Shouts of Joy

My Heartfelt Gratitude... 2020 is here, bringing me to thirteen years since the worst period of my life during the hell year of 2007. As ever, I must express my unending gratitude for those who blessed me in those black months--most of all by following along with my life in shouts_of_joy and caring enough to leave a note. Also by remembering me in their prayers--so precious every one of them! And of course the blessings of a note, email, or phone call. I am so grateful for those wonderful people, their kindness, their mercy and compassion, and also to those who displayed simple decency, of which there can never be too much in this world. Thank you, thank you! Were it not for you, my Geren novels would remain forever incomplete, my novellas would not exist, The Chronicles of Delarun and The Fourth Emissary would never be written, and the Triune novels would never have been started. I can never possibly thank you enough, but I don't plan to stop trying either! =)

What to say? I'm Christian, determined to be forever single, and now 44 years old. I've a great love for God's creation, and I've loved fantasy and fantasy stories since I discovered The Lorax and The Hobbit as a kid. Now I'm long out of college and working a good job in the 'real world,' with no more pets, and a small horde of houseplants sharing my home.

Being the contrary sort that I am, not only do I want to get collections of icons that break no copyright laws...I also want a journal that's just for positives! Quite enough bitching and ranting out on the web; here is the utter opposite.

I've been posting here regularly since late 2006, and most of my entries are about the daily joys of things I've seen, experienced, or accomplished. (I try to spare the world the disturbing experience of continual gushes about t'DoL.)

So that's what is in this journal. Happy gurgles, thankful blathering, grateful gushing...just burbles of delight as this lover of sorrow expresses her joy.

"Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy!"
Psalm 126:5

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My passion in life revolves around a set of five books comprising a huge fantasy story, of which I'm currently rewriting the fifth. As for writing itself...I hate it. The only reason I can make myself write is because my love for the characters in my stories (primarily the Defender of Life, aka t'DoL) is strong enough to overwhelm that dislike. If my love for him ever dies, then I shall write no more...but I'm not worried about that happening!

February of 2018 brought me to the twenty-fifth anniversary of when I first started drawing a man with wings bright-hued like a parrot's and wondered who he was... Now I'm more insane about him, and all his world, than ever. It has been quite a momentous 'chase,' and I look forward to where my pen will take me.

My Stumping Grounds
Avarii Wings Triune books place (closed)	Shout of Joy   My 'Misc LJ' last updated Jan 25, 2020
FictionPress   Hope's Passage and poems	Vue Portfolio Assorted CGI art

Stories Resources
Stories Descriptions	Stories Timeline	Map Mania!
Pronunciation Guide	What's cooking...	Beginnings

Writing Projects
Name	Word Count	Status	Latest Progress
The Lark and the Lion	13,670	Complete!	Sept 15, 2018
Relentless	5,930	Complete!	Feb 19, 2018
The Deceptions of Hu-Havenn	19,640	Complete!	Nov 13, 2017
The Desolation of Triune	3,800	Stopped	May 2, 2017

 

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Anything Goes in 2020
Book	Visit
The Red Sea Rules by Robert Morgan	2nd
Waiting for Your Ministry by Grantley Morris	Nth
Star Trek: Ishmael by Barbara A Hambly	Nth
Adorning The Dark by Andrew Peterson	1st
The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle	Nth
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle	Nth
Star Trek: Federation by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens	Nth
The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien	Nth
Escape From the Twisted Planet by Harold L Myra	Nth
God Told Me by Jim Samra	1st
Delighting in the Trinity by Jim Samra	2nd
Victory Over the Darkness by Neil T Anderson	Nth

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