Author: Geneva D

Lampstands: A Short Story

But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. —Revelation 2:4–5

Jason Sloboda, DDiv, pushed the squeaking old church door back on its hinges.  He stumbled backwards as the rank, musty air hit him.  It was worse even than he had expected.

He stepped inside, disturbing the dust of decades.  Cobwebs hung thickly in the corners and paint was peeling from the walls.  An old bulletin, coated in idle doodles, lay moldering on the vestry carpet.

Jason took it all in, seeing potential instead of problems.  Like a soldier reclaiming territory, he felt half-pierced by the neglected building, once a fortress of the kingdom of heaven—and half-triumphant to know that it was his now, to rebuild for his King.

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LEGO Vault (Commissioned Model)

Over the course of the years I’ve built castles, dragons, life-sized tools, pirate towns, windmills and waterwheels, you name it. But I’ve never built anything quite like this–a commission model of six stacks of servers, loaded with detail to recreate, like tiny computer screens, wires, and fans. And this isn’t just any server, either: this is The Vault, Sermon Audio’s new array for hosting over two million sermons and making them available for worldwide listening. Creating a LEGO replica of their achievement was both an honor and a challenge!

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Pilgrim’s Progress: A LEGO Saga

It’s been almost six months since I posted work-in-progress pictures of my family’s LEGO Pilgrim’s Progress collaboration. Fittingly, our progress has been slow, but it’s been sure, and we’ve finally taken the last picture, recorded the last piece of audio, and yes, even sorted the last brick (well, except for a few special figures and the sheep, which are sticking around for a while). So at long last we’re ready to present: The Pilgrim’s Progress, built out of LEGO bricks at about 5x minifigure scale!

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Pilgrim-in-Progress

Not sure I’ve done a work-in-progress post before, but there’s a first time for everything. And there could be no better first time than this, the biggest in-person collaboration I’ve ever organized. (If any of my siblings tell you they’re organizing it… they’re wrong.)

The collaboration started with an ambition to bring something eye catching to BrickWorld Chicago 2023. Beyond being eye catching, we also wanted our collaboration to be meaningful. So what better than the classic story of the Christian life, Pilgrim’s Progress? I’ll tell you what would be better… Pilgrim’s Progress, but at 3x minifigure scale!

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The Destruction of Laketown

Amid shrieks and wailing and the shouts of men Smaug came over Laketown. A hail of dark arrows leaped up and snapped and rattled on his scales, and their shafts fell back kindled by his breath.

Fire leaped from the dragon’s jaws. Down he swooped straight through the arrow-storm, reckless in his rage, seeking only to set their town ablaze.

Fire leaped from thatched roofs and wooden beam-ends as he hurtled down past and round again. Flames unquenchable sprang high into the night.

Still a company of archers held their ground among the burning houses. Their captain was Bard, grim-voiced and grim-faced. He shot with a great yew bow, till all his arrows but one were spent.

Then Bard drew his bow-string to his ear. The dragon was circling back, flying low.

“Arrow!” said the bowman. “Black arrow! If ever you came from the forges of the true king under the Mountain, go now and speed well!”

–Adapted from The Hobbit by Tolkien

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Book Review: Jan of the Windmill (by Juliana Horatia Ewing)

Jan tries hard to be a miller’s boy… but his natural talent for painting keeps shining through.   Yet wherever he goes and whatever success life brings to him, he’ll always remember his foster-family and always be proud of his “miller’s thumb.”

Jan of the Windmill is around the length of Anne of Green Gables or A Little Princess.

The story revolves around a young boy who eventually becomes a successful painter through his patience and hard work, but the writing style is not the simplest, so it’d probably be hard to follow for those younger than 11+.

You’ll find my brief conclusion and a link to the book if you skip to the end—or read on through if you want all the details!

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