I know, I know. As emcee-extraordinaire Rakim would say, “it’s been a long time, I shouldn’ta left you…” .
Lots of personal (good, not bad!) things have been going on this summer, so I took a little sabbatical from posting. I have returned, and I’ll use the same time to update here as I will be doing to write the sequel to The Twelfth Window. Before I begin, more shoutouts to Strategic Vision, LLC publicity company. They are making me put my spiritual money where my spiritual mouth is-most recently I was a guest with Coach & Joel on “The Morning Break Sports Show”, on AM1240 and AM1470 in Chicago. The subject was “should prayer be legislated in public schools?” . A spirited conversation was had after being roundly booed about my vicariously supporting the New York Mets baseball team. Thank you, Coach & Joel, for having me on as a guest!
Chapter 38 begins the series of Lisa’s private meetings with Michael about the events of the past weekend. I meant it to reflect Israel’s repentance in the Book of Daniel, and of the experience of a faithful Catholic in the confessional booth. In Chapter 39, now that I look at it, I was being led to warn the reader against scrupulousness. (Scrupulousness is when you keep confessing sins back-to-back, like spiritual OCD.) The ending of Chapter 38 clearly shows that things are moving along the right path to reconciliation despite Lisa second-guessing herself and Michael, while Chapter 40 ends with divine assurance that I think every human being needs in order to move further into the only relationship that will ever matter this side of the grave.
It took three chapters for Lisa to move past her lowest point in the story. Maybe it has to do with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. #38’s forgiveness comes after a chastisement likened unto the Book of Daniel, #39’s comes in the form of a voice only, and #40’s comes in human form, face-to-face, and divine. Further proof that I had some assistance in writing The Twelfth Window.
Next go-around is the beginning of Act IV of the story, where I will lay out chapters 41 through 43.
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The Twelfth Window 