So Serious Saturday #25

Fiction needs a basis in reality. Exercising non-fiction muscles once in a while benefits an active imagination, channeling creative energies as it focuses on a subject. So Serious Saturdays will be an active place for critical essays or writing about reality in the context of real events - even when it is not written on Saturdays.

Type: Observation

The New Pottermore

     Pottermore recently launched sorting quizzes in what I like to call its grand reopening. Each registered user can not only discover their Hogwarts House, but also their personalized wand.

Visiting

     I had never been on the site before. Of course, I'd looked at its front page in the old version, but that was as far as I got. I did not want to enter into another online game at that time, fearing that I would visit it more often than Dobby says "Harry Potter". After some time I decided I would give the game a chance to enter my routine, but - wouldn't you know it? - the site was undergoing a radical reconstruction.

So Serious Saturday #24

Fiction needs a basis in reality. Exercising non-fiction muscles once in a while benefits an active imagination, channeling creative energies as it focuses on a subject. So Serious Saturdays will be an active place for critical essays or writing about reality in the context of real events - even when it is not written on Saturdays.

Type: Theological/Life Application

In Difficult Places

        "Then all the congregation of the children of Israel set out on their journey from the Wilderness of Sin, according to the commandment of the LORD, and camped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink. Therefore the people contended with Moses, and said, "Give us water, that we may drink." So Moses said to them, "Why do you contend with me? Why do you tempt the LORD?"  And the people thirsted there for water, and the people complained against Moses, and said, "Why is it you have brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?"

                      Exodus 17:1-3

The Holy Bible, NKJV. Thomas Nelson, 1990.

      God commanded the children of Israel to go to a certain place, which turned out to be a desert without  water. God did not lead the people to a place of ease, where water or resources came easy. He led them to a natural place of death, where they and their families and economic livelihood would die without both food and drink.  So why did God lead them to a difficult place?