I longed to make things, ships, houses, engines.

Many sheets of cardboard and pairs of scissors I spoiled, only to turn from my hopeless failures in tears.

I was driven to write stories instead.

Little dreaming to what a world of happiness I was being admitted.

You can do more with a castle and a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

This is Pints with Jack, season seven, episode 30.

Narnia Month, the Inkwell Chronicles.

After hours with J.D. P. P. Body.

Welcome everyone. Here on Pinesper Jack, we're reading our way through the works of C.S. Lewis,

and we are currently in Narnia Month.

And today we're actually not going to be, at least not directly referencing

a Narnian Chronicle, but something that is very much within the spirit of Narnia.

Today I'm talking with JDP Body about his book, The Inquil Chronicles.

And we're going to discover the importance and power of ink in this discussion, which is why

today's opening quotation was from Surprise by Joy, where Jack describes his own discovery

of the power of ink, how superior it can be to using cardboard and glue to build something.

No, ink is much more powerful.

And Jeff Peabody is the founding pastor of New Day Church in Federal Way, Washington.

He is a husband and father of three grown children.

He is the author of Perfectly Suted, the Armor of God for the Anxious Mind,

but also of a middle-grade

fantasy series featuring the Inklings, which we'll be discussing today, The Inkwell Chronicles.

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