Comments on: Guest Blogger: Susan Forshey http://www.kimberleeconwayireton.net/2009/11/guest-blogger-susan-forshey/ is the author of THE CIRCLE OF SEASONS: MEETING GOD IN THE CHURCH YEAR (InterVarsity). She blogs about the 3R's: reading, writing, and raising her four children. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:56:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mary VE http://www.kimberleeconwayireton.net/2009/11/guest-blogger-susan-forshey/comment-page-1/#comment-694 Mary VE Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:07:50 +0000 http://www.kimberleeconwayireton.net/?p=857#comment-694 Great post! I also very much enjoyed the description of Susan at the top! Great post! I also very much enjoyed the description of Susan at the top!

]]> By: Steven Lympus http://www.kimberleeconwayireton.net/2009/11/guest-blogger-susan-forshey/comment-page-1/#comment-676 Steven Lympus Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:02:37 +0000 http://www.kimberleeconwayireton.net/?p=857#comment-676 Great post, Susan! I'm putting this on my list...Peace, SL Great post, Susan! I’m putting this on my list…Peace, SL

]]> By: Kimberlee http://www.kimberleeconwayireton.net/2009/11/guest-blogger-susan-forshey/comment-page-1/#comment-659 Kimberlee Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:12:51 +0000 http://www.kimberleeconwayireton.net/?p=857#comment-659 Amen! I too struggle to reconcile my love of beauty and my vocation as a writer with the Christian call to justice. One of the books that did for me what <em>Faith of the Fallen</em> did for you is Jeffrey Overstreet's <em>Cyndere's Midnight</em>. It's a fantasy novel, too, in which Overstreet shows the power of beauty to transform and redeem. The lush lyricism and beauty of the prose, together with the story itself, helped me believe a little more that art and beauty are useful because they are (or can be) transformative. Of course, on my best days, I see that they don't have to be useful. On those days, I see that beauty is enough simply because it is beautiful. Oh for more such days! Amen! I too struggle to reconcile my love of beauty and my vocation as a writer with the Christian call to justice. One of the books that did for me what Faith of the Fallen did for you is Jeffrey Overstreet’s Cyndere’s Midnight. It’s a fantasy novel, too, in which Overstreet shows the power of beauty to transform and redeem. The lush lyricism and beauty of the prose, together with the story itself, helped me believe a little more that art and beauty are useful because they are (or can be) transformative.

Of course, on my best days, I see that they don’t have to be useful. On those days, I see that beauty is enough simply because it is beautiful. Oh for more such days!

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