May 15th, 2025

Ken Gire says,

“The power of story is in the way it incarnates ideas, putting flesh and blood on skeletal principles. If you want to understand the dangers of ambition, for example, to understand it in a way that will impact you the rest of your life, read The Thornbirds.

When we read such stories, with all their hardships, colors and juices, they move us not by external forces but by internal ones…By the quickening of our conscience and the stirrings of our heart.”

“My heart is stirred by a noble theme…
my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.”

— Psalm 45:1 (NIV)

Lord, may anointed authors continue to produce books that become tools in Your hands to make us into the people of God. Amen.