T.W. Ambrose
Dear Readers,
I have been struggling over the past two weeks greatly over what to say here this month. In all honesty it has been a rough month for me personally; in part because I was laid off from a job I loved, in part because after celebrating my 12 anniversary I realized I am nowhere near where I hoped to be at this point in life, and in part because I am just plain tired with big decisions looming. All in all June 2010 just wasn’t the month I had hoped it would be.
Yesterday,
however, I finished reading a book by Grace Bridges entitled The Legendary Space Pilgrims and in this
book was the ever so important message that God is always with us, God will
always give us what we need, and He will direct our path. What amazing reminders
after the month I’ve had. I finished the book and felt renewed and
rejuvenated and found myself in prayer more deeply than I had been before.
I have been asked several times before - why as a conservative Christian do I spend so much time and effort with fiction? I think this experience as much as anything else answers the question. I believe God can use fiction to speak to people, and C.S. Lewis didn’t have a monopoly on that. It seems so strange to me sometimes that we accept non-fiction, music, movies and any number of other mediums to grow closer to God, but fiction is left out in the rain. Fiction can open our eyes to many things; good fiction causes us to examine our thoughts, our beliefs and ourselves.
I
hope Digital Dragon Magazine, and its
family-friendly atmosphere provides this to you a on a monthly basis. I
hope it gives you a chance to feel refreshed and rejuvenated, a chance to have
your eyes opened as you look at something from a different angle, a chance
to merely escape the outside world for a moment and focus on something
else.
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