New Guest Post at Greener Trees

I've been taking part in a great book discussion group this summer. We're reading Jeffrey Overstreet's book, Through a Screen Darkly.

This week I wrote a guest post to host the conversation over at Greener Trees.

Here's a snippet:

There is power in great beauty. Beauty heals, it soothes, it allures, it inspires. And when we see it, in a film, in a book, in a moment, it can catch us by surprise and stay with us forever. We can lift it up from the depths of our memory again and again, and every time it draws us toward the Creator of beauty, the Beautiful One Himself.

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New Guest Post at Story Warren

Have you been introduced to Story Warren yet? It's a delightful place, full of wonderful people who tell wonderful tales and recommend wonderful things. Y'all should head on over and check out one of those links in the previous sentence. Or all of them.

S.D. Smith, who runs the place with his many allies, is a highly enjoyable human being (saving his fault of hating peas). Sam was once described by my friend Laura as "the sort of person who...[will] grow up and be like Dumbledore or Obi Wan or Gandalf – speaking the words that alert you to the power/magic/force that perhaps you were too afraid to hope was real." I can't think of a better description. So when Sam wrote me a note and asked if I'd be interested in guest posting for Story Warren, I was grateful for the opportunity and told him I'd ponder what was in my head and see if anything came to the fore. He responded with "Ponder your brain contents." 

So I did. And then something came to me, and I wrote it down, and I sent it along, and Sam liked it, and today it posted over at Story Warren. Go ahead on over and check it out. Then poke around and read things like this, and this, and this. And then like them on Facebook and keep up with them. 'Cause this is something and you want to be a part of it.