Songs for the King

Psalm 23:1
The LORD is my Shepherd.  I have everything I need.
Psalm 23:4
Though I walk through the valley of the Shadow of death, I will fear no evil. 
For you are with me.  Your right hand will hold me fast.
(variation of different translations of the Bible) 
 When you let the King into your life, every day will be an adventure.

I write fairy-stories.  That is what J R R Tolkien called it.  He didn't like to call it a fantasy or a fairy tale, because a tale is just a fictional story that is told and a fantasy is like a lie that was created.  He wrote a very large essay called "On Fairy Stories".  I'm reading it.

I ventured to the shadowy old bookstore far away, and explored the narrow passages between towering straight shelves. Found the Return of the King, the Unfinished Tales, and the Silmarillion, the epic history of the Elves. Brought the treasures home so I could scavenge the pages for elvish and copy it onto paper and translate it. I'm teaching myself Elvish.  
Went to the library and brought back other Tolkien books about Elvish.   I am studying from them(Tree and Leaf, his biography, book about his languages which isn't complete, etc.), and writing down as much as I can. Watched a Doctor Who episode with my sister. Organizing things. Reading Aurlalia's Colors with my mom.

Comment below if you know any Elvish or want to join me in this adventure.

Professor paid with Chocolate

It is still in the triple digits outside.  It's been that way for weeks. 
At least, I get to out-wait it in the cold library, becoming like a professor(haha, picture me with long grey hair and old glasses with a stack of papers and books in my hands), volunteering.  Signing children into the summer reading program(and now, today is the last day).
I am getting paid with a large bar of pure milk chocolate.  Not bad, considering it is a volunteering job.
Reading the bookseries the Series of Unfortunate Events.  On book 8, and just about to finish it.
If you decide to read those books(you'll have to skip over the narrator's lectures on why you shouldn't read this 'dreadful' bookseries), I would advise you to skip book four, since that one is a little weird.  But I really like the books.  Full of mystery, inventions, an evil, greedy count that JUST WON'T GIVE UP!  The books are funny too, and very exciting, because this one 'Count Olaf' wants to get his hands on the fortune that these three orphans will inherit from their parents.  So he also wants to kill them.  But these children stick together and help each-other and hardly ever split up.  Violet is an inventor(the oldest at fourteen) who can do amazing things with plain objects.  Klaus loves to read books on information(books about breaking codes, sailing, and anything) and remembers all that he reads.
Sunny, who is barely two years old, loves to bite things, and has four very useful sharp teeth.
I will not give anything away, for in book five, they meet some interesting people and begin to unravel secrets about their parents.

Never Alone!(this is a quote from the Door Within Books, in case you didn't know)  :)

The Door Within

The Door Within is a favorite Christian fantasy book trilogy of mine.  Maidens, Dragons, Unicorns, Knights of Alleble and Dark knights of Paragor.  A teenage boy finds scrolls about Alleble in three clay pots that shattered the moment he touched them.  Aidan finds a passage to the other world.  It is within his faith that he can go to the realm.  The place is real; it is certainly NOT from his imagination.  There is a good King, and a bad person that calls himself a Prince.  There is a war, and twelve knights sent on a quest.

The Door Within is the first book.
The Rise of the Wyrm Lord is the second book.
The Final Storm is the third and last book.

I encourage you to read these books.  They are very good and exciting.  They were thinking of making a movie, but I don't know when that's going to happen.

The Drought and the past

Yes, it is very very hot outside, regardless of the little dots of rain we received last night.  Not long ago, I went on vacation with my family to Indiana and we saw the beautiful woods in all their beauty.  I felt like I was at home.  The weather had been so perfect.  There were hardly any mosquitoes.  There were NO roaches as far as I could see in the week that I was away from my home.  I was given more books from my grandmother(five books in the Home to Heather Creek series, and another book called Angel Sister).  I've written a lot since last time I wrote in this 'online journal'.  Ryann Watters is going to be two movies based on the two books in the series(Ryann Watters and the King's Sword, and Ryann Watters and the Shield of Faith).  The scripts have been completed.  I am excited for the movie.
I am also excited(maybe a little bit more excited) for the Hobbit part 1: An Unexpected Journey to come to theaters.

The Fading Story is revealing itself, and taking shape.  God is helping me. 

Never Alone!

