📖 🏺 We are Clay and Dust 🌄

by | Nov 3, 2025 | ScrollKeepers Community News

Dear Reader–

A faith-building thought for the day:

Death reminds us that we are creatures.
Yet as fearsome as death is, it is nothing compared with meeting a holy God.
When we encounter him, the totality of our creatureliness breaks upon us and shatters the myth that we have believed about ourselves, the myth that we are demigods, junior-grade deities who will try to live forever.
RC Sproul

My prayer for you is that you will be overwhelmed by the holiness of God.

Lord, you have been our dwelling place
in all generations.
Before the mountains were brought forth,
or ever you had formed the earth and the world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

You return man to dust
and say, “Return, O children of man!”

Psalm 90:1-3

And that in that overwhelm, you will draw near to know him in all He is…Because not only is He the holy God who made us. He took on flesh and came to redeem us from that inevitable death.

And He remains as our place of refuge–our comfort, our dwelling place.

God bless you,

Darlene

TO UNSUBSCRIBE from these 2025 Kickstarter REMINDERS (and the KS special bonus ALERTS) Click here

See related content:

More from Darlene

🎶 Book Mobile

🎶 Book Mobile

From the Desk of Darlene N. Böcek Faith-building Sci-fi Fantasy Stories Dear friend, Just a quick message this week. I hope you are well. I’m neck-deep in revisions for Me, Myself, and IT. Pray for me. This week I experienced a cool interconnection of real life and fiction when my husband introduced a new song to the church congregation. Kyrie Eleison. It’s so beautiful! I will record it and share it in the upcoming weeks. If you don’t know, the phrase means, Lord have mercy in Greek. The…

🎶 Whisper Hope 🥰 Tournament Round 1 🏁

🎶 Whisper Hope 🥰 Tournament Round 1 🏁

From the Desk of Darlene N. Böcek Faith-building Sci-fi Fantasy Stories Dear friend, I hope you had a great Easter. I was born on Palm Sunday, and this year Palm Sunday was a day before my birthday. It’s a fun thing to have a birthday near Easter. I hope you had a chance to read Memento Mori message from last week. Get some tissues. This week begins the Theme Song Tournament…. Whisper Hope Tournament I wrote a song for the upcoming CrossFall trilogy. It’s called Whisper Hope (aka Deep Calls…

🌄 ☠️ Easter: Memento Mori 🌅

🌄 ☠️ Easter: Memento Mori 🌅

From the Desk of Darlene N. Böcek Faith-building Sci-fi Fantasy Stories Happy Easter Reader ! He is risen…indeed! Death Where is thy Sting? My hard-to-find novel, Tim Reynolds, Detective: The Death of Noah Black takes place in Portsmouth, Maine. The choice of location stems from a tragedy that happened there in 1798 that impacted my life permanently. It was the loss of parents Temperance and Seth Walker. I did a bunch of research when I first heard their story–and some day I have a mind to…