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@joelle-stone

Hi Joelle,

*bows*

Thank you.  Beats just sayin’ “Hello” doesn’t it. 😉

I do agree about the “love at first sight” nonsense. I cannot even begin to count the people that have been harmed by that old “romantic notion”.  It definitely is NOT biblical.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. [1 Corinthians 13:4 NIV]

Sight attraction alone does nothing more than peak an interest, but you cannot truly “love” someone that you never take the time to know without letting desire cloud your judgement and make you myopically blind to any good sense you possessed before “sighting” the “new object” of the affection.

Love has knowledge, patience, gentle and respectful pacing and it protects and has staying power and consistency over time and through a variety of challenges and frustrations.  God defines it that way, and I’ll take His definition of it every time over the fake pretending that leads to self-deception, justification and ultimately the realization of being used to build another’s ego.

Trust is earned. Scripture says:

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. [Proverbs 4:23 NIV]

That is an imperative statement. A charge given to us by God, who gives us individual worth and value that we should never diminish or have to trade to “be/feel/experience love”.

No one has a right to diminish, abuse or disrespect the cherished value placed upon us by Our Creator.

This is why I cannot stomach any of the “world’s” versions of “romance”.

Give me the real, not the shiny fakes that lure people away into losing the sense of their identity, for the sake of [finger quotes] “love”.

1. How old are you? [Ahhh. This is where I am reluctant to reveal because it can carry so many assumptions that might dismiss me entirely…  Let’s just say, no one ever guesses how old I am by my appearance, but the Lord has been very kind to me, and my wife is both a corporate lawyer and a Body-Pump fitness instructor, so she makes sure I eat right (organic and what-not) and exercise more frequently than I would like.  I am the eldest son of a country-preacher.] You can check my author page on my Excavatia Blog: Click Link Here
2. What genre do you like to write? [I am an eclectic, so whatever I am led to write, as God’s Spirit leads me, and I am bound to follow.]  But my preferences tend to run to Fantasy and Science-Fiction, then Mysteries and High-adventure, and I love psychological thrillers but am finding it difficult to write one.
3. What would you like to be called? “Good and Faithful Servant” [See Matthew 25:21]