Shouts of Joy

My Heartfelt Gratitude... 2018 is here, bringing me to eleven 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 thank you enough, but I'm trying once again!

What to say? I'm Christian, determined to be forever single, and now 43 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 fourth. 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) 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 last updated Apr 18, 2017	Shout of Joy   My 'Misc LJ' last updated Jun 1, 2018
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	6,810	In Progress	Aug 14, 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 2018
Book	Visit
Crazy Love by Francis Chan	2nd
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin	Nth
Crash the Chatterbox by Steven Furtick	2nd
Victory in the Wilderness by John Bevere	Nth
Delighting in the Trinity by Michael Reeves	1st
Lassie Come-Home by Eric Knight	Nth
Living Life Backward by David Gibson	1st
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame	Nth
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C O'Brien	Nth
Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert DeJong	Nth
Whalesong by Robert Siegel	Nth
White Whale by Robert Siegel	Nth
The Ice at the End of the World by Robert Siegel	Nth
Silverwing by Kenneth Oppel	2nd
Sunwing by Kenneth Oppel	2nd
Firewing by Kenneth Oppel	2nd
Whisper by Mark Batterson	1st
Walking with God by John Eldredge	2nd
Chase the Lion by Mark Batterson	1st
Unexpected by Christine Caine	1st
Face to Face with God by Bill Johnson	2nd
Fear of the Lord by John Bevere	2nd

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