I love to write. I have all these characters in my head just dying to have their stories told.
The story creation and character development are my favorite parts of the process. This is where I use large brush strokes and choose the dominant colors. The picture begins to emerge and shapes are noticeable.
Then comes the editing—the checking of facts, consistency, clarity, word choice. This step is where I take the fine brush and start to give more definition to the characters, apply shading, deepen the colors, and sharpen the hues. I enjoy this part because this is how the story gets stronger, bolder, sharper.
But I hate. Absolutely HATE—Proofreading. Proofreading is focusing on the minutia— surface-level errors: spelling, grammar punctuation. It’s like looking for that one dab of misplaced paint. It is tedious. It is mind numbing. But it is necessary. It could mar the entire work.
All of life is like that. The big fun things that we can’t wait to do bumping right up next to the boring, the dreary, the uninteresting. The trip to Scotland followed by cleaning the bathrooms. We don’t want to do the mundane, the uninspiring, the hard.
In Paul’s letter to the Colossians, he addresses this tendency to want to skirt the hard stuff in chapter 3 when he addresses Christian households: wives, husbands, fathers, slaves.
He doesn’t instruct them on taking vacations, or going on picnics, or enjoying one’s free time. That part’s fun. No . . . instead . . . he addresses the tough stuff: submitting; loving; obeying.
Then he follows these commands with the all-encompassing directive in verse 3 “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord.” (emphasis mine)
No matter where we are in life—what job we have for whatever boss and coworkers we might have. Whatever role we are currently required to fill within our family, our community, or our church. We are to embrace every part of it—the parts we like and the parts we don’t—in the same way — with all our heart, and as for the Lord.
Since He has giving us His all, His best, His one and only son, He deserves only our best, and His opinion and favor are the only ones we should be concerned about
The story creation and character development are my favorite parts of the process. This is where I use large brush strokes and choose the dominant colors. The picture begins to emerge and shapes are noticeable.
Then comes the editing—the checking of facts, consistency, clarity, word choice. This step is where I take the fine brush and start to give more definition to the characters, apply shading, deepen the colors, and sharpen the hues. I enjoy this part because this is how the story gets stronger, bolder, sharper.
But I hate. Absolutely HATE—Proofreading. Proofreading is focusing on the minutia— surface-level errors: spelling, grammar punctuation. It’s like looking for that one dab of misplaced paint. It is tedious. It is mind numbing. But it is necessary. It could mar the entire work.
All of life is like that. The big fun things that we can’t wait to do bumping right up next to the boring, the dreary, the uninteresting. The trip to Scotland followed by cleaning the bathrooms. We don’t want to do the mundane, the uninspiring, the hard.
In Paul’s letter to the Colossians, he addresses this tendency to want to skirt the hard stuff in chapter 3 when he addresses Christian households: wives, husbands, fathers, slaves.
He doesn’t instruct them on taking vacations, or going on picnics, or enjoying one’s free time. That part’s fun. No . . . instead . . . he addresses the tough stuff: submitting; loving; obeying.
Then he follows these commands with the all-encompassing directive in verse 3 “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord.” (emphasis mine)
No matter where we are in life—what job we have for whatever boss and coworkers we might have. Whatever role we are currently required to fill within our family, our community, or our church. We are to embrace every part of it—the parts we like and the parts we don’t—in the same way — with all our heart, and as for the Lord.
Since He has giving us His all, His best, His one and only son, He deserves only our best, and His opinion and favor are the only ones we should be concerned about
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