Zeal

While it's available without any email or signup needed - for free, public domain even - on my website, dcvkl.com/zeal, I include Zeal here - on a platform with a sliding payment mechanism - so that those who find value in it and who'd like to contribute, may. Review financials first.

I make this book available as a public domain gift though because 1) I believe it, 2) this book would not come into being without the Lord's insight and prompting so I really don't feel I can take credit for it, 3) I believe those who want to steal it will and the only ones held back by a copyright notice would be the ones whose projects should not have legal barricades blocking them, 4) I've read/listened to hundreds of books that I have not paid for - Libby and Hoopla through the local libraries are incredible resources. Although I personally cannot afford to pay for multiple books a week, somebody paid for them and I am incredibly grateful and forever indebted to the local library system for this since this would be a very, very different book without their influence.

While I've switch to other projects when the inspiration hits, Zeal has been the labor of love I can't let go of. As I explain within a prayer within the book itself:

The only childhood career castle in the air I’ve brought with me into adulthood was to be an author, but although it has been a constant companion, I haven’t been adamant about it - actually I often avowed the antithesis.

But a zeal for You, yes, but also for announcing Your attendance at our anytime affairs to anyone with the ability to be alert, has astonished me with its adeptness at apprehending my attention.
After all this time I’ve adhered to Your axioms, I have a better appreciation of the biblical author’s aim in asserting “Zeal for Your house consumes me”.  As they did; I’ll bring alliteration, the books I’ve been studying, anything accessible to adore You always.
Call me to continue despite the doubt and erratic fear of earning the fury of those that feel that every display of devotion to a Deity should be demure and contained in bowed aspects.  

After all, this is art and
art can be dulia. 

Colorful designs can, in the course of the deliberate exercise, enhance instead of displace conversation because I can’t be apathetic about anything - all apophthegms are brooded over; acrostics ably chosen.
I don’t discern that I’m cheating in the “Correct Courses of Communication with a Completely Better than Anybody else Supreme Being” category by allowing a bizarre brainchild to crystallize into a song to share.I don’t see this as silly, superfluous, or stubbornly spurious.  I take my time because time is of the essence, not despite that essential detail.
To an extent, of course I’m delaying contributing to critical battles by concentrating on this book and I’m aware that it isn’t beneficial to creatively birth artwork without allowing it to affect anything in or around me because that would be akin to the banging on cymbals described in the dire “don’t-do-this” about engaging in endeavors without the force of Godly, holy, irreplaceably just, 1 Corinthians kind of love.
It’s ok that this kind of stream-of-consciousness is uncommon, crucial even, but I can’t call it quits. I’m ok that it couldn’t be brought into being in a couple of days; neither could Evicted, Dreamland, The Chickenshit Club, Smacked, Beating Back the Devil, Black Edge, The Daughters of Kobani, The Inheritance, or Jason Hardy’s The Second Chance Club: Hardship and Hope After Prison.

How incredibly grateful I am for these and the hundreds more just as harrowing, hard, and illuminating that I could include that have inspired how I interpret this incongruous globe. Their gall in going at hard issues gives me hope.
I’m jealous of the confidence of a journalist - of their concentration and commitment and linear methods and mechanisms - but they lead me to likewise look to call out sections of society that should be boldly corrected with discernment, with careful criticism carved by the cross-section of careful study of conceptualizations and circumstances.

Would critiques be directed by Your
definitions of inevitable vs. feasible.

Fill me with a gleeful faith that galvanizes not only I but individuals honing governments and homes and institutions to give a forceful eviction directive to the damaging customs of the conventional systems.

May you be blessed by engaging with this weird words workout, slowly, carefully, prayerfully, in a posture of gratitude and repentance. It's not an easy book, but I pray you'd grow to appreciate why and that it builds up in you the wisdom and boldness Paul speaks of in Eph. 6:19-20 - "Pray for me also, that whenever I open my mouth, words may be given me so that I may fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel..."

May the mystery of the gospel become clearer to you. God bless (the Beatitudes version!)