The Social Porcupine

While cleaning awhile back the thoughts in this meme stumbled into my mind. And so I posted them on fb. I was slightly surprised at the variety of responses I received. A strong Christian woman who is active in knowing what's happening around her agreed . A bisexual Liberal agreed . A wife of a military man agreed.  A few other people agreed.  But many, many, many Christian authors disagreed .  The people with voices were the ones that said, "No, politics don't matter. And sharing our opinion doesn't help." "Then . . . why do you write???" I'm starting to realize is politics is a very distracting word. To many it means FIGHTING ANGRILY AND FORCIBLY OVER THINGS THAT DON'T REALLY MATTER. But that's not real politics. Politics is the all the little things that connect citizens and a country together as a whole unit. Politics is the science behind the laws, the beliefs behind the government, the culture of our environment...

(To be) Convicted. The thing about conviction is that it can happen in strange ways - and right when you are least expecting it. Maybe even through words you hear all the time. Convictions - there's no stopping them, there's just ignoring them. And I've found that if you need to hear something - you will hear it. In life, we all have, to some degree, a glimpse of what we should do, a taste of what our purpose and calling is. Some of us have blocked it out, and some of us have a hard time seeing it, but over all, we each have a goal, a destiny. But sometimes we loose sight of what our purpose is Last couple weeks I have been experiencing this. I was starting to lack passion and even sight of my goal. The worst thing is I wasn't paying attention, and to such an extent that I didn't realize I was no longer focused on what I should have been. I first came to this realization the other morning when an older man was speaking to me. Now, it is not ...