One the workshops I attended today at the Midwest Writers Conference was about the mystery novel. The presenter's name was Terrance Faherty, a mystery writer from Indianapolis. I learned a lot about a genre I seldom read. But it was what he said about the kind of ending that makes for an excellent reading experience. The ending of a well-written mystery novel "sends a shockwave that runs back through all you have read and changes the way you see everything. All the pieces come together in a satisfying way."
As a Christian I immediately thought of one aspect of my eternal hope. I Corinthians 13:12 says that when a believer sees Jesus in the next life one of the experiences will be "knowing fully, even as we are fully known." Can we see God has the writer of the mystery we are living and that faith means that we live every day in quiet certainty that we will have the joy of seeing in a moment how everything contributes to our happy ending/new beginning?
"Behold, I am making all things new!"
And our story continues.
As a Christian I immediately thought of one aspect of my eternal hope. I Corinthians 13:12 says that when a believer sees Jesus in the next life one of the experiences will be "knowing fully, even as we are fully known." Can we see God has the writer of the mystery we are living and that faith means that we live every day in quiet certainty that we will have the joy of seeing in a moment how everything contributes to our happy ending/new beginning?
"Behold, I am making all things new!"
And our story continues.
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