The world can be a dark and dangerous place.
That does not often hear you from parents, especially divine. We tend to reach for softer sentences. We want to protect our children. Wrap the world in filling. But the truth has a way to push through.
As a father of three (barring to an empty nest with fear and trembling), I remember those years of stories about going to sleep – stories about adventure and danger spinning, where heroes triumphed and rode in the sunset. Those were precious times. But something interesting continued to happen. Almost like a timepiece my children would turn around and ask:
“Tell us a story about your life!”
At the end of a long day I usually did not have the energy. But once I started working, sharing roads from my youth in Arkansas, they were all in it. Eyes wide. Listening like the story was the most fascinating thing they had ever heard.
They wanted to know what it was like when I was a child. Someone like them. They wanted to see themselves in the story. Whether they realized it or not, they asked a little deeper: I am alone?
Isn’t that why we love stories? Why do we read? Why do we keep returning to the same books and characters who speak with something in us? Because a great story not only entertains us – it tells the truth. The kind of truth that says that the world is broken but beautiful. That there is darkness, yes, but also wondered and light. The kind of truth that reminds us that we are not alone, and we are not without hope.
In the stories that last, they get stuck in our hearts and the Spirit, the characters really feel. They fight against fights that we recognize. They wear wounds that we understand.
Frodo failed, but Sam was there to wear it.
And would the ring ever be destroyed if Gollum had not taken him back?
Life can become messy. It is not always tied in a perfect small arch. The sooner we accept that, the better. But here is the beautiful part: God moves in the mess. He works in the dark. He blesses through our blunders.
And I say, Hallelujah for that!
My new book, The Sapphire numberContinue the story of the O’ryan -children – Slugger, Flint and Scout. After handling the sapphire sword and saving the earth from pestilential darkness, they now look for the stars for their missing mother.
But nothing goes as planned.
There is fear. There is failure. There is even betrayal.
Every brother or sister has to face his own weakness. They will reach the end of themselves, but even think that even in the chaos light is still shining. And hope can be closer than ever.
As an author, my deepest desire is that readers will find the same hope in their own lives. In the middle of pain, failure or fear. If everything seems lost. I want them to know that there is still victory. To hear the song of God’s proximity and grace. To feel, even for a moment, the power of his endless love.
Yes, the world can be a dark and dangerous place.
But Jesus has overcome the world.
And the battle has already been won.
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The Sapphire numberThrough Robert Fulleris the second episode in the Sapphire Saga trilogy. It tells the exciting story of three space -like sisters of the space that learn a shocking secret and start a treacherous, interplanetary mission to save an alien civilization from threatening danger.
After handling the unparalleled power of the sapphire sword to save the earth, Slugger, Flint and Explorer, spend their days sailing the cosmos and exploring the infinite possibilities on board the Nautilustheir spatial spatial spaceship. Life is a sweet adventure that their father reveals a stunning bit of Intel that everything changes.
Soon they will be taken to a strange planet looking for an old, all -seeing entity. Can the person they call Luminor shed some light on their father’s revelation?
Together with their curious new companion, the O’ryan -Clan is confronted with dangers who will test their faith and steadfastness when a vague melody continues to sound: Peace is quiet.
Read more about the book and how you can buy here.