The history of Morning Star Fellowship continues. I want to start talking about Shawn Hart's two younger sisters, Ashley and Ruth. It looks like I'm going to talk about Ashley in two parts. The first part focuses on Ashley while the second part will focus on her children.
Ashley Hart (part 1)
Ashley was a blue-eyed blonde like her mother. Her brother and sister both had brown eyes and brown hair like their father. Ashley was known as the real pretty one. Though her sister Ruth was also pretty.
Ashley strove to be perfect in everything. Her long shoulder-length hair was always neatly brushed in place. Her clothes were always ironed, and her make-up was always flawless. Ashley was the one who was the straight "A" student. She had perfect attendance at school, and at Church. She wanted to be a perfect Christian, and the perfect friend. She was nice, sweet and respectful to everyone.
After Ashley graduated from high school she married her high school sweetheart, Glen Gale. He was from a well-to-do Christian family. Ashley and Glen lived with his parents while he went to law school. He wanted to be a lawyer just like his father. They all lived in a big 6 bedroom house with servants who waited on them. The servants lived in a small 4 apartment cottage next to the house. After Glen finished law school, he went to work at his father's law firm. Eventually Ashley and Glen and their children moved to their own big 6 bedroom house. Their only servant was a housekeeper who also helped with the cooking. She lived in the house with the family.
Ashley had always wanted to have about 3 or 4 children. She and Glen had 4 children - a son and three daughters. Ashley wanted to be the perfect wife and the perfect mother. She was a stay-at-home mom who made sure the house was always in perfect working order. Everything was always neatly in place, and nothing was left lying on the floor - even in the children's bedrooms. Meals were promptly served at the same time 7 days a week. Breakfast was always at 6 am, lunch was always at 12 noon, and dinner was always at 6 pm. Except on Sunday nights dinner was served at 8 pm - after the evening Church service. Ashley was also involved with the Women's Ministry at Church. She attended the ladies' Bible study, the monthly ladies' brunch, and all other events associated with the Women's Ministry. Besides all of that, Ashley always drove her children to school and picked them all up after school. Her children never experienced riding a school bus or waiting at a school bus stop. She also drove them to all school/Church activities that they were involved in. Ashley always made sure that everyone was always on time - never late.
Marie, Ashley's mom, often asked her, "Daughter, don't you let anything be in disarray or late or missed?"
Ashley replied, "No, Mom, everything has to be perfect."
"Who told you that?"
"I believe that we're supposed to always be perfect."
"Where in the Bible do you read that?"
Ashley could not figure out how to respond to that. She knew it wasn't exactly in the Bible. Except there was something in there where Jesus had told the disciples to be perfect as their Heavenly Father was perfect. What did Jesus really mean by that anyway?
"Only God is perfect," Mom always said.
Saturday, January 4, 2014
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Sharing My Stories
I still have the goal of eventually sharing my stories here on my blog. I already know which story I want to start with, too. I would like to finally do that this year - in 2014. That means I need to watch my time management, and I need to set some goals for myself.
"A Light Shines In The Darkness" is the book of stories (story collection) that I'm working on. It will be divided into 4 groups of stories. One group of stories hasn't been started yet - but it will be. Another group only has one story written in it right now. But, there will be more. The other two groups have at least 5 stories already written in them. One has 5, and the other one has about 7 (depending on if I keep all of the stories in there). All together, right now, this book has 13 finished stories in it. Several more stories are already planned for it.
First I have some stories to edit/revise. Second I want to write some more new stories this year to add to this story collection.
Then I want to get "A Light Shines In The Darkness" copyrighted. After that I will start sharing my stories on this blog.
When I do start sharing my stories on here, I hope you will all enjoy them. I really want my stories to inspire and encourage people in the Lord. :)
"A Light Shines In The Darkness" is the book of stories (story collection) that I'm working on. It will be divided into 4 groups of stories. One group of stories hasn't been started yet - but it will be. Another group only has one story written in it right now. But, there will be more. The other two groups have at least 5 stories already written in them. One has 5, and the other one has about 7 (depending on if I keep all of the stories in there). All together, right now, this book has 13 finished stories in it. Several more stories are already planned for it.
First I have some stories to edit/revise. Second I want to write some more new stories this year to add to this story collection.
Then I want to get "A Light Shines In The Darkness" copyrighted. After that I will start sharing my stories on this blog.
When I do start sharing my stories on here, I hope you will all enjoy them. I really want my stories to inspire and encourage people in the Lord. :)
Writing Update 1-1-14
Well, Happy New Year Everyone! Hopefully 2014 will be better than 2013. :)
For almost 2 years I worked off and on on a story tentatively titled "Grace Song". I started the first draft of this story on January 8, 2012. I finally finished it on the evening of December 31, 2013. That's just a few days shy of 2 years. The word count is 21,998 - just shy of 22,000. That's halfway to the size of a novel, by the way. It's a novella. The official title of this story is now "Shades Of Grace". The title refers to God's grace being available in various situations. I'll share one of the verses that I have placed after the end of the story.
What am I working on next? I have 3 stories that are still in their first drafts. I want to get to work editing these. These stories are "Awakened From Slumber", "The Bond", and "Witness". I know that previously I had mentioned wanting to do major revision on the story "Little Sister". "Grey's Cove" is another story that also needs major revision. I would like to work on both of these and get them both revised this year.
It's been my habit to finish 1 or 2 new stories each year. For 2013 I just barely finished 1 new story - "Shades Of Grace". Let's do better than that in 2014. I'm setting my goal at doing 3 new stories this year. If I do more than that, that will be a treat.
The hymn "Amazing Grace" (by John Newton) figures very prominently in the story "Shades Of Grace". The hymn is sung at the beginning of the story, in the middle of the story, and at the end of the story. Can you tell I love this hymn? I'll leave you with the first verse of "Amazing Grace".
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.”
Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.
For almost 2 years I worked off and on on a story tentatively titled "Grace Song". I started the first draft of this story on January 8, 2012. I finally finished it on the evening of December 31, 2013. That's just a few days shy of 2 years. The word count is 21,998 - just shy of 22,000. That's halfway to the size of a novel, by the way. It's a novella. The official title of this story is now "Shades Of Grace". The title refers to God's grace being available in various situations. I'll share one of the verses that I have placed after the end of the story.
"But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we
were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
Romans 5:8What am I working on next? I have 3 stories that are still in their first drafts. I want to get to work editing these. These stories are "Awakened From Slumber", "The Bond", and "Witness". I know that previously I had mentioned wanting to do major revision on the story "Little Sister". "Grey's Cove" is another story that also needs major revision. I would like to work on both of these and get them both revised this year.
It's been my habit to finish 1 or 2 new stories each year. For 2013 I just barely finished 1 new story - "Shades Of Grace". Let's do better than that in 2014. I'm setting my goal at doing 3 new stories this year. If I do more than that, that will be a treat.
The hymn "Amazing Grace" (by John Newton) figures very prominently in the story "Shades Of Grace". The hymn is sung at the beginning of the story, in the middle of the story, and at the end of the story. Can you tell I love this hymn? I'll leave you with the first verse of "Amazing Grace".
"Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch
like me.I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.”
Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.
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