Ten ways to Love

I remember a few years ago reading The 5 Love Languages and being so excited to learn about the ways in which we express love and read expressions of love so we feel loved. ( I highly recommend this book to any couple it will open new avenues and broaden your understanding)
A few days ago on Facebook I came across this list and as I read it again today I realized that I had shifted my focus to expressing love via the love languages and had not used the tools available in the Word to express love more deeply and fully in my day to day activities.

I wanted to share it with you because it is a list of love in ACTION. Love is not a noun it's a verb. I like this list because it is taken from all over the word. 
10 Ways to love

1. Listen without interrupting (Proverbs 18:13)
2. Speak without accusing (James1:19)                     
3. Give without sparing. (Proverbs 21:26)
4. Pray without ceasing. (Colossians 1:9)
5. Answer without arguing. (Proverbs 17:1)
6. Share without pretending. (Ephesians 4:15)
7. Enjoy without complaint. (Philippians 2:14)
8. Trust without wavering (1 Corinthians 13:7)
9. Forgive without punishing. (Colossians 3:13)
10. Promise without forgetting. (Proverbs 13:12)

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1 Corinthians 13 says love expresses itself this way:

1. Be patient (verse 4)
2. Be Kind (verse 4)
3. Not envious (verse 4)
4. Be modest and quiet. (verse 4)
5. Is polite and respectful (verse 5)
6. Forgives and keeps no record of wrongs. (verse 5)
7. Rejoices in truth (verse 6)
8. It protects (verse 7)
9. It Trusts and is ready to believe the best of every person (verse 7)
10. It perseveres. (verse 7)

Making this list has encouraged and equipped me.  I have been feeling very weary of keeping on keeping on in a situation and I see that love perseveres.  I feel like I have many more tools in my toolbox available to me now.

How do you express love in your day to day living ? What do you use as your plumb line and guide ?

Blessings

Genre and Sub Genre {Myster / Crime} 5/5

Welcome to day 5 of Genre and Sub Genre.  I was poking around at the host blog for 52 Books in 52 Weeks and discovered an interesting page about genre and sub genre.  I have always wondered what the different genre classifications were  in books so wanted to share them here with you.

There are 5 categories so will share one a day this week.

• Romance
• Horror
• Thriller / Suspense
• Science Fiction / Fantasy
• Mystery / Crime

Genre and Sub Genre categories

Mystery/Crime

1. Amateur Detective: a mystery solved by an amateur, who generally has some profession or affiliation that provides ready access to information about the crime.
2. Child in Peril: a mystery involving the abduction or persecution of a child.
3. Classic Whodunit: a crime that is solved by a detective, from the detective’s point of view, with all clues available to the reader.
4. Comic (Bumbling Detective): a mystery played for laughs, often featuring a detective who is grossly unskilled (but often solves the crime anyway, owing to tremendous good luck).
5. Cozy: a mystery that takes place in a small town—sometimes in a single home—where all the suspects are present and familiar with one another, except the detective, who is usually an eccentric outsider.
6. Courtroom Drama: a mystery that takes place through the justice system—often the efforts of a defense attorney to prove the innocence of his client by finding the real culprit.
7. Dark Thriller: a mystery that ventures into the fear factor and graphic violence of the horror genre.
8. Espionage: the international spy novel—here based less on action than on solving the “puzzle”—is today less focused on the traditional enemy spies than on terrorists.
9. Forensic: a mystery solved through the forensics lab, featuring much detail and scientific procedure.
10. Heists and Capers: an “antihero” genre which focuses on the planning and execution of a crime, told from the criminal’s perspective.
11. Historical: a mystery that takes place in a specific, recognizable period of history, with much emphasis on the details of the setting.
12. Inverted: a story in which the reader knows “whodunit,” but the suspense arises from watching the detective figure it out.
13. Locked Room: a mystery in which the crime is apparently committed under impossible circumstances (but eventually elicits a rational explanation).
14. Medical: generally involving a medical threat (e.g., a viral epidemic), or the illegitimate use of medical technology.
15. Police Procedural: a crime solved from the perspective of the police, following detailed, real-life procedures.
16. Private Detective: Focused on the independent snoop-for-hire, these have evolved from tough-guy “hard-boiled” detectives to the more professional operators of today.
17. Psychological Suspense: mysteries focused on the intricacies of the crime and what motivated the perpetrator to commit them.
18. Romantic: a mystery in which the crime-solvers fall in love.
19. Technothriller: a spinoff from the traditional thriller mystery, with an emphasis on high technology.
20. Thriller: a suspense mystery with a wider—often international—scope and more action.
21. Woman in Jeopardy: focuses on a woman put into peril by a crime, and her struggles to overcome or outwit the perpetrator.
22. Young Adult: a story aimed at a teenage audience, with a hero detective generally the same age or slightly older than the reader, pursuing criminals who are generally less violent—but often just as scary—as those in adult mysteries.

