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Excerpt from my first novel! - Don't Be a LOOGIE!!!


I am working on editing my first novel.  I am very excited about publishing it, and very blessed to have someone much better that I am at grammar, who checked it for me.  Reading through it, I loved this part.  Sometimes I forget that God doesn’t want us to be a loogie!  So you are now going to be able to read an excerpt from my book… 

 Megan and I sat down and took inventory of the night and decided that we needed a girlie night.  We painted our toenails, talked about boys.  We talked about Paul, and a new guy that she met on the plane.  Oh Megan- she believed in Jesus but instead of walking the “straight and narrow” she preferred the wide and easy.  It had been a sensitive topic between us for years.  I would quote scripture to her and she would come back with God is a loving God and His son died for our sins- he died anyway, so why not live it up? The conversation usually went like this:

 “Well Megs….  If you were to be in a court of law and had to account for all the bad stuff that you have done in your life but you stood up and just said, you know I am sorry and you are a good guy so let me off with out any punishment, do you think that the judge, a good judge, a fair judge would let you off?”

 To which she would respond: “I think that he would, because I am Megan – woman extraordinaire- but in reality, I know Jesus died for my sins, he just had to die a little harder for mine than yours.

“I am not saying that I am holier than you or anything like that Megs,’ I would     continue, “but lets look at it this way – you break the law- You have known the law all your life and you break the law- then the Judge pardons you, and you go and break the law again.  The Judge decides to give you another chance- but then you go and break the law AGAIN.  By now the Judge is saying to himself, do you understand the law, do you really think that I am a good Judge?  Do you really love that judge?  Revelations 3:16 says ‘ so, because you are lukewarm – neither hot nor cold – I am about to spit you out of my mouth’ Megs- I don’t want you to be a loogie!!!”

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