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Fidelity Over Arrogance

Attempted Wisdom

Fidelity Over Arrogance

Memorial Day Fidelity

Attempted Wisdom

Memorial Day Fidelity

Stories to Make us Brave & Dangerous to the Darkness

Allies in Imagination | Jack Zulu

Stories to Make us Brave & Dangerous to the Darkness

In-Person Workshop with S. D. Smith + FREE Writing Challenge Happening Now

Book Tour | The Green Writer

In-Person Workshop with S. D. Smith + FREE Writing Challenge Happening Now

The Tour Continues + Picket Packslayer LIVE

Book Tour

The Tour Continues + Picket Packslayer LIVE

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#GreenEmberKidArt | Book Tour

Win Cool Prizes In Person and Online

SALE | Here’s Your Code

Book Tour

SALE | Here’s Your Code

How to Bring the Addictive Power of Storytelling into your Home

Book Tour | Interviews

How to Bring the Addictive Power of Storytelling into your Home

Concerning Birthdays | FREE eBook!

Book Tour | Home. Life.

Concerning Birthdays | FREE eBook!

Encouragement to Create + Jack Zulu…Newbery Contender?

Attempted Wisdom | Jack Zulu

Encouragement to Create + Jack Zulu…Newbery Contender?

Writers, Now’s Your Chance! | Writing Resources

The Green Writer | Writing on Writing

Writers, Now’s Your Chance! | Writing Resources

The Light Shines | A Poem

Poems | Poems for Humans and Others

The Light Shines | A Poem

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Happy #FanFeatureFriday! This art comes from Shiph

Happy #FanFeatureFriday! This art comes from Shiphrah, age 15: “Picket” in clay and resin.

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God is the author of the human story. He loves mos

God is the author of the human story. He loves most and knows best. To speak of love is to speak of him. Hatred, sin, and death came when we first listened to the dragon whisper, “Did God really say?” We fell for it then and so often now.

Our problem isn’t often that God’s commands are confusing, it’s that we want what we want, even if it’s sweet-tasting poison. What comes naturally to me is often not what is best. I must listen to what God says. He made me, loves me, and has invited me into a better story than I can tell on my own.

Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil, not form a fashionable alliance with him.

I’m the best version of myself when I’m faithful to God and others in my home and community and world. Fidelity is beautiful.

I’m the worst version of myself when I throw off my duty to my fellow man and indulge myself in pride and self-centeredness. Arrogance is ugly.

Arrogance says I know better than God, that if I act on my urges and follow my own self-interest I’ll be fulfilled. It’s a lie.

We don’t need to be affirmed in our sin. We need to be called to fidelity.

I was married in June, so it’s a great month for me to focus on fidelity. I don’t need to obsess over other people’s sins as much as I need to grow in virtue myself. That’s my aim this month.

But I want to be clear. I hate the dark work of child predators. Those who expose kids to adult sexual deviancy are preying on children and breaking down barriers that make grooming them for abuse easier. To give in to that trend is to hate your neighbor and oppose God.

I don’t spend a lot of energy on criticism or reacting to the various sins the culture champions, left or right wing versions. That will be a gesture for me, not a posture.

What is my posture? Telling stories. Good stories. It is, God being my helper, living a better story.

And there is a better story! Tell it by being faithful this summer in your worship and work. Be faithful this summer and always, no matter what the gatekeepers command. Faith over fads. Faith over the sin of pride.

Tell a better story. Live a better story. Jesus is King.

Fidelity in June. Fidelity forever.

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There are more chances to catch Green Ember Live o

There are more chances to catch Green Ember Live on tour! I'll be at California (GHC) & Texas (GHC) as well as Virginia (HEAV) and Arizona (AFHE).

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Use code GREENEMBER to get $10 off registration at the Great Homeschool Conventions.

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Don Roberts was a top turret gunner and engineer o

Don Roberts was a top turret gunner and engineer on the B-17 Omar the Dentmaker. He was killed in action over Pas de Calais, France on March 26, 1944.

Don was never married, nor had children to carry on his name. He was twenty-two years old.

Don was my papaw’s best friend in the service.

My dad is named Don Smith. My dad also named his oldest son Don.

Don Roberts’ name carries on, in a way, and his memory is alive.

I think of him and the countless others like him, who gave the “last full measure of devotion,” and laid down their lives for their friends, their families, and their fellow countrymen.

In an age of radical self-definition and pride, it is inspiring to remember and honor men whose lives and deaths were marked by fidelity to something noble and beyond themselves.

We remember Donald Behrn Roberts. We remember them all.

President Lincoln said at Gettysburg that the honored dead don’t need to be dedicated, but we all do. The living.

I will honor Don’s memory today and into the next month by focusing on Fidelity.

~May light perpetual shine upon Don.~

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