We All Have Our Strengths and Weaknesses

     Ok so raise your hand if you are scared and feel week some times. If you didn't I would have to assume you are lieing....sorry. I am human you are human we are all human and no matter hiw brave or strong we are on the out side....IT'S THE INSIDE THAT COUNTS! I bet you've heard that one before! You see the pic up top? Nodd your head and say yes, ok, now read it. What does it say?? Say it out loud I want to hear you! Ok good! (Yes this is an active participation!)
       It says: God is our refuge and strength!. Ok so what does that mean? I am getting there hold on. Back to you and I being human and feeling fear and weekness. Often times Characters in books are always strong on the out side but week on the inside or they are Brave on the out side and so afriad on the inside. I admit I have a character like that.......   but for her things are a bit different. She is portrayed as a stong, fearless, compasionate, loving woman. Did you see the last two? Most of the time the brave fearles characters dont have these two very(in my opinoin) important chararistics! They are brave but lack compasssion they are fearless but lack love. And more oft than not the characters don't have God and if you dont have God all these chararistics are impossible! Arin is my chaeacters name... well her full name is Areial Arin. Areial means lion of God and Arin means mountain of strength. My character is a woman yes. Well she's a woman she  can't be named that!
  Oh yes she can! Arin has a twin brother she feels she needs and wanta to protect (no hes not helpless infact he is quite strong) along with everyother person that happens to travel or live with  them. She has fears and weeknesses. And belive me she is not a feminest either. She does wear trousers and a shirt but taking into consideration she was raised to do battle and a skirt is not really convineant in that kind of a situation, i think we are ok. Arin is a practical woman and prefers the simple necesities of life over the extraveagant luxuries.
  Any way..... She is brave fearless and stubborn but she is loving compassionate and kind. And with out King Theros(our representaion of God) she woyld not have any of those traits. She is afraid more than you would think and belive me she does have weaknesses. But the stength of King Theros Is what keeps her chin up and her confident air about her!
    I can do all things through Chrust who gives me stength! Phillipians 

I hope this has inspierd you and made you thought full. GOD BLESS!

Nobody's Perfect

Hey all,

Are you perfect? I know I'm not. I don't have very good patience with anyone over the age of six and who is human. And sometimes I even lose my patience with little kids and animals. That's all I'm going to list, I don't want you guys thinking too badly of me. ;)  
 But everyone has their goods and their bads. Today we are going to talk about the bads. With some characters this is very easy to come up with, 'Oh sure, Billy can't say one sentence without arguing about something.' But with others it like, well... she... um... I've had a few of those characters, their the ones who make mistakes but they usually learn from them, so their always changing. But usually if you dig deep enough with characters like that, you can find their weakness. Because there is almost always something that you can tie the mistakes that they make to.
 But don't make the mistake of not giving them any bad behavior. I'm in the middle of a book right now, The Basket of Flowers, for school. It's a pretty good story, but, Mary is perfect. She won't lie even after she's been beaten, and her father's life is at stake as well as hers. She always puts others before herself, she asks for her father to be spared. And she is just so sweet. It kills us sinners after a while. NOBODY's perfect. Sure, Jesus was perfect and we look up to him. But he is fully GOD, and fully man. We are fully and completely man, we sin, it's in our nature, at least once in our lives we all sin. (let he who is without sin, cast the first stone, John 8:7) 

 So our characters need some sin, faults in their lives. And thru the book they will get better about controlling one or a few of those faults. If real humans aren't perfect we should our characters be?
 Don't get me wrong though, we don't want to be sinful, it's just who we are. But we need to fight against that sinful nature too, that is how our characters grow.

Here is a list that I've made, (Okay, so I only put in a couple of words. I got the rest from GTW) of faults for your characters.

                       

                                  
                    
                                          


                                                           Self-Righteous
                                                          Absent-minded

Antisocial

Bossy

Careless

Childish

Cocky

Cold

Controlling

Cutthroat

Dumb

Fake

Indecisive

Irresponsible

Judgmental

Lazy

Liar/dishonest/flatterer

Naïve

Nosy

Oblivious

Obsessive

Overbearing

Push-over

Pushy

Reckless

Rigid

Self-involved

Showy

Skittish

Stubborn

Timid

Too concerned with the opinions of others

Unforgiving

Weak

OR, good traits that are taken too far. Example: Easygoing can turn into oblivious.