a whole years worth of rambling.

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Psalms, Hymns, & Spiritual Songs - June 29th

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Easter Sunday - No Grave

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It’s Friday… But Sunday’s a Coming!