As long as one person still lives, this moment can’t be all there is to life. As companion to God, one person can repair the world, one person can save the world, one person can create the world, and one person can guarantee the future. Understand – I am the one person on whom God depends. So are You.
Just a Thought 13
Image Earth from space courtesy: NASA
Sharon Lynne Bonin-Pratt began her writing career the way so many others have done: by first doing everything else. Winning entries in grade school art, story, and essay contests convinced her to become a writer, but the real world intruded in adulthood and demanded she pay bills, raise kids, be a contributing member of the community. Along that rutted path she worked in the commercial art field designing patterns for surfer shorts, bikinis, and Hawaiian style shirts, taught after-school art through a city recreation program, and structured an art curriculum for three private schools. Ten years ago the writing muse, struggling to breathe in letters to friends and art articles, found its way to the surface. In a two-week period Shari wrote 60 pages of her first historical novel, and didn’t stop for three years. By then a second book demanded paper – OK, computer space – and now the third is in final revision stage. Of course, final revision is two words with a long shadow and a little footprint. Some folk claim they will write when the floors get vacuumed, the family accounting completed, the new garden planted. Shari is proof that all those things can be successfully ignored but not the urge to write. Her fiction explores human relationships, revenge, rage, forgiveness, redemption, and all the labyrinthine quandaries that mess up otherwise perfect lives. She resides in Southern California with her husband who’s learned to vacuum but not to cook. And the garden needs help.
Sharon Bonin-Pratt's Ink Flare 
Comments on: "World" (10)
Ah the responsibility.
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We are all part and all of equal importance.
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Well said, Shari!
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Thank you, Jenna.
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Indeed we are his arms and legs here on EArth!
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And the action, I believe.
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Wow, what a strong and deep statement you made. There is no place to hide but take on our responsibility and accept we are more than a shrinking violet.
Thanks
miriam
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I like the way you put that, Miriam.
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Couldn’t agree more. It is our earth and each and everyone of us has an obligation to take on the responsibility of caring for it and protecting it and sadly repairing it.
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Absolutely, we must.
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