Literary Thoughts

My study of Literature

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My First Book Haul!

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On a Fishing Boat

A quick #fiction exercise I pumped out today. Focusing on #dialogue. #writerslife

Two rivers of gold hair shot across her face. The Alaskan wind was strong. “Have you ever been drawn in a painting?” She peered up at him. “What would make you ask a thing like that?” “I just said what came into my head.” His mustache looked like an overturned canoe that hung under his innocent offended eyes. “I wouldn’t think you the kind to say whatever comes to your head.” He was already…

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The Fateful Night

A quick bit of #fiction inspired and exaggerated from camp experiences.

This is more fact than fiction. But you’re not supposed to know that. 

Mazama Bible Camp is an old World War Two training camp tucked away in the Northern Cascades of Washington State. I know because these log walls and crumbling concrete floors are lined with bunks that read: “ISSUED U.S. ARMY”. The Junior Camp boys are always fascinated when I point that out. For further proof, I tell them that…

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Trash Flash Fic No seriously this is trash, the prose too. I stood over the garbage can and spilled my guts.

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Dickinson on Poetry 

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only way I know it. Is there any other way?” 

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A Poem from Ye Governor of Ye Colony

A Poem from Ye Governor of Ye Colony

From my years young in days of youth, God did make known to me his truth, And call’d me from my native place For to enjoy the means of grace. In wilderness he did me guide, And in strange lands for me provide. In fears and wants, through weal and woe, A pilgrim, passed I to and fro : Oft left of them whom I did trust; How vain it is to rest on dust! A man of sorrows I have been, And many changes…

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Statist Religion and Education

Statist Religion, a message on why our freedoms have been lost.

The United States of America acting under unjust national and provincial powers has in principle and in all effective practices encroached on the God given rights of man. God’s gifts to man extend far beyond the Bill of rights but for the purpose of this essay the focus shall remain upon the Bill of Rights and in particular one amendment. The first amendment are premises that give the other nine…

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Homeschool

An Introduction to homeschooling.

Your child’s formative years are defined by their education. Who should define your child? You or the state?  School is where children spend most of their day, acquiring values and developing their interests. State legislators and school boards will teach loyalty to state values. As a parent you have the opportunity to instill family values through example and instruction. State teachers and…

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Civil War Letters

A brief fiction made in an attempt to write in two separate voices. Did I accomplish my mission or do they sound the same? If this is well liked I might continue the correspondence. (Warning: brief language.)

My Beloved Elaina,

How I long to be with you. Last summer, the on we spent on the banks of your Father’s lake, has left me with heartache each and every night. The moment I lay my head,…

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The Road to Serfdom

The Road to Serfdom

“Yet though the road be long, it is one on which it becomes more difficult to turn back as soon as one advances.  If in the long run we are the makers of our own fate, in the short run we are the captives of the ideas we have created.”

— F. A Hayek

Ideas have consequences. Sin is suicidal. We are our own worst enemy. The road to serfdom begins in our hearts.

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Prayer: Calvin and Rush

“[Believers] pray, in order that they may arose themselves to seek him, that they may exercise their faith in meditating on his promises, that they may relieve themselves from their anxieties by pouring them into his bosom; in a word, that they may declare that from him alone they find hope and expect, both for themselves and for others, all good things.”

— John Calvin

“Prayer is a confession of…

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Biblical Balance

“Biblical balance is a happy melding of devotion and action, being and doing, patience and passion. It manifests word and deed, faith and works, forgiveness and discipline. It is a careful integration of the inner life and the outer life. It makes quite conviction the natural companion of strident confession. It enables the head to coincide the heart. Without compromising God’s grace, it reveres…

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Rock

Rock: Some Fiction

Here is some bad prose I wrote trying to kick off a novel. It didn’t happen the way I wanted it but its here. Tell me if you like it and feel free to give pointers.

“New York was never my home,” were the words he said to a kind stranger. Rock ran into the stranger two days before. Ran into and fell on-top of. Two blocks away from an oddly named cafe, Rock looked back to see the puzzled expression…

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The Hunter

The leaves are quite. The grass is still. Long, terrible branches hold a strong and silent will. The passing storm reflects his feathers. His noble head wobbles and tethers. Like a cat his horns are perched, crowning the noble head so ably lurched. Hollow eyes shot at me, gleaming above his pointy beak. The glass orbs do more than see. He is the Hunter, but what does he seek?

9/02/14 Dedicated to…

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Men

Original poetry on our fallen nature.

Boastful is the heart of men They huff and they puff, telling the world that it should bend to them. They tell big lies and small truths.

Week is the will of men. They bend and moan, telling the world it should change for them. They fall to quaking knees and beg. They tell big lies for small fruits.

Slavery is the end of men. They boast and beg, showing that the world was made for them. They heel…

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Is the Spirit Able?

Is the Spirit Able?

“It would be easy to show that at our present rate of progress the kingdoms of this world never could become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ. Indeed, many in the Church are giving up the idea of it except on the occasion of the advent of Christ, which, as it chimes in with our own idleness, is likely to be a popular doctrine. I myself believe that King Jesus will reign, and the idols be…

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To Repent of Repentance

To Repent of Repentance

“I need to repent of my repentance. I need my tears to be washed; I have no robe to bring to cover my sins, no loom to weave my own righteousness. I am always standing clothed in filthy garments, and by grace am always receiving change of raiment, for Thou dost always justify the ungodly. I am always going into the far country, and always returning home as a prodigal, Always saying, “Father,…

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