- I submitted a manuscript on end of life care to a well-known Catholic publication. I won't share which one just yet, though I will say it is NOT National Catholic Reporter or America. I will most likely be months before I hear from them. Whether accepted or rejected, I'll let you know as soon as I know. Thanks for your prayers! All glory and honor to God!
- I am currently writing a novel that I have been muddling with for over a year. I am not yet ready to share with you the main conflict of the story, but I will give you an introduction of sorts:
Some would say that a man is judged by the sum of all he’s said and done
in life. Omissions in word and deed tend to slip the memory, like an errand left unfinished. For many, it is the inaction at a single moment in time that weighs more
heavily upon their hearts than all of their deeds together.
We meet Matthew Edwards at the end of his rope and near despair. Raised in a Catholic family that was broken by divorce and paternal desertion, he is now an adult and has cut himself off from anyone who ever loved him. Until the moment we meet him, he was a workaholic seeking to fill the emptiness he created. Matthew has now quit his job and finds even the simplest of tasks immeasurably difficult.
Matthew is startled to see "Crazy Benny," a scruffy old tramp from next door who picks through garbage on collection day for junk looking in his car window. What Matthew learns about himself with the help of "Crazy Benny" over the next months will help Matthew set his life in a new and hopeful direction.
Forgiveness. Life. Second chances. Love. Family.
I'll keep you updated as to my progress. Please pray for me! Thanks and God bless you.
Word count February 21, 2012: 7,243
"Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on earth. Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given." -- G.K. Chesterton, Robert Browning, 1903
