“Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see”- William Newton Clarke

Her hand was shaking as she held the pen.  She started the letter once, but saw how the letters looked almost as nervous as she felt herself, crumpled it up, and started over.   There was no time for eloquence, for thinking out how to phrase things perfectly.  ( Read more... )

Don't let the prophecies, ancient or modern, trap you in a box of fear and futility. Change the dance by becoming the light that you are, the light that continues through and beyond the box into the adventure of forever. -Ruth Ryden
Miria's attention wasn't on the the events circulating around the Cleveland party.   She had felt true sorrow at ( Read more... )

Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are-  Allan K. Chalmers

It had been building slowly, subtly, over the past few months, perhaps the past few years, perhaps even longer.  While she cared greatly for Faith, her local Bishop, for Kenzie who she served and loved, Abuelita Rosa, the other Sanctified in her family, she could no longer lie ( Read more... )

She  saw a large house, empty and devoid seemingly of life.  As she turned to the left, she heard a child singing a strange lullaby that sent chills down her spine.  Looking over, she saw a little girl sitting on a wooden swing, moving back and for and going higher and higher, her shape changing to a dark winged angel with talons that drip blood.  ( Read more... )

A few nights later, she sat quietly in the meditation room she commonly spent the first hour in or so upon waking.   As she fell into her prayers, her mind's eye began to see...

There is another stretch of highway, with signs this time heading towards Cleveland.  She was obviously seeing this through through someone else's eyes, and she was not ( Read more... )

 Miria dreamed.

She saw a highway stretching out before her, long and boring.  As she nears the top of a hill, she sees a city below it, filled with skyscrapers and tall buildings.  In one moment, there is a flash of it being thriving, busy, a nightscape of lights against the darkness. There is no moon tonight, an obvious sign of the New Moon.  In ( Read more... )

She really hadn't seen it coming.   Cecil's reign had been stable and almost always peaceful in terms of courtly politics.    In fact, the last major scandal had been only two weeks prior, with Jean Luc's disasterous and clumsy attempt, again, at challenging the praxis.   While his end wasn't plainly announced, it was clear enough that they would ( Read more... )

In the beginning of the Court's formation, they had fought against Jacques, and thought he had died by being hit with a train.  They were wrong ( Read more... )

She'd been riding with Mercury when they felt a sudden *THUD*  on the roof of the car.     Not again!  The serial diablerist had attacked them once before already,  that time tearing the door from her own car in an attempt to grab them for a quick meal.    Miria had no idea how he had emerged from the spirit world, no idea how he had even woken up ( Read more... )

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