by Emma Jayne

Emma has been saying for quite awhile that her dream is to be an author one day. She loves to read and she actually has written a few books for us at the house that I thought were actually kinda cute. She made a whole series of books for us for Christmas called "The Armor of God". It's about a brother and sister named Rachel & Levi and it goes through their mishaps of being kids and how each piece of the Whole Armor of God is used to teach them real life lessons. Things like truth, salvation, the Word, etc. I have actually been really impressed with her desire and creativity. I am also impressed at how much Biblical knowledge she actually is learning, (He is definitely showing grace on our parenting skills).

When we went up to Seattle I was looking through the Vision Forum catalog and noticed that there was a writing contest that went with the cover picture. Make up a story that relates to the picture on the cover of their catalog and you could win $1,000. I thought Emma might enjoy that so she took off writing and about 1/2 an hour later her story was written. Here is the cover that goes with the story.....

And here is her story.......

The Knight and The Princess

by Emma Jayne

Once upon a time there was a Princess named Cassie, a Knight named Michael, and a King named John. One day the King heard that there was a dragon in the Kingdom. He called his bravest men and said, “There is a dragon in the Kingdom you need to defeat it!”

Princess Cassie heard this and said, “I’ll go too.”

“NO, NO, NO”, said King John, but before he could convince her to stay she was out the door.

The King called Michael and said, “My daughter went out with the men, you need to go get her, she’s probably there by now.” Michael agreed.

When Michael got there he saw that the dragon was holding the princess in his hands. Then he had an idea, he would climb the dragon. He stuck his sword through the dragon’s leg, and began to climb up to the top of the dragon’s head. Once he was there he saw a rope, Michael poked the dragon in the chest, got the rope and caught the Princess. They swung back and forth and landed.

When they got home they told the whole story to the king. The king told Michael to kneel down in front of him. Michael knelt down and King John kindly said “I declare you my cleverest and bravest knight in the whole kingdom.” Twenty years later Princess Cassie and the Kingdom’s greatest Knight Sir Michael were married……..

and they lived happily ever after

THE END

I really hope she wins but we have prepared her that there are lots of entries and we'll just have to wait and see. She really does love to write which is why she has her own blog. Sorry, not giving the address here, gotta protect my children ;))