The Karnival Arrives 2012
Coming up pretty soon, I will be joining friends in a project we have been developing called, Karni House. It will be our very own little online publishing house. Our hope is to have several fiction series being posted each week and eventually self publishing the completed works. I will be writing my very own fiction series, which I’m still developing, but will be a thriller/action adventure. More to come on that later.
Read MoreA Patchwork of Freedom: Underground Railroad
My short story, “Underground Railroad” published in Lori Wagner’s A Patchwork of Freedom, explores the ‘Lovely Traces’ God has left behind for us to find, so we can see that He has been working in our lives from the very beginning. From bad comes good. You just have to wait to see the bigger picture…Or in this case, the bigger mosaic of a quilt!
Isaiah 41:10: “Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.”
Jeremiah. 29:11-13: “For I know the plans I have for you”, declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart.”
“I was consumed by a life that I made destined to crash. Beat up and bruised. By the flashbacks of my own past. I tried to hide away. Till I heard you say, ‘lovely traces fall behind you. Turn around and you will see, lovely traces to remind you, everything that you’ve been through, what it took to get you to me.’” – Krystal Meyers
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Harry’s Last Stand: A Faith Based Look at The Deathly Hallows
In anticipation of the release of the two part film version of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, I decided to post my review of the book that was featured on RelevantMagazine.com. This is more of a Christian, faith based look into the world of Harry Potter and his last journey. I hope you enjoy it!
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As the last book opens, we learn that war has broken out in the wizarding world, and Harry finds himself facing the forces of evil with only the company of his friends Ron and Hermione. Wizards who do not support Voldemort are forced into hiding, murders are happening every day and Harry and his friends are being stalked ruthlessly by Death Eaters. With a mark on his head and filled with doubt about his only guide Dumbledore, Harry races to find the last of the Horcruxes and defeat Lord Voldemort once and for all.
Reading the final installment in the much beloved series, I began to see many similarities to our own lives as Christians. As the world came tumbling down around Harry with a government overrun by evildoers, I saw historic similarities of World War II. In the novel, dark wizards take over the government and begin to seize “Mudbloods” (wizards and witches born from Muggle, or non-wizards). Propaganda was distributed declaring that the Mudbloods were dangerous. Money was offered to anyone who turned in a Muggle-born. These Mudbloods were then imprisoned, tortured and murdered, all in the hope of creating a “pure” magical race. All of this echoed what happened in Germany to the Jews as Hitler tried to realize his dreams of a “pure” Aryan race. There were also similarities in the story to what some Christians think the “end times” might be like if the anti-christ came to power and began to fight and exterminate believers. Harry, his band of followers and their adventures reminded me that no matter what, we as Christians should never lose faith and continue to fight for what we believe in.
A Little About Me
I’m a part-time writer, full-time procrastinator. I love romantic comedies and action flicks. I find the world funny and try to focus on the good and not the bad. But most of all, I’m just someone trying to find his place in the world and find love and friendship along the way. So I hope you enjoy these musings of a world of insanity.