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 Dec 31, 2019
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 2019
Book	Visit
The Red Sea Rules by Robert Morgan	1st
God, Where Are You?! by John Bevere	1st
The Shadow at Evening by Chris Walley	Nth
The Power of the Night by Chris Walley	Nth
The Dark Foundations by Chris Walley	Nth
The Infinite Day by Chris Walley	Nth
Deerskin by Robin McKinley	Nth
Unexpected by Christine Caine	2nd
The Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce	Nth
A Gathering of Gargoyles by Meredith Ann Pierce	Nth
The Pearl of the Soul of the World by Meredith Ann Pierce	Nth
A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott	Nth
Enjoying Intimacy with God by J Oswald Sanders	1st
It's Not Supposed to Be This Way by Lysa TerKeurst	1st
Inexpressible by Michael Card	1st
Optimisfits by Ben Courson	1st
Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia McKillip	Nth
Unshamed by Christine Caine	1st
Mystic And Rider by Sharon Shinn	Nth
Dark Moon Defender by Sharon Shinn	Nth
Thanks for the Feedback by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen	1st
The Knowledge of the Holy by A W Tozer	1st
Between Life and Death by Kathryn Butler, MD	1st
Theodicy of Love by John C Peckham	1st
New Morning Mercies by Paul David Tripp	2nd
The One Year Experiencing God's Presence Devotional by Chris Tiegreen	2nd
The Holy Bible (ESV)	Nth

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