Post by mongoose on Mar 20, 2007 18:06:39 GMT -5
This is my big theme thing that I wish to communicate; That God does not intervene direction in our lives, very often, but rather puts things in our paths that direct us toward Him. Characters don't know what's going on. They have some idea of God, perhaps, but reject Him. They get upset because everything in their life is going wrong, and may even blame it on God. They don't realize that he's systematically breaking down the systems on which they depend, such that, when all else has crumbled around them, they'll have to look to Him for help.
In one story, the man's whole family dies, one after another, he loses his job, effectively, and much of his money. He hatches a scheme to get it all back, but it includes losing his identity and any friends he might have had. When the money doesn't satisfy him, and he really hates what he's become, he determines to commit suicide. Finds the one woman who could ever shake him with her faith, and she ends up ministering to him, and he converting.
In another, a lady watches her father get killed, and commits herself to take revenge on the killer. In the process she steals a letter refering to a great treasure, lies to a couple of priests, winds up getting several of her collegues killed, and generaly thinks herself a miserable wreck of a sinner. Yet all this is according to God's design to secure the treasure, and her soul, for His Kingdom.
And so it goes. God works mightily, but in the background. People loose, grieve, seek, and sacrifice, and ultimatly they find satisfaction in Him where all else failed, and He is glorified.
In one story, the man's whole family dies, one after another, he loses his job, effectively, and much of his money. He hatches a scheme to get it all back, but it includes losing his identity and any friends he might have had. When the money doesn't satisfy him, and he really hates what he's become, he determines to commit suicide. Finds the one woman who could ever shake him with her faith, and she ends up ministering to him, and he converting.
In another, a lady watches her father get killed, and commits herself to take revenge on the killer. In the process she steals a letter refering to a great treasure, lies to a couple of priests, winds up getting several of her collegues killed, and generaly thinks herself a miserable wreck of a sinner. Yet all this is according to God's design to secure the treasure, and her soul, for His Kingdom.
And so it goes. God works mightily, but in the background. People loose, grieve, seek, and sacrifice, and ultimatly they find satisfaction in Him where all else failed, and He is glorified.