Blog pages and new book

My sister had ordered something in the mail.  I didn't know what it was.  A package came in the mail not long ago and I put it in her room for when she got home from work at the library.
She found it and opened it, and a fat green book with a sword and a young lady on the cover came out.  It was familiar for a reason; my sister had inter-library-loaned it and read it years ago, and loved it.  All I remembered from what she had told me was something about boxes moved about in the attic to make a portal, and a mom who was reading about Debora in the Bible went to another world and became a Restorer(the name of the book; the Restorer).

I wasn't very interested in it at first, but read the first page anyway.  I didn't feel bored of it; I understood the main character perfectly.  My sister wouldn't let me get my claws on it that night though, because I had other books from the library out, that I was supposed to read.
And so I did read more of my library books, while the Restorer looked more and more mysterious, like a special book just waiting for me to read it.
The day after, I asked her again, and she let me.  That night after washing my hair, it was raining outside, with strong thunder and flashing lightning.  I watched as the clock stroke twelve; I opened the book, and read.
It was so exciting and mysterious, because in the book, when the mother finds herself in this other world, it is raining there, just as it was raining here. 
I shall tell you what I think of the book once I have finished it.

I found out how to make a single page(look up) but I don't know how to make two or three on my blog.  If any of you know how, could you help me please?

Have a wonderful day and week!  God Bless you!

All Types of Keys

Rays of a setting sun fall through space and cloud, leaf and feather, branch and glass, to rest in my short dark but now golden hair.
I was hiding in a corner of the forest of pages and covers and doors.  Spidery long white fingers clawed at a new but old book that I had never noticed before in our library.  A single word painted in calligraphy on the faded brown doors echoed in my mind; Elfsong.  A girl, little people who ride the backs of cats, the mysterious other side of the languages; the languages of animals.

There are so many things I could call a library:  an active museum of dead, sliced, painted, decorated trees collected into stories.  A forest of pages and doors and covers.  A library.  A vast collection of stories packed into sections woven together with thread, glue, and fabric, put together on shelves.  History.  Nonfiction.  Fantasy.  Science Fiction.  Mysteries.  Romance Novels.  Westerns.  Historical Fiction.

The Keys to the door of a book are your curious fingers and a dedicated mind.  Will you emerge yourself completely into an unknown book that you have never heard of before and just now met at the library?  It depends on whether or not it is a children's book, an innocent story about innocent children, or a journey through uncharted woods and lands, or an adult book with a terrible design on the door.  No!  Don't pick up that one; that door into the maze of words looks too scary, or too weird, or too unfamiliar and dark.

The keys to a piano, I press down.  Sound vibrates, music echoes, an emotion plays into your mind, creating and painting a picture.  Sadness, a cold knife against your chest, threatening to break your heart.  Then tears of joy realizing the comfort of our God. 

And at last I come to a familiar song I have heard before I have played it.  A song that makes me feel like everyone has a purpose; a mission; an important job and adventure in life.  From Doctor Who tv show.
If a friend of mine hadn't sent me a similar link, I probably wouldn't be a Doctor Who fan today.  Listen to all of it.  It reminded me of many things. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND9-z0EBEnk

And another key; the key to heaven is Jesus who died and came back to life after three days.  He was killed and betrayed by us.  We beat him up.  We called him names.  Now-days, people use his name without talking to him or about him.  They just say it as if it is the most normal word to use in the English language.  Anyway, Jesus knew he was going to be killed.  He let them.  He took all our wrong-doings onto himself and took the penalty of it so that we wouldn't have to.  When we die, we can go to heaven.  We just need to accept God's gift.  Becoming a disciple of Christ is the most exciting and important thing that you can ever choose.

Anyway.  Have fun and enjoy the music!  Jesus is alive!  Now go out there and do what you were born to do!  Oh happy day.  Have a merry day!

Summer

It is too summery outside.  Late nineties in the day, and late seventies at night.  I want the sixties and fifties uh-gain!  I wish for rain.  We could certainly need it(looks at the large cracks in the dry earth in the garden outside).
Ordered a book online, and I'm loving the wait of a package in the mail.  It will come soon.  It is called, "How to Write a Book in 90 Days God's Way."
I am sure it will be helpful.
You should look for it in stores too if you want it, because I couldn't find it in the US library selection.
I've been sending my family pieces of my book.  I better finish the rough draft so I can send more to them.
By the way, I believe that Justin Bieber is bringing back the eighties music(high voiced singing).  They are still making Doctor Who episodes.  I sort of like Doctor Who besides the weird creatures.

There is always hope.  Happy day!