This summer has been fantastic. I've just completed the week of the Summer Creative Writer's Camp and the participants showed excellent talent in writing fiction. I have a few manuscripts to send in to my publisher.
Nicholas and Alexis are coming by this weekend, bringing along their two jolly pets, a dachshund named Jack and a German Shepherd named Sam. These two will mix it up with our Sheltie Misty and the result is an ever-running circus around the house.
The Zockoll household anxiously await the court ruling on Jill's disability. We went into the court hearing and our lawyer said that it seemed to go well. Please pray with us about this - a favorable court ruling will help pay for a good number of bills.
Our Thursday night college Bible study has been a blast. Six college fellows, coming back from colleges around the region, gather and pore over the word. The first half of the evening is a direct study in Genesis, and maybe a few apologetic notes and some Koine Greek. The rest of the evening fills up with questions-and-answers time. I finally called it a night at 11 p.m. (We started at 6:30 p.m. but asked them to stay and fellowship in our fireplace room as long as they liked. peter said he finally got to bed at 4:30 a.m.
Wednesday night Koine Greek class at Oak Ridge Baptist Church is a joy as well. I have about a dozen adult students - and are they fast learners! The enthusiasm has brightened my soul. What a thirst for the Word! We're in John chapter 1 in our translation.
It's back to writing for the summer until school starts for me on August 9th. I have a couple of corporate accounts for which I'm writing - one includes an inventor, and it's quite intriguing. We've also had our first meeting of the Theta Chi Writers Guild here in Knoxville. We voted on officers - I am the president and that means I'll be getting things organized.
God has been so good to the Zockoll household. He's taken us through a year of especially hard trials... and to be able to breathe fresh air once again is a deep and satisfying joy.
One final note for today: you may find numerous articles on the web written by me, and some of them are bogus. A few writing services have stolen my name in order to 'beef up' their inventory of writers. I am dealing with a lawyer in order to fix this, so if you see articles on things like "Las Vegas" or "Breeding Alaskan Huskies", I must admit that I did not write those.
Brad Zockoll, Jill Zockoll, Peter Zockoll, and Julianne Zockoll thank you for your prayers and wish you a wonderful summer!
