Herein starts the first novel I wrote.  It was an idea that started more than 10 years ago and many versions that were never satisfactorily completed.

The main character's name is a bit cheesy, but please don't hold that against me.  I hope you enjoy the journey.

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I cannot tell you what a happy accident this chapter was.  At the time I wrote this, I was not a skilled outliner and I had no plan for how this book was going to end.  There's more detail in the episode to this, but let me just say that God really pulled this one out.

The added benefit was He gave me a memorable way to think about what the maturing of a person's character is like and why it's so hard to change our ways.

I hope you enjoy this chapter. And if this is your first one to check out... please go back to the beginning... it'll make A LOT more sense :)

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So now that Sabrina has been unjustly targeted by a predatory "friend," her parents have another story from the Story box for her.

I have to admit, I enjoyed writing this one as it allowed me to bring in one of the most surprising nature videos I've ever seen!

Oh! And! I think the parents come off looking especially brilliant if the father who wrote this story does say so himself. :)

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My daughter hates this chapter.  Not because it's written badly, but because... oh, the injustice of it all!

I would like to say that her reaction doesn't delight the mischievous parts of my heart, but I can't.

This chapter starts a three-chapter run to the end of the book.  I hope you enjoy(?)

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You know the saying, "Pride goes before a fall," well, sadly I think we have all experienced that more than a few times.  Favorite part of this whole story is that the achievement that the magician thinks makes him better than the king is the very thing that imprisons him.  

Kinda like Proverbs 26:27, "If you set a trap for others, you will get caught in it yourself. If you roll a boulder down on others, it will crush you instead."

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The Dodo bird is extinct largely because it was not wise to the ways and schemes of its predators. I grew up pridefully making fun of them when I watched versions of them in cartoons.  However, now that I've lived a little, I see more and more of me in the domed Dodo.  In the many enticing, but ultimately harmful delights of this world, I have either found or seen the trap spring closed.  This is the fate of the Fun Way Fool.  He is the addict, the lackey, the mark.  I pray that all of us don't fall into this foolish life pattern.

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This 3rd chapter of Sabrina Cubbins is the one my wife has used the most with our kids.  Each of them (and you and me) are trying to exert some level of control in their life - to reduce anxiety, to "put things right", etc.

But often, I have found my desire for control gets higher the more and more I'm worried about situations that are not mine to handle anyway.

Can you influence world events, weather systems, the economy?  Me either, but I sure get in a later over them and start to want to control things from the backseat... alas I release my inner Hinkle.

I hope you have fun with this one and please share with those you like sharing things with.

The fun thing about the different fool types showcased in Sabrina Cubbins and Mr. Alexander's Pottery Palace, is that they are common character archetypes for dramas and comedies.  For example, the "easy way" fool is often the dad/husband on a sit-com who seems very irresponsible and causes all kinds of exasperation for his wife.

As I mention in the episode, this is a strategy I lean toward in my not-so-great moments.  But it's also likely that 80% of men fall prey to it as well.  So, I'm in good company (?)

Here's a link to the story that helped give me the idea for Myrtle the Mess - Mortimer Mooner (https://amzn.to/3pPyhCm)

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There is a "follow me" painting place in a strip shopping center not far from my house, and it seemed like the kind of place my daughter might want to take art classes... if she didn't like dancing so much!

So my wife requested a book that could be used to help expose our daughter some more categories of foolish life-strategies than she already knew.  And here is that book!

I'm terribly indebted to Pastor Harold Bullock and all of the study and research he did and taught on this very topic.  It has been so helpful to me and so many of my friends as we try to live life God's ways!

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I hope you listen all the way to the end on this one!

I seriously still think the original ending to this story would have been attention-getting, but there's attention-getting for the right reasons and attention-getting for the wrong reasons :)This is the one that started it all!

It is a common thread of all of the best-known accounts in the Bible deal with people being rescued out of terrible circumstances.  I think because God a) wants us to see that our difficulties are normal and not a special attack from Him and b) wants us to see how badly we need to be rescued!

I hope you enjoyed listening to this chapter.  It was fun to write and fun to share with you... now, let's pull the next one off the shelf!

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