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🙂 Yes, yes I know.  I have 70 chapters written as the first draft, but I realized that the “book” was getting too long for a single book.  I found there was a natural break at Chapter 31 that could serve as the end of Book 1 and set up the sequel with book 2 to commence from Chapters 32 to 70 which would make each book about equal in length.  Approximately 300 pages per book, but that is about on par for a typical fantasy novel and far less than say that of a B. Sanderson or even a S. King novel.  So these two rough drafts were my “finding my way” story, but they clarified as I went.  Now I am plowing through the rewrites unceremoniously to get a more cohesive and targeted story centralized better under the theme of “the discovery path Lordship.”  A lot has been written on the “journey to faith” but I feel called to write a story that deals with the “maturation of a journey with faith.”  For instance, if the biblical text could be wielded as it describes itself as a “living sword capably of cowing demonic principalities, revealing truth from deception, cleaving through the division of the joints and marrow, and finding that dividing line between the soul and spirit” I wondered what that might look like.  What would it mean to cast our crowns at Jesus’s feet.  What is “the quickening” of the Holy Spirit and how it was used to allow Sampson to carry off the massive gates of a city or to allow Elisha to outrun a speeding horse-drawn chariot.  What is the implication of finding God’s strength is made perfect in our weaknesses?  The faith walk of a believer is not in finding our own strength, but in finding His strength, bearing us up in the journey to which we are called.  In learning to follow His lead, we become more and more acquainted with His goodness and perfection and find His equipping to be far greater than anything we could muster up in ourselves.  Grace brings us to a place of not just redemption for a future in heaven, but for an acknowledgment that Jesus is the Savior of our present life.  A walk through the darkness is made possible because we do not walk blind and alone.  He wants us to see Him through the eyes of faith, and to experience Him daily, moment by moment.  The characters in this story are flawed, wounded, and guilty, yet seeking.