Thank you to Writers Digest and 52 books in 52 weeks for the sub genre breakdown
Blessings

Genre and Sub Genre {Science Fiction / Fantasy} 4/5

Welcome to day 4 of Genre and Sub Genre.  I was poking around at the host blog for 52 Books in 52 Weeks and discovered an interesting page about genre and sub genre.  I have always wondered what the different genre classifications were  in books so wanted to share them here with you.

There are 5 categories so will share one a day this week.

• Romance
• Horror
• Thriller / Suspense
• Science Fiction / Fantasy
• Mystery / Crime

Genre and Sub Genre categories

Science Fiction/Fantasy

1. Alternate History: speculative fiction that changes the accepted account of actual historical events, often featuring a profound “what if?” premise.
2. Arthurian Fantasy: reworkings of the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
3. Bangsian Fantasy: stories speculating on the afterlives of famous people.
4. Biopunk: a blend of film noir, Japanese anime and post-modern elements used to describe an underground, nihilistic biotech society.
5. Children’s Fantasy: a kinder, gentler style of fantasy aimed at very young readers.
6. Comic: fantasy or science fiction that spoofs the conventions of the genre, or the conventions of society.
7. Cyberpunk: stories featuring tough outsiders in a high-tech near-future where computers have produced major changes in society.
8. Dark Fantasy: tales that focus on the nightmarish underbelly of magic, venturing into the violence of horror novels.
9. Dystopian: stories that portray a bleak future world.
10. Erotic: SF or fantasy tales that focus on sexuality.
11. Game-Related Fantasy: tales with plots and characters similar to high fantasy, but based on a specific role-playing game like Dungeons and Dragons.
12. Hard Science Fiction: tales in which real present-day science is logically extrapolated to the future.
13. Heroic Fantasy: stories of war and its heroes, the fantasy equivalent of military science fiction.
14. High/Epic Fantasy: tales with an emphasis on the fate of an entire race or nation, often featuring a young “nobody” hero battling an ultimate evil.
15. Historical: speculative fiction taking place in a recognizable historical period.
16. Mundane SF: a movement that spurns fanciful conceits like warp drives, wormholes and faster-than-light travel for stories based on scientific knowledge as it actually exists.
17. Military SF: war stories that extrapolate existing military technology and tactics into the future.
18. Mystery SF: a cross-genre blend that can be either an SF tale with a central mystery or a classic whodunit with SF elements.
19. Mythic Fiction: stories inspired, or modeled on, classic myths, legends and fairy tales.
20. New Age: a category of speculative fiction that deals with occult subjects such as astrology, psychic phenomena, spiritual healing, UFOs and mysticism.
21. Post-Apocalyptic: stories of life on Earth after an apocalypse, focusing on the struggle to survive.
22. Romance: speculative fiction in which romance plays a key part.
23. Religious: centering on theological ideas, and heroes who are ruled by their religious beliefs.
24. Science Fantasy: a blend in which fantasy is supported by scientific or pseudo-scientific explanations.
25. Social SF: tales that focus on how characters react to their environments Ð including social satire.
26. Soft SF: tales based on the more subjective, “softer” sciences: psychology, sociology, anthropology, etc.
27. Space Opera: a traditional good guys/bad guys faceoff with lots of action and larger-than-life characters.
28. Spy-Fi: tales of espionage with SF elements, especially the use of high-tech gadgetry.
29. Steampunk: a specific type of alternate history in which characters in Victorian England have access to 20th century technology.
30. Superheroes: stories featuring characters endowed with superhuman strengths or abilities.
31. Sword and Sorcery: a classic genre often set in the medieval period, and more concerned with immediate physical threats than high or heroic fantasy.
32. Thriller SF: an SF story that takes on the classic world-at-risk, cliffhanger elements of a thriller.
33. Time-Travel: stories based on the concept of moving forward or backward in time, often delving into the existence of parallel worlds.
34. Urban Fantasy: a fantasy tale in which magical powers and characters appear in an otherwise normal modern context, similar to Latin American magical realism.
35. Vampire: variations on the classic vampire legend, recently taking on many sexual and romantic variations.
36. Wuxia: fantasy tales set within the martial arts traditions and philosophies of China.
37. Young Adult: speculative fiction aimed at a teenage audience, often featuring a hero the same age or slightly older than the reader.

Thank you to Writers Digest and 52 books in 52 weeks for the sub genre breakdown

Blessings