I have some of your books on my IPOD and over the holiday I was listening to ”The Eye of the Oracle”. I worked the holiday and Friday. Fortunately for me, my job allows for me to listen to audiobooks while I am working. While I was working quietly, I overheard someone in the lobby outside of my office complaining. I didn’t hear all the details and I didn’t want to. The tone said it all! I used to be a complainer and it took years to pray it out, scrape it out, chip it out, pray God would burn it out of me! I could feel it emanating from the next room trying to latch on me. Ugh.
It rains a lot where I live and this time of year is particularly dismal. It is dark in the morning and dark when I get off work. I work in the basement of a hospital with no windows outside. I have to work at Morale. Honestly, just about every day for the past week we have had gray or dark, looming clouds taking over the sky. I just came back in from break and someone I walked with was griping about the rain. Rain, rain, rain. It is true. The rivers are swollen and yes, there is seemingly no end to it.
On top of that add fog… I do not want to go back to being a complainer. I laughed when in the middle of all this, I heard Thygosi (spelling?) say to Makaidos, ”Praise the Maker!” The phrase stood out to me and shook me loose from the grip trying to grab hold of me. I kept saying it over and over with whatever repetitive action I did. It was time to get off work and venture out into the steady downpour. Umbrella in hand I made a run for the car. I turned my wipers on intermittent and I laughed when the words came out as the wipers swooshed. They sounded like they said the same thing ”Praise the Maker”. Lol! I needed this!
It lifted me out of the garbage! All the way home I praised Him. I was exuberant when I arrived. I think I am still a kid at heart and God blesses my heart in His imaginative ways…I love your books! There were questions I had over things mentioned in the Word for years that I finally found peace and a semblance of understanding after hearing your stories. I know they are fiction, but I had never heard anyone address those issues before, not with the depth you did and I appreciate it. Thank you! Praise the Maker!