Vol. 21.3
By John W. Vander Velden
3-26-2021
Friends,
Another month nears its
conclusion. The days of March have rushed by and April looms very near.
As does Easter.
What does the holiday
mean to you? I think each of us needs to ask ourselves that question...the
meaning of Easter. My life, during this Lenten season, has been too busy to
have spent forty days of self-examination, likely yours has as well. But it
would have been good for me to do so. To look at myself a little deeper and
focus a little harder on my own relationship with the divine.
But my memories of Easter
are as old as I and as varied as the man that sits today at this particular
keyboard. Memories of my childhood, of sunny Sunday’s and snowy ones as well.
Of family, large and loud. Of Church services with overflowing sanctuaries.
That doesn’t happen so
much anymore.
I remember one particular
Easter season...the one of my confirmation. Those memories have dimmed little
in the fifty-six years that have passed. I remember other Easters, of other
families, of other significance. These days I miss most the Easters of my son’s
youth. The reflection of the day’s magnificence in his eyes. Yes, Easter means
a great deal to me. Not only the day on the calendar, or the memories, or the
Church services, but what Easter means...
It is my hope that Easter
carries such a significance to you as well...
Now for just a bit of
writing news.
I will be renaming the
book on which I am currently working. I’ll hold my title ideas “close to the
vest” for now. Nearly two months into this
editorial revise finds me struggling. I plod onward page by page hoping to find
a balance soon. All I can tell you is that this set of revisions will take more
time than I had originally anticipated. Is that good or bad? Time, friends,
will tell. Fact is I never intended to write a third book in the Misty Creek series, or at least not this
third book. Perhaps that is why I labor so diligently. I must make this volume
worthy of my reader’s expectations. That’s a high bar and I am not certain I
have the skills to clear that altitude.
I find there are times I
am not completely pleased with the
changes I have made. But, I remind myself, the book is a work in progress. So I
take one bite and chew on it until it seems little more than mush, then go on
to the next. I hope to finish Part 1 next week, and then push forward...always
forward.
I have no idea when it
will be finished, so stay tuned.
So I will close today
with just a few final words.
God keep you and yours
safe...today...tomorrow...and always. And I wish you a blessed Easter and a
fantastic spring.
John
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